Methodology Of Testing In Flight Line For Production A/Cs In A400M Program

Jorge Caballero Escribano, A400M Systems Engineer at AYESA AIR CONTROL, Sevilla, Spain

Abstract

A400M production aircrafts (A/C) are being tested every day in Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Sevilla at Flight Line (FL) and Delivery Centre (DC) by flight test engineers (FTE) and crew, and they are required to have demonstrated their design requirements, both mechanical and A/Cs systems. Much of this demonstration is provided by testing statics checks, and testing the full capacity of this A/C during operations, as engines run (ER), taxi or flights, among others.

These tests generate snags that must be investigated on ground by ground test engineers (GTE) and provide a final solution or corrective action to solve these defects. During this investigation, several adversities are found like a complex worksharing, difficulties classifying defects and working with non planned work. Using MSN24 as object of study, the best choice to approach this is having a good methodology of testing on ground, and an own repository of corrective actions, that will generate improvement in time execution, facing non planned jobs and respecting the worksharing of the production organization.