Aircraft Maintenance License UK

[F16 falcom]

Hi everyone,

I have recently graduated with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering and am now interested to get an aircraft maintenance license in the UK. Can you please guide me on how I can achieve this and what courses should I be looking at? Any particular training schools? Many thanks.

[Rigga]

Go to:
ELGD Documents | Personnel Licensing | Safety Regulation (http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?catid=177&pagetype=68&gid=777)

Download the "ELGD" and read it.

Best of luck

Rigga

[Alber Ratman]

Got any B modules with your degree?? Get a job as a mechanic if you can. As far as maintenance is concerned, a degree means nothing without the modules, experience, type courses etc.

[zigmund]

not necessarily,experience wise a degree like that will allow you to get your B license alot quicker , that said , you may not know that much with such little experience thus be not that popular an engineer.

[MartinCh]

If I were in your position, thinking of working on aircraft with theoretical degree, I'd probably go for B2 licence. You've got some knowledge of stuff. Getting work with B2 modules would probably be Catch-22 situation, though.

Many B1 engineers do the B2 modules later on as well, not much extra to do.
You can study for the exams and sit them, but without part-147 training, it'd be good to have a relevant job while working towards the exams on your own or with some help of distance study materials and tutorial.

I can say that doing yet another FT course may not be worth it and you're not likely to get student funding for it either. The exam passes have expiry date, although there are some changes underway.

I myself am doing part-147 training, degree/modules mix and am bit disappointed regarding the amount of practical experience. It's almost nothing. Also, the work placements won't be easy to get/sort. Sure, I get reduction in experience for the full licence, but it'd be hard to get job that'd allow it. I'd also like to do the extra modules for B1.3 and B1.4 as well.
Again, no idea how I'd get work experience on helicopters.
Norsk/Bristow Norway do advertise for apprentices with passed EASA modules, but that probably wouldn't work out for me.

Get a job, even if just part time placement for now, besides a job that pays bills, then you'd have more chance to get full time job, then work towards exams. I presume at your age/after degree you'd struggle to get apprenticeship - some pay and on the job training. Others can mention some, I've no idea.

[jpoth06]

The best way of doing it, if you can't get a job as a mechanic anywhere, is to do a Part 147 course.

Have a look at LRTT (http://www.lrtt.co.uk), SRT (http://www.srtechnics.com/cms/index.asp?TopicID=154), KLM (http://www.klmukengineering.com/content/prod-technical.asp), Barry College (http://www.barry.ac.uk/showcourses.asp?tmode=part%20time&area=5), Boston Air (http://www.bostonairtraining.com/home) or Kingston.

Some of those may be a degree/module mix though.

[Alber Ratman]

and they will not get you the experience requirements..Only working as a mechanic gets that.

[jpoth06]

and they will not get you the experience requirements..Only working as a mechanic gets that.

Of course, but you're more likely to be taken on as a mechanic if you've undertaken basic training and passed all the relevant modules towards your licence.

[rosyriveter]

There's no reason you cant do both concurrently. Try to get in at a 145 company that has a 147 training dept too. Get in as a fuel tech if you have to and offer to help out the mechs. Chances are, if they are 147 approved then they also administer the module exams! Gain your experience and knock out the modules one by one. By the time you have finished the modules, you will have gained the experience you need. If you already have a degree then you dont need any more courses, you have the knowledge, just study. I guess it takes a gal to think of multitasking! ;) :p Check out the AMT logbooks available for an experience guide.