FR / EN
Maintenance glossary FR / EN
Common aircraft maintenance terms with their French equivalent and usual abbreviation.
- Aircraft maintenance licence (LMA / AML)
- Licence de maintenance aéronautique
- Licence issued under Part-66 evidencing basic knowledge and experience.
- Aircraft maintenance manual (AMM)
- Manuel de maintenance aéronef
- Manufacturer maintenance data describing tasks.
- Aircraft maintenance programme (AMP)
- Programme d'entretien
- Document defining scheduled tasks and their intervals.
- Airworthiness directive (CN / AD)
- Consigne de navigabilité
- Mandatory document requiring actions to restore an acceptable level of safety.
- Approved maintenance organisation (Part-145)
- Organisme de maintenance agréé
- Organisation approved under Annex II (Part-145) to Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014.
- Approved training organisation (Part-147)
- Organisme de formation agréé
- Organisation approved to deliver Part-66 basic and/or type training.
- Authorised release certificate (EASA Form 1)
- Certificat libératoire autorisé
- Release form for a component.
- Base maintenance
- Maintenance en base
- Heavy or scheduled maintenance beyond the scope of line maintenance.
- Calibration
- Étalonnage
- Check of a tool or instrument against a recognised standard.
- Certificate of release to service (APRS / CRS)
- Approbation pour remise en service
- Certificate issued by certifying staff after maintenance has been properly carried out.
- Certification authorisation
- Autorisation de certification
- Authorisation issued by the organisation to its certifying staff, with a defined scope.
- Certifying staff
- Personnel certifiant
- Staff authorised to issue a release to service.
- Continuing airworthiness management (CAMO)
- Gestion du maintien de la navigabilité
- Approved organisation (Part-CAMO) managing continuing airworthiness.
- Deferred defect
- Report de défaut
- Defect whose rectification is postponed under approved procedures.
- Electrical wiring interconnection system (EWIS)
- Système d'interconnexion du câblage électrique
- All wires, connectors and associated electrical installation hardware.
- Foreign object damage (FOD)
- Dommage par corps étranger
- Damage caused by a foreign object (tool, hardware, debris).
- Human factors
- Facteurs humains
- Discipline studying human capabilities and limitations applied to maintenance.
- Illustrated parts catalogue (IPC)
- Catalogue illustré des pièces
- Reference of parts and their interchangeability.
- Independent inspection
- Inspection indépendante
- Check by a second qualified person on certain critical tasks.
- Line maintenance
- Maintenance en ligne
- Maintenance carried out before flight, generally without long downtime.
- Lock-out / tag-out (LOTO)
- Consignation
- Isolation and tagging of an energy source before work.
- Maintenance organisation exposition (MOE)
- Exposé de l'organisme de maintenance
- Document describing the organisation and procedures of a Part-145 organisation.
- Maintenance training organisation exposition (MTOE)
- Exposé de l'organisme de formation
- Document describing the organisation and procedures of a Part-147 organisation.
- Management system
- Système de gestion
- Organisation of safety, compliance and continuous improvement required of organisations.
- Minimum equipment list (LME / MEL)
- Liste minimale d'équipements
- List of equipment that may be inoperative at dispatch, under conditions.
- On-the-job training (OJT)
- Formation sur le tas
- Supervised practical training required for a first type rating in a category.
- Service bulletin (SB)
- Bulletin service
- Manufacturer document recommending an inspection or modification.
- Shift handover
- Passation de consignes
- Formal transfer of task status between shifts.
- Support staff
- Personnel de soutien
- B1 or B2 staff supporting category C certification in base maintenance.
- Type rating
- Qualification de type
- Endorsement on the licence allowing certification on a given aircraft type.