Cafam Software Knowledgebase

The process of updating the Aircraft times is done in one of two ways: (a) From TECH SERVCS (Acft Recs) > AIRCRAFT FILE > UPDATE HOURS. Here you manually enter the new figures. CAFAM calculates the difference and when you finish and click [OK} the program updates all the files for the new times and ...

This screen shots shows the data being prompted in the Call-up file from TECH SVCS (Act Recs) > CALL-UPS > ADD/EDIT CALL-UP and in particular the use of "Memo" notes to expand the information being entered in the Work sheet Information


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The attached notes set out to explain the fundamentals of how CAFAM works. The point being made here that "Due Listings" and "Forecast" derive their calculations on the time remaining that has been recorded in the file. It does not use a "Remove at" calculation but reli...

These notes illustrate some of the screens in the Aircraft records part of CAFAM and briefly the basis of how they work


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CAFAM has an option to hold additional details that forms the basis of an Aircraft Specification. This can be used for variety of reason, e.g. Marketing information on the Aircraft or to simple enhance the information held on the Aircraft. Setting the program to recognise the Aircraft type is done o...

There may be an occasion where you may want to delete a Call-up that has been tagged to to an Aircraft. The basis of doing is to only delete the Call-up on one single Aircraft where perhaps an entry error was made, leaving it intact for the remaining fleet. You can of course delete a Call-up in its ...

CAFAM internally creates a history of all Call-ups that have been satisfied. Everytime you do a "Satisfy Call-up", CAFAM internally creates a history of this transaction. Thus you can review at any time the history of the Call-ups satisfied over a period in time, e.g. for a "100 hour ...

In CAFAM all items to be controlled against Aircraft or Components are entered as a 'Call-up'. These could be Airworthiness Directives (AD's), Service Bulletins (SB's), Maintenance Schedule or Program Items etc., anything that is a maintenance task as applicable to the aircraft. These Notes set out ...

These screen shots cover the entry of data into the Call-up file. The Call-up Ref number is critical in its make-up. We recommend that you prefix the call-up with the origin, e.g. all American ADs be prefixed 'FAA' (e.g. FAA 97-10-03), UK Directives with 'CAA' (e.g. CAA006-03-95), Maintenance Schedu...

When entering Defects in the Defect Analysis module, there is a prompt for the M.E.L. (Minimum Equipment Listing) code that applies to your Operations. As these may differ between Companies, these notes set out to help to change/edit the default entries For a detailed screen shot of this task please...