
Originally Posted by
MistWolf
As far as the TDP goes, it depends. When I was working as a contractor providing maintenance on AH64-A Apaches and AH64-D Longbows, the TDP belonged to the contracting company and it was well guarded from competitors. When a new contract company took over the contract, they used their own TDP. We still provided the same quality maintenance but certain details about how we went about our business changed as a result
Yeah, I'd echo IG's comment, that your experience comes from a field where conservative, religiously followed preventative maintenance is the norm, and a lot of the TDP data content which was deemed sensitive had to do with the huge sums of money required to determine the expected mean lifetime, approximate low end 3 sigma lifetime, and testing procedures to ensure that parts fall within spec. It's a completely different QA regime, where there are plenty more correct answers because of the redundancy built into systems as well as the massively improved documentation and PM protocols in place.
Take those same airframes, give them to a third party nation, with the knowing expectation they'll put crap fuel through it, provide lax PM for it, and you'd start to see that the most conservative TDP far outstrips the more feature laden options. Simply put, firearms are more common, receive poorer documentation, and mostly get ran harder in worse conditions with the expectation that they work above minimum anyway.
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