1. AVOTEK
1.1. Introduction to Aircraft Maintenance (Revised Edition)ISBN 10:0-9780819-6-2 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NUMBER
1.2. Aircraft Powerplant Maintenance (Second Edition) ISBN 10: 1-933189-12-6 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NUMBER
1.3. Aircraft Structural Maintenance (Revised Edition) ISBN 0-9708109-5-4 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NUMBER
1.4. Aircraft System Maintenance ISBN 0-9708109-4-6 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NUMBER
2. FAA
2.1. General Handbook: AC 65-9 2.2. Airframe Handbook: AC 65-15 2.3. Powerplant Handbook: AC 65-12
2.4. Aircraft Inspection, Repair & Alterations: AC 43.13-1B chg 1 &2A
2.5. FAR’s Parts 1 through 199 2.6. FAA Airworthiness Directives 2.7. FAA Type Certificate Data Sheets 2.8. FAA Supplemental Type Certificates 2.9. FAA Orders as required
3. Manufacture Maintenance Manuals
3.1. Will be maintained for “Instructional Use” only.
3.2. Manufacturer Maintenance Manuals used for “return to service” will be verified as current prior to use.
4. FAA will be notified of any changes to assigned technical publications prior to using.
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1. FAA grade-of-method will be method “a”. A percentage value for each subject will be used to attain a passing grade of 80%.
1.1. Grading will be on a percentile system for all written tests.
EXAMPLE: The number of right answered questions divided by the total questions asked.
1.2. No major course grade of less than 80% shall be acceptable for a certification certificate.
1.3. Performance grades will be based on the completion of mandatory lab tasks and acceptance of any project is made a matter Of Record.
1.4. Scoring methods will be a minimum of 80% for a passing grade.
1.5. Completed practical projects are the only way to satisfy a project requirement
1.6. Missed written/low score tests or Incomplete/Missed Practical Projects must be made-up during the makeup period listed on the project sheet.
1.7. A student who fails a written test will be able to
retake a make-up written test during the make-up period.
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SCLA SCHOOL OF AVIATION TECHNOLOGY
Credit for Prior Instruction or Experience
1. SCLA School of Aviation Technology will not graduate a student with a certificate or degree in Aviation Technology unless they complete all curriculum requirements. However, Victor Valley College/SCLA School of Aviation Technology will credit a student with instruction in conformance with Victor Valley College policy 4235 and Title V Section 55050. The process for requesting credit is published in the Victor Valley College catalog.
Generally this will be as follows:
1.1. Victor Valley College/SCLA School of Aviation Technology may credit a student with instruction satisfactorily completed at:
1.1.1. A regionally accredited university, college, junior college.
1.1.2. A regionally accredited vocational, technical, or trade school.
1.1.3. ACE (American Council on Education) accredited or certified programs in military technical schools.
1.1.4. An FAA certified aviation maintenance technical school.
1.2. Victor Valley College/SCLA School of Aviation Technology will determine the amount of credit to be allowed:
1.2.1. By a challenge examination equal to the one given to the student who completes a comparable
required curriculum subject at the crediting school.
1.2.2. By an evaluation of an authenticated transcript from the student’s school.
1.2.3. In the case or an applicant from a military school, on the basis of a DANTES Subject Standardized Test scores and challenge examination, if required.
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1.3. Victor Valley College /SCLA School of Aviation
Technology may credit a student with previous aviation maintenance experience comparable to required curriculum subjects. To do so, the college must determine the
amount of credit to be allowed by documents verifying that experience, and by giving the student a challenge exam equal to the one given to students who complete the comparable required curriculum subject at the school.
1.4. Victor Valle College/SCLA School of Aviation Technology may credit a student seeking an additional rating with previous satisfactory completion of the General Aviation portion of an Aviation Maintenance Technical School
(AMTS) Curriculum.
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GLOSSARY
This glossary of terms clarifies some of the terms used. When used with in the context of part 147, these terms apply to SCLA AMTS 147 Aviation School.
1. Accreditation. This term refers exclusively to school credited within the United States and Canada.
2. Aviation Technician Education Council (ATEC). The AMTS industry association.
3. Certified Instructors. Those instructors who hold FAA mechanic certificates and the ratings appropriate for the subjects to be taught.
4. Certification. This term refers to AMTSs certified by the FAA.
5. Check. Means to verify proper operation. A check is performed to verify a proper operation without the item necessarily qualifying for return to service condition. At an AMTS, the item checked does not have to be the item
overhauled.
