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PRODUCT UPDATE
By Walker Jaroch
IT WAS THREE DECADES AGO WHEN THE SPARK THAT
would become Tdata, Inc., was had.
"Thirty years ago, I was flying to a local airport for maintenance. I was chatting with the director of maintenance (DOM)
and he showed me his regulatory library. At the time, it was on
microfiche. He said, 'I wish someone else would get into this
business. There is only one company and they have high prices.'
I had experience with microfiche and aviation, so I started Tdata
with $500. Tdata quickly turned into a thriving software company," recounts Jim Thomas, president and CEO of Tdata, Inc.
Today, Tdata has grown to offer many software solutions for
the aviation industry, and a year ago, released its latest piece of
software - the IA7 Advanced Airworthiness System - a webbased version of the company's regulatory libraries.
"Tdata had been producing regulatory libraries on compact
disc (CD) for many years; our customers wanted a web version.
It took seven years to develop. I wanted to build the perfect airworthiness product," explains Thomas. "There is one, complete
and user-friendly version. IA7 is available for a single user or
multi-user environment and allows the administrator to set up
sub-users with either admin or basic user privileges. It has always
been our goal to create products that are easy to use. IA7 is a
perfect representation of that goal. It is designed to be scalable
so that it can be used by a single IA or a large corporation with
many locations."
The key features of the IA7 Advanced Airworthiness System are:
* An organized and easy to use interface. You only need to
know the model number to start an AD search and you don't
have to know who the current TC holder is. "For example,
The Cessna 172 is now the Textron 172 but it is known by
its 'popular' name, Cessna. We incorporated 'popular naming' and also allow the user to change that information to
whatever they like," says Thomas.
* Complete documentation: Users can upload documents or photos to an individual AD or the entire aircraft record. Logbook
pages or before and after photos are a common use for this
feature, says Thomas.
* FAA Forms are filled out on screen, directly into the forms
in PDF format. Busy shops may produce thousands of forms
over the years - and the IA7 keeps all of those saved forms
in their original versions. The forms are easily filtered by form
type, date range, or even by the user who created the form.
TDATA
38 OCTOBER 2019
AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY
Aircraft Maintenance Technology
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Aircraft Maintenance Technology
Changing of the Seasons
Nip/Tuck: Aircraft Edition
Staving Off Obsolescence
The Business of Biz-Jet Maintenance in Latin America
Airlines Need MROs to be More Like Pit Crews
Stepping Up Ladder Safety
Time to Upgrade?
Browsing the Digital Library
Product Showcase
Only the Paranoid Survive: Overcoming Complacency
It Takes Teamwork to Identify Safety Challenges
Can People be Trained to Become Better Service Providers?
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Aircraft Maintenance Technology - Stepping Up Ladder Safety
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Aircraft Maintenance Technology - Only the Paranoid Survive: Overcoming Complacency
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