This commonality permits greater ease of learning and understanding for pilots, aircraft maintenance technicians, and engineers alike.
While the ATA 100 numbering system has been superseded, it continued to be widely used until it went out of date in 2015, especially in documentation for general aviation aircraft, on aircraft Fault Messages (for Post Flight Troubleshooting and Repair) and the electronic and printed manuals.
It includes an industry-wide approach for aircraft system numbering, as well as formatting and data content standards for documentation output.
[2] More recently, the international aviation community developed the S1000D standard, an XML specification for preparing, managing, and using equipment maintenance and operations information.
Civil aviation authorities will also organize their information by ATA chapter like the Master Minimum Equipment List (MMEL) Guidebook from Transport Canada.
42 Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) 43 Emergency Solar Panel System (ESPS)