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There are 2 routes to an EASA B1.1 Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Licence, whoch would be issued by your NAA without a type rating, usually known (in English) as a LWTR. When you have that, you can start adding type ratings, but not before, for the obvious reason that the rating needs to be applied to a licence.
Route 1 is to undergo a fully-approved Basic Training course, run in its entirety by a Training Organisation holding a Part 147 approval for basic training. This course MUST consist of 3 elements, Theoretical (ie classroom work on the Modules, and an examination for each Module), Practical Training (Carried out in the Training Organisation's own approved workshops) and On the Job Training (OJT) which must be carried out in a Part 145-approved MRO under the overall control of the Part 147 TO that provides the other 2 elements. The basic training course must be run over a minimum of 2,400 genuine instruction hours, including the OJT.
The OJT should cover all the main areas of an aircraft.
Route 2 is studying for and passing all the Module exams in a specified period (5 years??) under your own arrangements, ie study at home and taking the exams run by your NAA.
The difference is the length of work experience needed before you can apply for a licence. Under Route 1 when you have completed the Basic Training and have a Basic Training Certificate in your hand you can apply for a licence when you have at least 2 years work experience logged and signed off.
Under Route 2, you must have at least 5 years work experience logged, as well as all the Module examination certificates, before you can apply for a licence. But you do not need the Practical Training and OJT. (The extra 3 years work experience is in lieu of these).
Work experience is not OJT. OJT is a structured programme of training, working under supervision on live aircraft in a Part 145-approved environment. Work experience is work carried as an unlicensed member of the maintenance staff, under the organisation's MOE so far as supervision and certification of work are concerned.
So far so good. Perhaps you knew all that. Reading your post, it seems that you may have done the Modules and Practical Training elements of a fully-approved Basic Training course, but not the OJT, at least not the OJT done as EASA requires.
In that situation, if you paid money for the Theoretical and Practical Training, you were robbed, to an extent, if you thought you were doing a fully-approved course (ie Route 1). Without the OJT, there was no point in doing the Practical Training (so far as EASA regulations are concerned!) because you would not receive a Basic Training certificate, and were therefore on Route 2.
I am assuming that you have passed all the Module examinations, so you are well down the road for Route 2. (You need a certificate issued by the Part 147 TO for them all, either one for each Module, or one listing all the Modules.)
I agree that your problem lies with whether your work experience will satisfy the NAA, as it is only on components. I simply don't know whether the "specific training on some (but not all) ATAs of A320 type training" will count as work experience, and maybe another ppruner will know.
Whatever the answer, unless you can get a Basic Training Certificate from the Part 147 organisation you did the Modules and Practical with, you should aim for the B1.1 licence via Route 2, and get your NAA to advise specifically on what work experience you still need to obtain (if any) before you can apply for it. And then go for that, with a new employer if necessary. I realise that they are not being helpful, but they will accept or reject your application, and they must tell you what's needed. If they fail to do so, you can (and should) contact EASA to complain about that, but not to get the answers. If you have to do that, be prepared for a lot of bureaucratic time-wasting and delay, but persist.
That licence will be the foundation of the career you want; when you have it you can decide on how you want to use it, and what type ratings you need to get.
And if I were you, if the Part 147 organisation you were with did not explain all the above properly, find a good lawyer to recover your money. But wiser heads may say it's not worth the hassle, forget it and move on! And perhaps they did.
Last edited by Capot; 27th Apr 2015 at 22:16.