FlyRatz Posted August 17, 2016 Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 Today I was confronted with the following sentence: Aircraft or Equipment registration of the root ancestor of the workorder aircraft or equipment at the time that the aircraft or equipment was populated. This comes from a software, which is meant to support commercial avaiation companies in maintenance tasks. Do you native speakers understand this?? I have problems with the term populated and with root ancestor of the workorder aircraft or equipment. My analysis is: 1. There must be a item which is an aircraft or equipment and this item has a workorder 2. The workorder itself is a child/member of another workorder (called root ancestor here) which relies to another aircraft or equipment. 3. One of the two aircraft or equipment was populated. But which one is meant in this sentence?? I am lost.... Thank you in advance Markus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anticept Posted August 17, 2016 Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 You should ask the software company. There's context that is missing. But basically it seems like it's asking for the original information of that aircraft/equipment (or workorder, it's unclear), or more simply, what was its original info. This might be in reference to when it was installed for time tracking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbigs Posted August 17, 2016 Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 Today I was confronted with the following sentence: Aircraft or Equipment registration of the root ancestor of the workorder aircraft or equipment at the time that the aircraft or equipment was populated. This comes from a software, which is meant to support commercial avaiation companies in maintenance tasks. Do you native speakers understand this?? I have problems with the term populated and with root ancestor of the workorder aircraft or equipment. My analysis is: 1. There must be a item which is an aircraft or equipment and this item has a workorder 2. The workorder itself is a child/member of another workorder (called root ancestor here) which relies to another aircraft or equipment. 3. One of the two aircraft or equipment was populated. But which one is meant in this sentence?? I am lost.... Thank you in advance Markus Populated/Populate means to install or having been installed. Root ancestor is a way to say the original workorder on the original airframe and/or equipment in question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyRatz Posted August 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 Thank you guys for your answer. Unfortunately the software company I asked first is not willing to explain......(although I am on duty for them!) To check, if I understand you right, I try it with my own words: It asks for the registration of the aircraft which contains the equipment I have a workorder for and if the registration has changed in its lifetime, I need to enter the registration which has been active at the time my equipment has been installed in that aircraft.*) *) For simplification I replaced "aircraft or equipment" with aircraft (root ancestor) and equipment (the animal with the workorder). Thanks again. It's good to know to have some helping friends at the other side of the big water. Markus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anticept Posted August 17, 2016 Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 Tell the software company to shove it. That's irresponsible of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
207WF Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 This was clearly not written by a native English speaker, so I don't think one of us can help. WF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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