EASA Conversion Type Ratings

[Ned Coates]

Good posts

I'm in the same boat and have been scratching my head....To figure out why someone, with three decades of maint experience, who can be placed anywhere on the planet and safely maintain Airbus and Boeing jets,could have ended up with no relevant qualifications and un-employable in Europe.

I think the answer may lie in finding the true purpose of the UKCAA. What we think it is and what it actually is, may be two very different things. Try Companies House in London. Du Pont.

[super engineer]

You may wanna googling this one : Foreign_EASA_Part_147[1].pdf

this is EASA website listing all non EASA land approved 147 company, not sure if it talking about 147 Basic or Type course though......

[spannersatcx]

Have recently heard a rumour that CAA are now accepting HAECO courses

HAECO is an EASA 147 approved training school, as long as the course certificate states that then the CAA HAS to accept it.

I hve an AME license og DGCA, India. And i want to hold an EASA license. IS there any way that i can get it converted, meaning are there any relaxations or credits that I have for the EASA exams or do i hve tro appear all the modules

No, no credits or exemptions.

[din]

Airbus training at Toulouse

Hi ,
I have friend who converted to B1 but UK CAA denied him the endorsement because the certificate from Airbus did not have it's Part 147 approval number on it. Unlucky for him the EASA approval was granted to Airbus training few days after his course commenced.
funny!!!!!!!!!

[fastbuck]

EASA Conversions

Its been a while since I posted on PPRUNE. Its a pointless exercise trying to battle the establishment. By the time you move one step forward its two steps back. I did my re exams with my former employer for my B777 conversion but I cant get them on my EASA Licence because the Airline im with currently doesnt operate the type, so I cant get work experience on Type without which the CAA wont endorse the licence. Bearing in mind this a Grandfather rights issue. I wont be using the Rating anyway as I would need to resit Approval Exams So it would have been no loss to the CAA. The same will apply to all my other types. Also my former employer is not running any more exams for the likes of us former expats who have left the sandpit. So thats the end of that. Years of work down the drain. My advice to the Expats still out there. Stay there!
Good Luck
fastbuck

[NutLoose]

Look on the bright side, if you had say the DC3, DC4, DC6 etc on your CAA licence, you would of had to jump through all the hoops and things to get an EASA licence to find that a year or so further on that EASA in an about turn would decide these would now go back onto your National CAA issued licence!!!

Of course, as your EASA licence is not renewed for 5 years they will still appear on your licence, as will a lot of other things since removed or the limitations removed and the type shuffled around in the listings into groups.....

So you now have a licence showing aircraft not actually still on it or even limitations on certain aircraft that are now in groups you hold giving you full coverage under the group even though it appears you have a limitation on the type, which you no longer have!..... what is printed on my licence is fiction to what I actually hold and even then if I get asked to fix XYZ I need to trawl through the web to see if this week I am still cleared to sign it off.

To compound the issue, think of companies operating the likes of the DC3 having had to go through the grief and expense of getting full EASA 145 approvals to find the aircraft then going back to the CAA Approvals they previously held!!!!!!

At least they have taken steps to rectify the stupid system where your EASA licence was valid for 5 years but your accompanying CAA one (Issued free) reduced to only for 2 years, it has since gone back to 5 years the last time I checked, shame it now still throws it out of sequence with my EASA one.......suppose to have originally done both at once thus saving costs and postage would have been too simple.

[airlineguy1980]

I AGREE completely with many guys here on conversion.let me tell you some thing i heard from one UK caa guy.i asked him how can i convert my singapore license to uk easa license.i did all my module exam again and now comes to experiance part i asked him how many years log book i need he said 5 years.but i know some guys who have given just 2 years experiance and 8 years as technician letter from quality department he got his basic license.there are so much irregularity on whats the standard.now here comes super part of part 147 crap.there are some companies in asia who have part 147 type rating courses.but they wont issue the certificate using that number in.for example X will be given local 147 numbers y will be given easa 147 certificate.even though both attend the same course.i dont know why.but what uk CAA care is the easa 147 number printed on certificate then you can get it on your license.thats it.why we can go long and long.but we are civilians they are authority.end of the story.i have converted my asian license into croatian jar 66 without sitting for single exam with all type rating once croatia join the EU guess what i get all my types and can exercise and gona look at the uk caa guy one more time in his face.all this is possible that guy in croatian authority like to help.nothing more he prepared his own assesment report compared everything pain stakingly .but next time when we do type course outside eu ask them if its not part 147 certificate refuse the course.then that create a lot of worm at work place.life goes on mate. if there is a case to be built we need proof of the virgin or BA guys on our side to support the case to pin caa on the wall

[airlineguy1980]

forget to mention.the guy sent 2 years log book experiance and 8 years technician experiance letter from non part 145.uk caa issued him license when just a month ago the caa informed in person at gatwick they need to see 5 year log book to count