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TRAINING COURSE

Airworthiness

Introduction

The 5-day course will introduce the Airworthiness principles for all activities associated with Civil Aircraft operating in, or influenced by, European regulatory requirements. The course will cover the background to the current airworthiness regulations, aspects of design and certification and operation.

A common thread will run through the whole course taking in Type Certification, Supplemental Type Certification, changes (modifications) and repairs at all levels, approval systems to support Design, Production for the TC holder, Operational Approvals, Continued Airworthiness Management under Part M through maintenance activities of Part 145 and the certification of personnel through Parts 66 and 147.

The course is designed to understand the principles in the regulatory system concept concerning aircraft design, manufacturing, modification, operation, management, and maintenance. In practice, it is required to communicate with different organisations with their own airworthiness responsibilities. It provides current practical application and guidance on how to effectively understand the regulatory principles and responsibilities for all airworthiness related approvals and standards.

Course Content

  • Understanding the principles of all relevant airworthiness regulations;
  • Understanding airworthiness responsibilities, of States and persons and organisations, with respect to the aircraft;
  • The ability to solve practical issues by understanding the principles of airworthiness;
  • After the course, you should be able to solve interface issues w.r.t. airworthiness responsibilities.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you should have:

    • Understanding the principles of all relevant airworthiness regulations;
    • Understanding airworthiness responsibilities, of States and persons and organisations, with respect to the aircraft;
    • The ability to solve practical issues by understanding the principles of airworthiness;
    • After the course, you should be able to solve interface issues w.r.t. airworthiness responsibilities.

Who should take this course

· Airline Auditor
· Design organization personnel communicating with the customer
· Defence airworthiness personal
· Compliance Monitoring staff
· CAA personal
· Accident investigators

Basically, all staff that is interacting with other market segments and those who want to understand the full airworthiness supply chain and have to deal with the interface of the airworthiness regulatory structure.

Pre-requisites

Essential:

Familiarity with Airworthiness and Maintenance concepts.

Participants are kindly requested to bring a laptop to the course to access course material which will only be provided in electronic format.