Selecting a Manual in Tech Pubs
The page Select a Manual displays the Manual Describers organized under the Technical Manual Indexes (TMIs). TMIs in turn are listed under the corresponding Consumers as shown below.

This page allows you to select a Manual from a Manual Describer which you can filter based on Effectivity.
The selection workflow has the following three stages:
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Manual Describer: Select the Manual Describer under the Technical Manual Index presented in separate Consumer tiles.
Manual: Select the required revision of the Manual to be viewed.
Effectivity: Specify the Effectivity to filter the Manual content.
To select a Manual from the Tech Pubs search:
From the main menu, click the search
icon.
The below page to select the type of search appears.
Select Tech Pubs from the dropdown as shown below.
The Tech Pubs Global search page opens.
Click Select a Manual.
The page Manual Describer Selection appears. In each Consumer tile, you can view the associated Technical Manual Indexes.
Expand a Technical Manual Index to select the required Manual Describer.
In the above example, the Manual Describer AMM_2025 is selected.
Click
.The selection workflow moves to the next stage, Manual. The page Revision Selection appears.
[Optional] Select a Revision of the Manual.
The selection workflow moves to the next stage Effectivity. The page Effectivity Selection appears.
[Optional] Specify the Effectivity to filter the Manual content based on the specified Effectivity values.
In the above example, the Tail Number value is set to 503. The Manual content specific to that Tail Number will be filtered and displayed.
Click
.Note
If required, you can click
to move back to the previous stage.The Manual appears in a new tab in the Manual preview.
The structure contains the manual content where the selected Effectivity is applied. You can select an element to view the content.