Bob, no I have not used that system.
Coming from a mainly (majority) military system we used the following:
- 1 Flight Manual
- 2 Maintenance Manuals. Further divided into component areas with the first sub -1 being Airframe. Undercarriage -9.
- 3 Overhaul Manuals
- 4 Illustrated Parts Manual
Civilian manuals were similar but I am only talking about light aircraft, i.e singles and twins. These were from memory the factory Cessna, Piper and Beechcraft ones.
Whilst working in Saudi on a military contract it was the US TO system with a thousand and one different manuals. Previously as Airframe trade I did everything Airframe (fixed & rotary wing) except sheet metal. Whereas the US TO system was broken down into the various sub systems trades/specialists which we found funny because we automatically were qualified to do all of them. A Crew Chief on the other hand knew a little about everything required for first line maintenance. For us a Crew Chief was any aircraft trade but was generally a daily/weekly allocation. When I later picked up the engine trade I was expected to know everything about turbines and reciprocating engines before they were phased out. Then if I poked my nose into the flight engineer world, which I did very briefly I was expected to know everything and I mean everything. For instance 128 CBs of which many were multi purpose. Nowadays the Air Force has dumbed down and more about less is the order of the day.
As this is Oz I am talking about, the main problem I had as a young fellah was the logic of locating odd things such as components attached to things that I assumed were there but were located elsewhere with a few items missing. Possibly control items and such.
Getting back to the Flight Manual, sub sections included: -1 an overview of systems, -3 Emergency Procedures. For instance the military version of the B737 BBJ, the Emergency Procedures were straight out of the factory B737 manual.
Apologies to those not from an aviation background.
