FAA A&P Question
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FAA A&P Question
Can anyone please explain somethings about the FAA A&P license for me?
firstly, do you need to submit documents such as type courses to the FAA to have the authority to sign out an aircraft or do you just have your A&P and keep the type course documents to yourself?
Second, is there an avionics license?
Thirdly, you must have your A&P for 3 years before you can get an IA, but is your IA good forever? Do you need to work on N registered aircraft to maintain the IA? The A&P is good forever as long as you are active in the field but is the same for the IA or do you have to prove it and maintain it?
Fourthly, can you go from A&P to EASA B1/B2.... I am pretty sure not you must write the exams, take the modules etc, but thought i would confirm anyways....
Thanks for the help guys....
firstly, do you need to submit documents such as type courses to the FAA to have the authority to sign out an aircraft or do you just have your A&P and keep the type course documents to yourself?
Second, is there an avionics license?
Thirdly, you must have your A&P for 3 years before you can get an IA, but is your IA good forever? Do you need to work on N registered aircraft to maintain the IA? The A&P is good forever as long as you are active in the field but is the same for the IA or do you have to prove it and maintain it?
Fourthly, can you go from A&P to EASA B1/B2.... I am pretty sure not you must write the exams, take the modules etc, but thought i would confirm anyways....
Thanks for the help guys....
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From: Carry be Anne
With your A&P certificate you can sign off anything from from a Beechcraft to a Boeing! You don't need a type rating. If you're on the airliners, your company will dictate what you can and cannot sign. You are effectively an extension of Maintenance control, you cannot deviate from their instructions.
There is no avionics licence per-se, but there are specialists that would fall under an FAR145 establishment.
Your IA lasts for two years and has to be renewed every odd year in March. Next renewal for all IA's is March 2011. In order to keep your IA valid you must have performed at least 4 annuals, or 4 major repairs or alterations or a progressive inspection on an N reg in a 12 month period. If not you will have to attend an FAA sponsored IA renewal course.
EASA does not exempt any of the written exams for B1/B2 with your A&P, but they might take the experience into consideration.
There is no avionics licence per-se, but there are specialists that would fall under an FAR145 establishment.
Your IA lasts for two years and has to be renewed every odd year in March. Next renewal for all IA's is March 2011. In order to keep your IA valid you must have performed at least 4 annuals, or 4 major repairs or alterations or a progressive inspection on an N reg in a 12 month period. If not you will have to attend an FAA sponsored IA renewal course.
EASA does not exempt any of the written exams for B1/B2 with your A&P, but they might take the experience into consideration.
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When one is working for a repair station, one is working under the repair station certification, and generally does not sign off a repair using one's own certificate number.
No type certification is required (or available) for aviation maintenance technicians in the US. The FAA has been rumored to be initiating such action at some future date, but this has been a rumor for a very long time.
The Inspection Authorization comes with an expiration, and it can be renewed in several ways; either by work experience, or by attending biannual training.
No type certification is required (or available) for aviation maintenance technicians in the US. The FAA has been rumored to be initiating such action at some future date, but this has been a rumor for a very long time.
The Inspection Authorization comes with an expiration, and it can be renewed in several ways; either by work experience, or by attending biannual training.
