An A320 captain reported that a newly published maintenance document composed of maintenance error c...

Narrative:

We had several write-ups for discrepancies that had occurred during the flight. When we pulled out the maintenance error code document we noticed; first; that it was brand new and; second; there were significant misprints throughout the entire document. The most glaring were the cabin maintenance reporting page and the class ii maintenance messages page. Both of these pages were completely unusable. Codes were present; but no descriptions of the codes; just symbols and letters. On further inspection of the manual; numerous page headers were also misprinted throughout the entire manual. We wrote up the manual as unusable.upon our arrival another maintenance error code document was brought to the aircraft and it had the exact same problems as the one already on the plane. Maintenance said they were only responsible for ensuring the manual was on the aircraft; not the content. I notified the next captain of the problem and then called and notified the duty flight manager as well. He told me to go to system control at the domicile and talk to the flight operations representative; which I did. We examined the manual together.I believe that an operational bulletin needs to be initiated to warn crew of the deficiency of the manual and that the existing copies need to be retrieved and destroyed. I wonder how many of our other fleet's maintenance error code documents suffer from the same problem.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An A320 Captain reported that a newly published maintenance document composed of maintenance error codes for aircraft system AML write-ups was replete with misprints and unusable formats. He suggested they need to be destroyed and replaced.

Narrative: We had several write-ups for discrepancies that had occurred during the flight. When we pulled out the maintenance error code document we noticed; first; that it was brand new and; second; there were significant misprints throughout the entire document. The most glaring were the cabin maintenance reporting page and the Class II Maintenance messages page. Both of these pages were completely unusable. Codes were present; but no descriptions of the codes; just symbols and letters. On further inspection of the manual; numerous page headers were also misprinted throughout the entire manual. We wrote up the manual as unusable.Upon our arrival another maintenance error code document was brought to the aircraft and it had the exact same problems as the one already on the plane. Maintenance said they were only responsible for ensuring the manual was on the aircraft; not the content. I notified the next Captain of the problem and then called and notified the Duty Flight Manager as well. He told me to go to System Control at the domicile and talk to the flight operations representative; which I did. We examined the manual together.I believe that an operational bulletin needs to be initiated to warn crew of the deficiency of the manual and that the existing copies need to be retrieved and destroyed. I wonder how many of our other fleet's maintenance error code documents suffer from the same problem.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	981804
Time
Date	201111
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Parked
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Other Documentation
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Total 17000 Flight Crew Type 6300
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe

An A320 captain reported that a newly published maintenance document composed of maintenance error codes for aircraft system aml write-ups was replete with misprints and unusable formats. He suggested they need to be destroyed and replaced.