Maintenance Briefing Note 12/5/2014

Airbus Customer Services

Engineering & Maintenance

Maintenance Briefing
Note

Bonding, grounding or earthing

Maintenance Briefing Note 12/5/2014

Bonding, grounding or earthing

The objective of this Maintenance Briefing Note is to consolidate the Airbus requirements
and recommendations concerning bonding, grounding and earthing.

Note that the adherence to these requirements will contribute to protecting the health and
safety of maintenance mechanics working on the aircraft.

Content of this Maintenance Briefing Note:

• Terminology / Definitions
• Location of grounding (earthing) points per Airbus Program
• Maintenance tasks and related AMM task description
• Overview of applicable AMM references
• Illustrations for transit and base / hangar maintenance
• Flowchart as a quick reference decision aid

Terminology / Definitions

• Electrical bonding:
The establishment of a current path between electrically conductive parts in order to
assure Electrical Continuity.
This path may be between:
• two structural parts
• two points on a ground plane of a system (e.g. antenna) or
• the PVR (Point Of Voltage Reference= A/C power source voltage reference) AND
structure elements such as Metallic Aircraft Structure, MBN (Metallic Bonding Network) or
ESN (Electrical Structural Network), a circuit or an equipment chassis.

• Electrical grounding:
The establishment of a current path between two conductive parts in order to ensure the
return of functional current (power or signal) to the power source neutral.
This includes connections used for Electrical Current Return.

• Electrical earthing:
The establishment of electrical continuity between the A/C on ground and the earth’s
surface (globe)
• Thus earthing is a bonding function between the aircraft on ground AND the earth.

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Bonding, grounding or earthing

Location of grounding (earthing) points per Airbus Program

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Bonding, grounding or earthing

Maintenance tasks and related AMM task description

Task Recommendation Impact AMM

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Bonding, grounding or earthing

• Overview of applicable AMM tasks

• A300/A310 WB Family:
• AMM 240000 PB 301
• AMM 242300 PB 301
• AMM 244100 (next update with revision date June 2015)
• AMM 121435 PB 001 (next update with revision date June 2015)
• AMM 121128 PB 301 (next update with revision date June 2015)
• AMM 350000 (next update with revision date June 2015)

• A320 Family:
• AMM 123400 PB 001
• AMM 123424 869 001 & 001B
• AMM 123424 869 002
• AMM 121128 PB 301 (next update with revision date May 2015)
• AMM 12-14-35-600-001 (next update with revision date May 2015)
• AMM 35-00-00-860-001 (next update with revision date May 2015)
• AMM 244100 PB 201

• A330/A340 Family:
• AMM 123400 PB 001
• AMM 123424 860 801
• AMM 123424 860 802
• AMM 121128 PB 301
• AMM 12-14-35-600-801 (next update with revision date April 2015)
• AMM 35-00-00-860-801 (next update with revision date April 2015)
• AMM 244100 PB 201 (next update with revision date April 2015)

• A380:
• AMM 24-41-00-860-801 (next update with revision date March 2015)
• AMM 24-41-00-860-802 (next update with revision date March 2015)
• AMM 28-00-00-610-801 (next update with revision date March 2015)
• AMM 28-25-00 PB 301 (next update with revision date March 2015)
• AMM 35-00-00-860-801 (next update with revision date March 2015)
• AMM 35-11-00-614-801 (next update with revision date March 2015)
• AMM 35-21-00-614-801 (next update with revision date March 2015)

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Bonding, grounding or earthing

Illustrations for transit and base / hangar maintenance

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Maintenance Briefing Note 12/5/2014

Bonding, grounding or earthing

Illustrations for transit and base / hangar maintenance

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Maintenance Briefing Note 12/5/2014

Bonding, grounding or earthing

Flowchart as a quick reference decision aid

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We appreciate receiving feedback to this issue of the Maintenance Briefing Notes.

Uwe Eggerling
Senior Director Safety
Engineering & Maintenance
Customer Services

Uwe.eggerling@airbus.com

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