Reference document definitions

Reference document definitions are used to track compliance to airworthiness directives (AD), service bulletins (SB), maintenance planning documents (MPD) from the manufacturer, and more.

Reference document definitions cannot be initialized as active tasks. You cannot assign reference documents to blocks, and you cannot assign job cards to reference documents. However, you can link reference documents to requirements.

You can also use reference document definitions to represent administrative documents you receive, and for which no maintenance work is needed. In this case, you do not link the reference document to any requirement.

A new reference document has the Build status until you disposition it. While the status remains Build, you can continue to modify the reference document as needed, including changing the class. You can lock reference documents to prevent any modifications while the reference document is in Build or Revision status. If you duplicate a reference document definition, you can change the class on the new definition.

Reference documents can be associated with specific warranty contracts.

Reference Documents Disposition

You disposition a reference document to specify how you handled the information or instruction included in the document. Dispositioning of a reference document changes its status to Active. Your organization configures the types of dispositions that you can select; for example, Not Applicable To Fleet, Maintenance Required, and Rejected.

If a reference document describes work that must be performed, and the work is completed on applicable inventory as part of a requirement, you can also initialize the reference document as historical for the inventory items on which the work was completed, and as non-applicable for inventory for which the maintenance work was not required. Note that initializing reference document is not required for modeling ADs, SBs and other types of directives. You can simply disposition the reference document; the links to completed requirements provide the necessary traceability.