General
(a) To approve the ground training in civil aviation field conducted at any training schools, centers, institutes, and/or department as a sufficient training to apply for issuing a license or adding training specifications, or permanent approval to perform some specific tasks in any civil aviation field. The school conducting this training shall be approved by the ECAA for that purpose.
(b) This Part prescribes the requirements for issuing aviation maintenance school certificates and general rules for the holders of those certificates and training specifications.
147.5 Approval of training schools, departments,
centers, institutes or divisions
(a) Application and issue:
An
application for a certificate and training specification, or for an additional
training specification, under this part is made on a form and in a manner
prescribed by the ECAA, and submitted with the following approval requirements:
(1) The applicant shall be granted a ministerial agreement to conduct
ground training activity for the others in civil aviation field;
(2) The training organization shall
nominate a person responsible for ensuring that it is in compliance with the
requirements for an approved organization.
(3) The applicant shall have a main office in ARE;
(4) The applicant shall submit an exposition manual for his
activities;
(5) The applicant shall have appropriate classrooms necessary to
conduct theoretical training activities;
(6) The applicant shall have workshops laboratories, testers or
appropriate training aids;
(7) The applicant shall have sufficient approved instructors to
conduct the different training activities, each in his specialization, along
with a chief instructor;
(8) The applicant shall present the training curriculums for planned
courses for approval;
(9) The applicant shall have sufficient number of technical
supervisors, responsible to supervise the courses;
(10) The applicant shall establish an internal evaluation program;
(11) The school shall be equipped with safety and fire fighting devices,
emergency equipment, appropriate advisory marks in clear places of the
buildings, along with appropriate emergency exits suitable for all abnormal
conditions and possess the necessary trained personnel for the fire
extinguishing and life saving to fulfill the requirements of industrial safety;
(12) The school
shall be equipped with necessary rest rooms; and
(13) The training organization shall establish a quality
assurance system, acceptable to the Licensing Authority granting the approval,
which ensures that training and instructional practices comply with all
relevant requirements.
(b) Approval procedure:
(1) At least sixty days
before conducting any training activities requiring approval, the training department shall submit the
following to the ECAA :
(i) An application for approval of the department using the
appropriate form;
(ii) Two copies of the training department internal exposition
fulfilling all information requested for approval; and
(iii) All necessary official documents for the requested approval.
(2) The applicant shall
allow ECAA inspectors to survey his capabilities in order to ensure its
compliance with the exposition presented, and to the requirements for approval.
The applicant will provide access to all facilities for inspection, and will be
notified with the ECAA inspectors’ recommendations within 2 weeks from the date
of achieving inspection.
(3) An applicant who meets
the requirements of this Part is entitled to an aviation maintenance training
certificate and associated training specifications prescribing such approvals
and limitations as are necessary in the interests of safety.
(c) Duration of certificates:
(1) An aviation Training
certificate and training specification are effective for two years unless until
it is surrendered, suspended, or revoked; and
(2) The holder of a certificate
that is surrendered, suspended, or revoked, shall return it to the ECAA.
(d) Display
of certificate
Each holder of an aviation Training certificate and
training specifications shall display them at a place in the school that is
normally accessible to the public and is not obscured. The certificate must be
available for inspection of the ECAA.
(e) Change of location
The holder of an aviation maintenance school
certificate may not make any change in the school’s location unless the change
is approved in advance. If the holder desires to change the location he shall
notify the ECAA, in writing. at least 30 days before the day the change is
contemplated. If he changes its location without approval, the certificate is
revoked.
(f) Inspection
The ECAA may, at any time, inspect an aviation maintenance facilities to determine its compliance with this Part. Such an inspection is normally made once each six months to determine if the school continues to meet the requirements under which it was originally certificated. After such an inspection is made, the school is notified in writing, of any deficiencies found during the inspection. Other informal inspections may be made from time to time.
