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TECHNICAL AIRWORTHINESS MANAGEMENT MANUAL

SECTION 3 LEAFLET 13

TECHNICAL AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVES

Applicable Regulations: 1.1.5 Authoritative Airworthiness Advice

INTRODUCTION 1. Technical Airworthiness Directives (TADs) are issued by DGTA in accordance with State Technical Airworthiness Regulation 1.1.5.c. They provide a standardised means for DGTA to promulgate urgent special engineering and maintenance instructions to correct an unsafe or unsatisfactory condition that is generally broader based than a single weapon system. A TAD is similar to an STI, but is issued directly by DGTA. It provides specific types of authoritative airworthiness advice that requires mandatory action in accordance with Regulation 1.1.5.d. 2. The TAD system provides the TAR and TAR staff with a formal tool for issuing important and / or urgent technical airworthiness information and directing required action to be carried out to ensure continued airworthiness of State aircraft and associated equipment. Therefore, as with STIs, the incorporation of TADs must be controlled and recorded to ensure that airworthiness standards are maintained. PURPOSE 3. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the responsibilities and procedures associated with TADs. SCOPE 4. This chapter applies to DGTA as well as to all Authorised Engineering and Maintenance Organisations (AEOs and AMOs) responsible for the engineering management, operation or maintenance of in-service State aircraft or aeronautical product. TAD MANAGEMENT 5. A TAD is issued in hard copy format as described below; however, that does not preclude a preceding message, email or telephone advice where the urgency of a situation warrants. 6. DGTA is the Approving Authorities for all TADs. Any TAD that will or is likely to impact, directly or indirectly, the availability and / or operational capability of weapon systems must involve consultation with the affected OAA(s) and SAO Program Office, in accordance Regulation 2.6.5, prior to the release of the TAD. TADs loosely align with the structure and look of an STI, but they are not registered or tracked on SPKB/CAMM. 7. TAD Numbering. Each TAD is serially numbered within each calendar year using a DGTA identifier (eg TAD 01/2007). TADs are not amended where a change is needed the first TAD is cancelled and a new TAD issued. www.dgta.gov.my 3.13 - 1 of 3 TERHAD

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TAD Border. The first page of every TAD has a black and white checkered border. RESPONSIBILITIES

Direktorat Jeneral Teknikal Airworthiness 9. DGTA: a. b. c. raises, releases and distributes TADs when required, maintains a register of TADs, and issues an annual consolidated index.

SAO Program Offices and Approved Maintenance Organisations 10. Action. TADs will require receiving agencies to take specific action, and report to the TAR on the outcomes of those actions. SAO PO and AMO TAD addressees are to action any specific TAD requirements and / or outcomes, or adapt the requirements and / or outcomes as applicable to their aircraft fleet(s) and aeronautical product, and take the appropriate required action. Reports in relation to taking TAD action, and reporting on associated outcomes are to be provided as required by respective TADs. 11. Certification. TAD action addressees are to respond to a TAD in the same way as they would to an OEM (mandatory) Service Bulletin (for SAO POs), or a maintenance unit would to an STI (see Section 2 Chapter 3). SAO PO action agencies are to treat and process TADs in accordance with TI processing requirements (refer TAMM regulation 3.5.2.c. and Section 3 Chapter 5 of the TAMM). 12. Non-Compliance. If an organisation is unable to comply with the TAD, either fully or in part, it is to advise the DGTA point of contact immediately, via message, email or minute, ensuring the reason for the non-compliance is fully defined and a preferred course of action is recommended. 13. Deferred Incorporation. If an urgent unforeseen operational requirement develops that overrides the TAD incorporation requirements at an AMO, the SMM may certify a TAD to be deferred as a CFU. The SMM is to seek authority from the DGTA Approving Authority prior to deferring a TAD. DISTRIBUTION 14. Distribution. Each TAD will have its own unique distribution list based on the specific needs and required outcomes of each respective TAD. TADs will be distributed in hard copy, though electronic or message distribution may be utilised where urgency warrants. STATUS 15. TAD Status. TADs will have a status of either Active or Cancelled. The status of released TADs is promulgated by means of a Consolidation Index. All copies of Cancelled TADs are to be destroyed except as follows: a. A master copy, with the word Cancelled stamped in red on every page, is to be retained by DGTA. www.dgta.gov.my 3.13 - 2 of 3 TERHAD

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b. The MCS of an AMO may, at the discretion of the SMM, retain one copy with the word Cancelled stamped in red on every page. c. AEOs may retain one copy (with the word Cancelled stamped in red on every page) to comply with regulation 3.5.2 and Section 3 Chapter 5 of the TAMM. ANNUAL REVIEW 16. The currency of all active TADs will be reviewed annually by DGTA staff and confirmed to action addressees by email.

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