Order 8300.10 - Airworthiness Inspector's Handbook
CHAPTER 22. Certificate Airframe and/or Powerplant Mechanic/Added Rating
9. EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS. Section 65.77 requires the applicant to have practical experience in maintaining airframes and/or powerplants. At least 18 months of practical experience is required for the appropriate rating requested. For a certificate with both ratings, the requirement is for at least 30 months experience concurrently performing the duties appropriate to both ratings. If the 30 months concurrently performing the duties appropriate to both ratings has not been met, then calculate each rating separately using the 18-month requirement for each.
A. The practical experience must provide the applicant with basic knowledge of and skills with the procedures, practices, materials, tools, machine tools, and equipment used in aircraft construction, alteration, maintenance, and inspection.
B. Experience gained from the military, work as an airframe or powerplant mechanic or work on an experimental amateur-built aircraft will be evaluated on its own merits to determine whether it fulfills the experience requirements. When evaluating military experience, inspectors are not to accept Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) or Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSC) “carte blanche” as qualifications to accepting experience of § 65.77. Even though the MOS suggest authorization for either the airframe, powerplant, or both the A&P certificates, the inspector will only endorse FAA Form 8610-2, Airman Certificate and/or Rating Application, after ensuring, by a thorough interview and detailed review of records, that the person qualifies under § 65.77.
C. An applicant is not expected to be highly proficient in overhauls, major repairs, or major alterations in the minimum 18 months experience.
D. Powerplant tests will include questions and projects on propellers that must be completed successfully regardless of the applicant’s experience.
E. In evaluating part-time practical aviation mechanic experience, an equivalent of 18 months (or 30 months) based on a standard 40-hour work week is acceptable. The months need not be consecutive. A standard work week has 8 hours per day for 5 days per week, thus totaling 40 hours per week and approximately 160 hours per month.
G. