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The high product and process complexity as well as requirements to product quality and safety formulated by aviation legislation forces aeronautical organisations to focus particularly on qualification of their staff.
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- 1.
See AMC 145.A.30(e) 3
- 2.
Characteristics of third party staff qualification are not detailed in this section, see Sect. 9.3.5.
- 3.
See e.g. GM No. 2 to 21A.126 (A) (3) (2); GM 21A.145 (A) or AMC 145.A.30 (e).
- 4.
See AMC 145.A.30 (e).
- 5.
For detailed information on requirements for certifying staff in production see requirements of national aviation authorities
- 6.
See AMC 21A.145 (d) (1) (5).
- 7.
Organisations with a Part 147 approval have the right to train staff for officially approved maintenance organisations. In detail, this training organisations may perform: a) approved basic training, b) recognised type-specific training and examinations as well as d) issue training certificates. For further information on EASA Part 66 and 147 see grey box in Sect. 3.1.4.
- 8.
With regard to the specification of the fundamental scope of authorisation of above AML see in particular IR Continuing Airworthiness – Part 66.A.20 as well as GM 66.A.20 (a).
- 9.
See IR Continuing Airworthiness EASA Part 66–66.A.20.
- 10.
IR Continuing Airworthiness EASA Part 66–66.A.30 (5).
- 11.
See AMC 145.A.35 (j).
- 12.
See IR Continuing Airworthiness Part 145–145.A.30 as well as IR Initial Airworthiness Part 21–21A.145 (c).
- 13.
The relevant wording of the Implementing Rules Certification and Airworthiness is rather vague: IR Continuing Airworthiness EASA Part 145–145.30 (e): The organisation shall establish and control the competence of personnel involved in any maintenance, development of maintenance programmes, airworthiness reviews, management and quality audits in accordance with a procedure and to a standard agreed by the competent authority. IR Initial Airworthiness Part 21–21A.145 (c): “ … staff of all levels has sufficient authorisation to fulfil the tasks transferred to them … ”
- 14.
See AMC 145.A.30(e)
- 15.
All requirements with regard to design-organisational staff qualification are regulated by IR Initial Airworthiness Part 21–21A.243 (d) and the associated Guidance Material.
- 16.
GM No. 1 to 21A.243 (D) (the 3.3) defines the following information as minimum extent: Name and date of birth, general education, experience and training, task/position within the design organisation, scope of authorisation, date of issue of the initial authorisation and as far as applicable expiration and identification number of the authorisation. Additional staff archiving requirements are equally available in above GM.
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The Dirty Dozen is a concept developed by Gordon Dupont, employee of Transport Canada, in 1993.
- 18.
See IR Continuing Airworthiness Part 145–145.A.30 (e), 145.A.65 (b) as well as implicitly GM 21A.3B (b).
- 19.
See AMC 145.A.30 (e).
- 20.
In practice often also abbreviated as “Conti” training.
- 21.
See IR Continuing Airworthiness Part 145–145.A.35 (d); EN 9110 6.2.2 (g).
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Hinsch, M. (2019). Personnel. In: Industrial Aviation Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54740-3_10
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