Create Configuration Class – A summary of the activity

Configuration - An Overview

What you can do in this activity

The airline industry is characterized by the prevalence of a large number of similar maintainable assets – large fleets of identical aircraft (model and make), and similar components, which can be interchanged across models. ‘Configuration’ essentially refers to the structure of an aircraft. It represents the various components present in the aircraft and the positions where these can be fitted.

Configuration can be defined for aircraft models, aircraft, part numbers and components. All the aircraft associated to the model can inherit the configuration defined for the aircraft models. Similarly, components can inherit the configuration defined for part numbers. You can also define the configuration for the individual aircraft or component.

The combination of aircraft model and configuration class forms a unique identifier of configuration. Configuration class can be stated as a group of Aircraft Models having similar functional characteristics. For example, you can have a "Etop-1.5" (Etop which can fly for 1.5 hours) as one configuration class. Possibly aircraft models with advanced navigation capabilities (like say, RVSM) can form one configuration class. You can also possibly define one "Base" configuration, which is the standard configuration for all models.

Since model configurations are maintained at a Model - configuration class combination, Configuration class gives the flexibility of capturing variations in configuration within the same model (for example, a B-737-400 can come with Rolls Royce and pratt and whitney engine). If the fleet is mixed, then you can build up two configuration classes for the 737-400 model, if required. (An alternate to this will be to effect the change at an aircraft level).

This activity allows you to create a configuration class and specify certain attributes which will be inherited by all the models and aircraft associated to that class. You can create a configuration class with a unique code and provide a description for it. You can specify whether the configuration class should be of type “ETOP” (Extended Twin Engine Operation) or not. You can select the aircraft group, the type of the aircraft, the usage of the aircraft and the type of the landing gear and attach them to the configuration class. You can also define the number of engines and the number of APUs (Auxiliary Power Units) for the configuration class.

You can associate aircraft models to the configuration class. An aircraft model can be associated to more than one configuration class. The system assigns the “Active” status as soon as the configuration class is created and sets the created date and time to the server date and time.

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What you can do in this activity

Specify ETOP configuration for configuration class

Attach aircraft group to configuration class

Attach landing gear type to configuration class

Associate model to configuration class

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specify ETOP configuration for configuration class

You can specify whether the configuration class should be of type “ETOP” (Extended Twin Engine Operation) or not. The aircraft associated to this configuration class will inherit ETOP configuration.

Attach aircraft group to configuration class

Attach landing gear type to configuration class

You can specify the type of the landing gear that has to be attached to the configuration class, which could be “Bogie Beam” or “Tri-Cycle”.

Associate model to configuration class

You can associate aircraft models to the configuration class. An aircraft model can be associated to more than one configuration class.