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Here is some information from Transport Canada and its ratings for
aircraft maintenance engineer (AME) licences:
(i) M1 -- small non turbo-jet aircraft (includes all
airframe, engines, propellers, components, structures, and systems of
those aircraft);
(ii) M2 --all aircraft not included in M1 excluding
balloons (includes all airframes, engines, propellers, components,
structures, and systems of those aircraft);
(iii) E -- aircraft electronic systems (includes communication,
pulse, navigation, auto flight, flight path computation, instruments and the
electrical elements of other aircraft systems, and any structural
work directly associated with the maintenance of those systems);
(iv) S -- aircraft structures (includes all airframe structures);
(v) Balloons.
The requirements for issue of these licences is as follows:
Age - The applicant must be 21 years old;
Training - A certificate for the successful completion of
basic training appropriate to the rating being applied for is
required. The applicant may obtain basic training through distance
learning, however, they will not be credited for the experience
requirement unless they provide a certificate from a training
organization whose curriculum has been approved by Transport Canada.
This is normally a technical school such as SAIT or NAIT;
Knowledge - Transport Canada approved training courses include
technical exams on the subjects covered by the course. If the
applicant chooses a correspondence course, the technical knowledge
exams will be administered by Transport Canada;
Experience - The total amount of experience required depends
on the rating applied for. For instance, the M and the E ratings
require four years of
total aircraft maintenance, the S rating requires three years, and
the Balloon rating requires 120 hours. The amount of experience
credited for experience through basic training depends upon the
approved school, but up to a maximum of two years for M or E ratings
and 18 months for an S rating;
Skill - The applicant is required to prove the performance of
a selection of maintenance tasks appropriate to the rating.
This Web site will link you to a listing of approved
training organizations in Canada.
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