Upon issue, Transport Canada ADs are distributed to the registered owners of affected Canadian aircraft.
In accordance with ICAO Circular 95-AN/78 Transport Canada ADs are also distributed to the airworthiness authorities of foreign states where Canadian certified products are believed to be operating.
Document formatting :
Canadian directives:
{AD_NUMBER}-{LANG}.{HTM|PDF}(Note : Country code for Canada, is already the prefix of the AD document name)Foreign directives:
{COUNTRY-CODE}{AD_NUMBER}.{HTM|PDF}
Certain characters occasionally found in foreign AD numbers cannot be used in naming a web document. The following substitutions are to be used in the htm/pdf filename :
character | before | after |
|---|---|---|
backslashback slash | \ | - (dash) |
forwardslash forward slash | / | - |
underscore | _ | - |
period | . | - |
comma | , | - |
semicolon | ; | - |
embedded blank space | REMOVE blank. |
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\\ncrfs345\AARD\AARD Public\CAWIS-REPORTS\Ad_archive\working
TROUBLESHOOTING
The An AD File is can be found on a physical lookup (append the document name onto the URL
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Ensure all files for export are available at : \\ncrws488\tcwwwtest\Aviation\applications\AWD-CN\documents
Verify the status of the "make live to web" flag in CAWIS, and the appropriate “document available” “document available” flags are ticked
Ensure the file name is in the proper format.
Check if the sync script if is running (script intervals : 20 mins)
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all owners/operators of the affected products found on the current Canadian register (5008 module)
all International Civil Aviation Authorities/ICAO members (SIGS module)
all other special interest groups requesting updates on that product (SIGS module)
all TC regional office reference centers
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All other requestors (mostly foreign airlines) are directed to subscribe to E-News
https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Comm/5/ListServ/Index.aspx E-news
Notes:
Type certificate Holders (TCH)
Not ALL Canadian published ADs pertain to Canadian TCH products, only
Canadian products are occasionally found on Foreign issued ADs and these are sometimes adopted by TC (though, normal practice is that TC/CAW reviews the AD, and then issues a Canadian AD afterward)
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MDM outages
Record lock can occur. (can take up to 2 hours before reset)
Exchange server password changes ? (controlled by the shared services group)
possibly an export script outage ? The MDM code looks for a copy of the document on the Internal web server ( https://tcapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/AwD-CN/documents/ )
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Beginning in 1996, all Canadian ADs and applicable foreign ADs were scanned to HTM format. HTM publication continued until 2015.
PDF publication began in 2005 2004 in conjunction with HTM, and is not the only format exported to AD web, except in cases where the inspectors are posting old ADs on newly acquired products, and HTM is the only format available. PDF’s were ultimately produced for all TC ADs back to 1933.
Sale Reported / Invalid Address operators
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