Maintenance Regulations Project

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Maintenance Regulations Project
Asia Pacific Aviation Training Hong Kong 5
September 2007
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The Presentation

• Provide background information
• Safety outcome based legislation
• Part 66 Maintenance Personnel Licensing
• Part 147 Maintenance Training Organisation
  approvals
• CAO100.66
• Competency Based Training
• Adoption of EASA-like Regulations

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Background to the project

• CEOs direction late in 2005
• Form a Joint industry/CASA team
• Use advisors and consult with stakeholders
• Have a result as soon as possible
• Goals
• World standard aviation maintenance regulations
• Trial this form of regulatory reform
• Forming the team
• The Team needed to be small and have good
  sectorial coverage from industry and CASA.

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Team Members

• Team leader (CASA)
• Maintenance licensing (CASA)
• GA representative (Industry)
• MRO representative (Industry)
• RPT operator representative (Industry)
• Maintenance (consultation) Sub-committee
  representative (industry)
• Training representative (Industry)
• GA Representative (CASA)
• Legal drafting (CASA), GA Rep (CASA)

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Safety outcome based legislation

• Simply put outcome based legislation allows an
  acceptable safety outcome to be reached via
  multiple or various pathways. This involves a
  simple regulation expressing the desired outcome
  supported by an Acceptable Means of Compliance
  (AMC) and Guidance Material (GM)
• An organisation provides an exposition to the
  regulatory authority detailing how the
  organisation will conduct its operations and
  maintain the desired level of safety. Once the
  exposition is approved the authority conducts
  surveillance ensuring the organisation continues
  to operate in accordance with its approved
  exposition

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EASA REGULATIONS STRUCTURE
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Part 66 Maintenance Personnel Licensing

• This Part establishes the requirements for the
  issue of an Aircraft Maintenance Licence, other
  permissions and the conditions of validity and
  use of these licences and permission, for
  aeroplanes, helicopters and other specialised
  maintenance tasks
• CASR Part 66 is intended to be equivalent to the
  EASA Part 66
• Emphasis concentrates on privilege and scope of
  certifying staff
• Takes in to account new technologies and human
  factors as well as operational and commercial
  realities

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Part 66 Policy Overview

• Industry experience times relate to competency
  based training for basic licenses. They are
• Category A 2 years
• Categories B1.2 and B1.4 3 years
• Categories B1.1, B1.3, B2 and B3 4 years
• Type training includes theory and practical
  elements
• A generic Aviation Maintenance Specialist (AMS)
  certificate will be introduced to allow
  flexibility for maintenance activities not
  covered by a licence, such as balloon maintenance

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Part 66 Policy Overview

• Aircraft below 5,700kg can be covered by a B1, B2
  or B3 licence within the scope of the licence
  held and normally without further rating
  requirements
• Turbine engines that may never be fitted to
  aeroplanes above 5,700kg MTOW or helicopters
  above 3,175kg MTOW will not normally require a
  type rating unless deemed to require one by CASA
• A B3 licence for use specifically in the Aerial
  work and General Aviation/small aircraft freight
  sector is being developed. Overlap between B1/2
  and B3 has to be considered

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Part 147 Maintenance Training Organisations

• This Part establishes the requirements to be meet
  by an organisation to be approved by CASA to
  undertake training and/or assessment of
  individuals as specified in Part 66 for licences
  and ratings
• Such training and/or assessment will form basis
  for issue of a CASA licence. Replaces the current
  CASA basic examination/ schedule of experience
  process
• The training is based around the requirements of
  the Australian Competency Based Training System

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Part 147 Policy Overview

• An organisational approval based on assessment of
  the organisations exposition
• Provision of recognition of prior learning (RPL)
  which can be undertaken by approved organisations
  and is then usable in a 145
• Includes a provision to establish an appropriate
  relationship with a maintenance organisation to
  assist with practical training

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What CAO100.66 does do

• The new CAO offers the voluntary option for
  Australian aircraft maintenance personnel to
  obtain maintenance authorities and ratings based
  on the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)
  categories A, B1 and B2
• It gives recognition to specifically approved
  maintenance training organisations operating
  under detailed, self-prepared, expositions
  setting out their training objectives, resources
  and capabilities
• These licences and approvals will soon come under
  CASR Parts 66 and 147 respectively. This CAO is
  intended to provide access to the new licence
  categories in advance of that legislation using
  maintenance authorities

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How to gain a CAO100.66 B1 or B2 authority
Provide a successful assessment from the RO to
CASA and demonstrate eligibility for issue of
authority. CASA will issue.
Attend a Recognised Organisation (RO) and be
assessed as competent for the full authority
Assessment can include training and/or
Recognition of Prior Learning
For a rating successfully undertake specific type
training (knowledge and practical) at an RO,
applicable to authority scope
Have the specific type rating endorsed on your
authority by CASA
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Australian Competency Based Training System

• Competency based training commenced nationally in
  the late 1980s
• System has become very mature and is used for
  most vocational training in Australia
• Aviation is the last to adopt it but benefits
  from the experience of many other licence/trade
  structures
• Makes Australia a world leader in the use of
  competency based training for aviation

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Competency Based Training

• Comprises a combination of theoretical knowledge
  training, theory examinations, hand skills
  training, practical training and assessment of
  practical ability on the job
• This results in an assessment of competency
  which, once gained, will allow an individual to
  fully meet the needs of the task
• Records of achievement of competency in relation
  to specific A, B1, B2 and B3 syllabi will be
  provided from the 147 organisation to CASA and a
  licence will be issued on request

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Competency Based Training

• Competency based training differs from
  traditional training, examination and experience
  requirements in how the experience is monitored
• During the experience phase of qualification the
  individual is assessed against
• A task
• Performance criteria related to the task
• A range of variable systems related to the task
• Level of supervision when undertaking a task

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Adoption of EASA like Regulations

• CAO 100.66 operational from Feb 07 with one
  organisation approved for basic training and
  others undergoing approval
• Five organisations presently processing
  applications for organisational approval for Type
  training
• Maintenance suite consisting of four Regulation
  Parts (42, 66, 145 and 147) will be drafted by
  Dec 07, further consulted and fine tuned and made
  Jun 08
• Implementation will then commence quite quick
  for licensing and training organisations. Longer
  period for AOCs and maintenance organisational
  approvals

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Questions ?