Simple aircraft maintenance license

[Genghis the Engineer]

I know this has been a political hot potato for a while, so it might interest a few people here that EASA has finally published proposals for a simple aircraft maintenance license.

Details here (http://www.easa.eu.int/ws_prod/r/doc/NPA/NPA%202008-03.pdf)

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[WOTME?]

“Licences for non-complex aircraft maintenance engineers”

I've been non-complex for years.:)

[Nopax,thanx]

106 pages! :eek: Gawd knows how big the proposal for a complex licence would be....:rolleyes:

Whaddya think, guys, good idea?

[PhilM]

From the 2 seconds I gave to reading it; seems they are proposing two new licences;

B3 licence: applicable to sailplanes, powered sailplanes and piston engine non-pressurised
aeroplanes below 2000 Kg MTOM.
It must be noted that this category of aircraft is not as wide as those covered by the ELA2
process, because it does not include rotorcraft, balloons and airships. In addition, it
includes sailplanes and powered-sailplanes.
• ELA licence: applicable to the following:
o Sailplanes, powered sailplanes and aeroplanes below 1000 Kg MTOM, not classified
as “complex motor-powered aircraft”
o Balloons
o Hot-air airships
o Manned gas airships meeting all the following elements:
(i) 3% maximum static heaviness
(ii) Non vectored thrust (except reverse thrust)
(iii) Conventional and simple design of the:
�� Structure
�� Control system
�� Ballonet system
(iv) Non power-assisted controls