6. Common Handtools. Small, ordinary tools such as ratchets and sockets.
7. Flight Standards District Office (FSDO). The local FAA office controlling a particular part 147 AMTS.
8. Instruction Hour. The educational unit hour, as used by an AMTS, that consists of a time period of 50 to 60 minutes.
This instructional time period conforms to the existing practices at many education institutions.
9. Instruction Aids. Equipment used to provide instruction.
Examples include diagrams, visual aids, computers,
interactive software, aircraft, and mock-ups of aircraft, engines, and components, as well as actual components, such
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not required to meet return-to-service standards.
10. Laboratory. Facilities for providing instruction in
general principles that may require student demonstrations or participation. Determination of what laboratory
equipment is required depends on the subjects taught and the teaching level at which it is taught.
11. OVERHAUL. To disassemble, inspect, and repair as
necessary, and check in accordance with FAA-acceptable instructions; that is, manufacturers’ maintenance manuals, FAA directives, and service bulletins. For an AMTS, the overhaul requirement in a teaching scenario does not
require the overhauled component to meet return-to-service mechanical tolerances. For example, a run out turbine powerplant may be adequate to teach students overhaul techniques, but could present a danger if operated.
12. Practical Project. A hands-on assignment that requires the use of manipulative skills taught at a teaching level of 2 or 3. A practical project generally does not include non-manipulative activities such as book reports.
However, for certain required subjects such as maintenance publications, the use of FAA directives or manufacturers’
data constitutes a practical project.
13. Principal Maintenance Inspector (PMI). The representative of the Flight Standards District Office (FSDO) with
principal responsibility for the certification and audit of a part 147 AMTS.
14. Ratings. An AMTS may be certificated for the following ratings: airframe, powerplant, or combined A&P. The
general portion of the required curriculum is not a rating, but it is a required part of all the ratings.
15. Return to Service. With respect to skills developed to make a part or component airworthy or to be airworthy condition.
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16. Shop. Facilities for providing instruction on projects taught at teaching level 2 or 3. The shop environment should resemble a typical aviation repair facility.
17. Shop Equipment. Machinery, such as fabricating devices, sheet metal equipment, and battery chargers.
18. Special Tools. Highly specialized tools, such as tensionometers, micrometers, and torque wrenches.
19. Specialized Instructors. Non-FAA-certificated instructors who have been approved by the FAA to teach pertinent
subjects at a particular AMTS must submit to the FAA a list of instructors and substitute instructors. The list must specify which subjects each instructor will teach. Then the FAA approves or disapproves each instructor
individually. An instructor who does not hold an FAA mechanic certificate cannot be approved to teach subjects other than certain general curriculum subjects, such as mathematics, physics, and mechanical drawing. The list of approve instructors must be maintained by the AMTS.
20. Teaching Levels.
a. Level 1. Level 1 requires knowledge of general
principles and instruction by lecture, demonstration, and discussion, but no practical application or development of manipulative skill.
Teaching aids or instructional equipment may include
charts, books, diagrams, or other visual teaching aids. If an AMTS chooses to teach level 1 course incorporating
actual components, the components do not have to be operational.
b. Level 2. Level 2 requires knowledge of general
principles, limited practical application, and development of sufficient manipulative skill to perform basic
operations, as well as instruction by lecture, demonstration, discussion, and limited practical
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application. This teaching level requires some hands-on manipulative skills and their accompanying actual or stimulated components/equipment, but still may be taught primarily in the classroom, environment.
c. Level 3. Level 3 requires knowledge of general principles, performance of a high degree of practical
application, development of sufficient manipulative skills to simulate return to service, and instruction by lecture, demonstration, and discussion. This teaching level
requires hands –on manipulative skill, as well as
sufficient and appropriate instructional aides to train the student to develop manipulative skills sufficient to
simulate return to service. At this level the teaching aids must be similar to, or the actual items of, equipment on which the student is expected to develop required skill levels. A level 3 subject cannot be taught solely by
lecture in the classroom; the appropriate training aids and hands-on experience must be used.
21. Troubleshoot. To analyze and identify malfunctions, and to identify the source of trouble in and airframe, powerplant, or aircraft component. For the purposes of AMTSs, the item of equipment or simulator training aids must be in
operating condition. For example, a turbine powerplant must be operational for the student to trouble shoot.