Keeping Up-to-Date, Currency

AME needs to keep his knowledge and skills up-to-date 

             Aviation industry is dynamic. 
            Operators change their aircraft, 
            New aircraft types and variants are introduced, 
            new aircraft maintenance practices are introduced. 

 To maintain his currency, AME must keep abreast of pertinent information relating to:

  1. new aircraft types or variants;
  2. new technologies and new aircraft systems;
  3. new tools and maintenance practices;
  4. modifications to current aircraft and systems he works on;
  5. revised maintenance procedures and practices.

AME are likely to keep up-to-date by:

  1. undertaking update courses;
  2. reading briefing material, memos and bulletins;
  3. studying maintenance manual amendments


CAR 145.A.35 Certifying and support staff- (d) The organisation shall ensure that all certifying staff and support staff receive sufficient continuation training in each two year period to ensure that such staff have up-to-date knowledge of relevant technology, organisation procedures and human factor issues.
    (e) The organisation shall establish a programme for continuation training for certifying staff and support staff including a procedure to ensure compliance with the relevant paragraphs of 145.A.35 as the basis for issuing certification authorisations under this CAR to certifying staff, and a procedure to ensure compliance with CAR 66.

        From a human factors point of view, small changes to the technology or procedures
concerning existing aircraft carry potentially the greatest risk. 
      These do not usuallywarrant formal training and may merely be minor changes to the maintenancemanual. 
       Although there should be mechanisms in place to record all such changes, this presumes that the engineer will consult the updates. It is part of the engineer’s individual responsibility to maintain his currency.

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