The CAA runs a tight ship on licencing due to the fact that it requires competent people with
sufficent experience to carry out the duties of a certifying technician. The type courses also have to be sat as a formal PART 147 course, that unless somebody (a company) is paying you to do it, is going to cost you in the region of 5 to 7 Grand (taking loss of earnings into consideration, if you are connie).
Lads, don't be taken in by a Kingston Uni statement that you will have a ticket in four years. You will have to prove to others post course, that you have the common sense and the handskills to go with any knowledge learned and pick up the specifics for that type that you will rated on. You will hate the CAP 741 as much as any uni assignment, because that will be the documentation that will have to be completed to get the ticket, regardless of having the modules. The number of mechs you see that haven't been filling that document up on a regular basis..
