Rustom D. Sutaria – Avia Intelligence, Dubai, UAE 2017 Recent political and economic uncertainty, has resulted in training and consultancy activities either falling to the bottom of the list of things that need to be sorted out, or being removed from the list altogether.  Most training and consultancy businesses (not least aviation) tend to separate these services to create individually […]

Rustom D. Sutaria – Avia Intelligence, Dubai, 2016 Having completed a number of reliability courses on behalf of Sofema, and advised on reliability programme development, the author is frequently asked about the challenge of low levels of reliability data, and whether there are enough data points in order to produce an adequate analysis. The biggest concern amongst reliability engineers is […]

Rustom D. Sutaria – Avia Intelligence, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2018 SCENARIO: The organisation that has been awarded the contract is responsible for complying with all requirements that are associated with the contracted activity. Example: The operator awards a contract to an Approved Maintenance Organisation including the responsibility of certification of aircraft and components.  There is a serious limitation to a contracted […]