14 Focus Airpor t Maintenance comes from waiting ... Behind the scenes of the maintenance experts of HAITEC – Aircraft Maintenance GmbH LAUTzENHAUSEN. When at Bern hard Brost‘s house (Maintenance Manager from HAITEC) early in the morning the alarm clock rings and his wife asks him: ’When will you come home tonight?’ maintenance expert Brost must fit despite his 25 years of professional experience, because as a maintainer one does not have regular working hours. ’Where you‘re needed, you have to back – even if it‘s going halfway around the world,’ so Brost talking to the <strong>HahnAirport</strong> magazine. ’But that just makes our work so exciting, because we never know what comes when. Honestly said, maintenance also means that one has to wait a lot on the employments, which the safety of the passengers makes necessary.’ At about 6000 square metres the maintenance area expands in the Maintenance Hangar from HAITEC on the grounds of the airport Frankfurt-Hahn. This area is sufficient to take a closer look from A to Z to about 20 machines per year (mainly in the large C-check). Main customer of HAITEC is currently the Russian fleet of VIM airline, which comprises 14 aircraft. In addition, the jumbo jets of the freight line ACG and Atlas-Air can be found regularly for check-up (C & A-checks) in the hangar of Haitec professionals. The one or another engine change during a month is added to the daily business. For the intervals in which a plane has to go to the ’Technical Inspection Agency/MOT’, there are strict rules, stresses Brost. A good example for this are the intervals for the B747-400. ’According to Boeing, the A- Check has to be done every 1.000 flight hours, the C-check every 10.000 flight hours or every 24 months and the D-check every 8 years, then again 8 years and then after 6 years. These intervals can be reduced but not exceeded by the airlines’, explains the maintainer This HAITEC can guarantee their customers the best service, the company currently employs about 140 co-worker who come to 95 percent from the immediate vicinity of the airport. Brost, however is doing a caveat: ’Regrettably it is on the highly qualified people, that they do not come from here.’ As everywhere in Germany, there is also a lack of highly skilled workers in the maintenance industry, who can nowadays really choose, where to work. Brost himself, actually a native Eifelaner, had to start his career in Munich 25 years ago, because there was no demand for his know-how in the region. But he is very glad that he has succeeded at the airport Frankfurt- Hahn. Since the beginning of 2008 there he has found an interesting job in his home region. ’This is really a great feeling, cause when the weather is good, I can see from my kitchen win- <strong>HahnAirport</strong> <strong>Magazin</strong> · Herbst / Winter 2010 / 11 dow whether the hall lighting has been identified in time or get up the hangar doors yet’, added Brost. For the purposes of his employer Brost is trying to increase the training of aircraft mechanics, but also of engine mechanics or other favourable trades such vehicle mechanics in the region. In terms of ’safety first’, the airlines have to pay much for their so-called ’inspection dates’ while visiting the ’Workshop for aircraft’. ’There is – depending on the effort – even in an A-check, which is considered as very small check, just a little five-figure sum about. The checks, for bigger and ever loose up to half a million euros or more, ’commentates Brost’. ’And of course, subject to the maintenance operations at all is the EASA Part 145 (the Atlas-Air is subject to FAA regulations), they can be audited, i.e. can be checked, ’adds the maintainer. And so at HAITEC all the work to satisfy their customers – with regard to the daily maintenance duties, also for Ryanair, Wizz Air and Etihad, and all that accrues to the airport – can be done promptly and qualified, there is worked in Hangar 900 in three layers (24-hour coverage), 7 days a week. ’Especially in the maintenance of jumbos, the 24-hour service – divided into early, late and night shift – is an absolute must,’ stresses Brost. More and more in demand in the maintenance sector, is also the topic of sustainability and environmental management. Also in this issue is carried out at HAITEC according to the latest rules, then one for example pays attention even in aircraft washes to the fact, that the used water is caught so no oil or kerosene residues get into groundwater. Further information: www.haitec.aero
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