(g) Internal Evaluation Program: Each certificate holder is responsible to:
(1) Establish and maintain an Internal Evaluation Program (IEP) that is acceptable to the ECAA. The IEP is a systematic self-analysis for evaluating the performance, policies and procedures of all departments within a certificate holder's organization;
(2)
Make the necessary revisions to the program, and
submit it to the ECAA whenever the ECAA finds that the program described in
paragraph (a) of this section does not contain adequate procedures and
standards;
(3) Identify the following personnel in the IEP policy and procedures
manual:
(i) The Internal Evaluation Program Manager who reports directly to the certificate holder's Chairman or equivalent and shall be accepted by the ECAA; and
(ii) The Internal Evaluation technically qualified members that have
satisfactorily passed an auditing training acceptable to the ECAA.
(4) Submit to the ECAA, at least quarterly audit planning schedule. The ECAA shall have access to all audit reports and may choose to attend the scheduled audits or conduct random audits of any area. Regulatory findings made by the company’s IEP audit team shall be submitted under the Voluntary Disclosure Program (EAC 00-1, as amended). Any findings by an ECAA audit team that has not been reported by the company’s IEP process shall be processed under standard enforcement; and
(5) Guidance material for the IEP program could be found in EAC 002 as amended.
(h) Advertising:
(1) A certificated aviation maintenance school may not make any
statement relating to itself that is false or is designed to mislead any person
considering enrollment therein; and
(2) Whenever an aviation maintenance school indicates in advertising
that it is a certificated school, it shall clearly distinguish between its
approved courses (training specifications) and those that are not approved.
147.7 Training exposition manual
(a) The exposition shall contain the following details:
(1) Principal address of the training department in A.R.E and also the
address of its branches;
(2) Name and legal position of training department and ministerial
agreement to allow it to execute ground training activities in civil aviation
field;
(3) Description of its building and contents as: classrooms,
laboratories, workshops, testers, and training aid devices, and its divisions,
leisure rooms and libraries if any, attached with it all contracts with other
training facilities to complete any training;
(4) Demonstrate the organization structure and list of instructors and
technical supervisors' names and approved signatures;
(5) The training plan, schedules and leisure time of instructors,
trainees and training department. Avoiding exceeding standard legal times
allowed;
(6) General rules of training departments describing admission
requirements and continuation in different studies, and also rules of failure
and success and attendance limitations and different evaluation processes;
(7) Copies of proposed evaluation forms for courses, instructors and
training aids etc., to be distributed to trainees, supervisors and inspectors;
(8) Procedures and time limitations for keeping records, forms, and
exams;
(9) Safety procedures provided meeting industrial safety requirements
for buildings and activities
conducted within them;
(10) Forms of certificates or courses results, and training orders;
(11) Certificates
issued from different authorities if any; and
(12) Procedures to ensure that the training and procedures manual is
amended as necessary to keep the information contained therein up to date.
The training department shall submit a request for
exposition approval, attached with it two copies of its exposition.
(b) Approval procedure:
(1) The applicant shall
provide all facilities for ECAA inspectors to perform the required inspections;
(2) The applicant will be
advised with the ECAA recommendations within 2 weeks from achieving
inspections; and
(3) Upon fulfilling all
ECASA recommendations a certificate of approval will be issued, specifying
approval limitations and training specifications.
147.9 To maintain Training certificate:
(a) ECAA will maintain an
effective oversight programme of the approved training organization to ensure
continuing compliance with the approval requirements.
(b)
Any major change occurring to the training facility shall be submitted to the
ECAA at least 3 weeks before any changes is made on a form and in a manner
prescribed by the ECAA.
(c) The ECAA may suspend the approval whenever any
deviation from requirements occurs (approval could be suspended either
partially to some training specifications or completely). And if the
requirements are not fulfilled within the time granted, it may be revoked
completely or partially. Any changes in the organization structure or address
of the training department or its rules or certificates, shall be notified to
the ECAA within 3 weeks, using the appropriate form issued by the ECAA for that
purpose and provide all facilities to ECAA inspectors to review those changes
in order to approve them.