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EHM-1459 Jonny:
I am wondering if is it at all possible to have a repair team that flys to various destinations when an aircraft is in need of repair. Here is my idea...pilot has any kind of problem and reports it in a forum or a new entry box in the PIREP form. The EH repair team then flies to the place where the aircraft is decides whether or not they can fix it on the spot, if it needs to be flown to the nearest hub, or if it needs to be dismantled and/or thrown away. If the aircraft can be fixed on the spot, it is flown back to the nearest hub. However, if it cannot be repaired on the spot and needs to return to a hub for repairs the pilot sets in certain failures to occur according to what the problem is. EX. If the pilot reports an altimeter failure, then the repair pilot sets in an altimeter failure to occur during the flight. The only thing I have not figured out is what aircraft would be used and how to submit for a PIREP. Most likely a special form would have to be used where you enter your departure ICAO and arrival ICAO because it would be hard to match the flights up with flight numbers.
Thanks a million,
Jonny

EHM-0962 Zhen Yi:
Sounds reasonably easy to implement if you are just talking about repair pilots flying to the airfield where the aircraft broke down.......but for the repair pilot to fly the broken plane back to the hub with a broken altimeter etc sounds rather unrealistic and dangerous :o

Personally i think that having the repair pilot fly to the destination airport and back would be good enough. Of course the plane used for the transport would depend on what kind of accident there has been. If there has been a crash then maybe a huge transport plane in the maintenance livery or if it's only a broken gauge then a helicopter or small plane bringing in the parts

So what do you guys think?

EHM-0361 Karsten:
I have seen this at some other VA's, so I have an idea of what it is you are talking about.
But are we talking about adding another division to the airline or what?
Is the flights surpose to be flown with a/c from the pressent fleet, or should they have there own fleet?
How will the flights be posted is it as special missions or..?

EHM-0744 Alex:
Maybe implemenented into the cargo division...

EHM-1001 Robert:
Perhaps I am not right, but I think in reality brakedowns are repaired by the local airports crew, and not the airlines own crew.

If we think over it, we could use a cargo plane, or search a scheduled flight to the destination and put the crew on that plane that heading there. So maybe a separate plane is not needed. But, if I think the most horrible failure probably an engine failure, then a BAE146 must be able to carry another one for any airplanes.

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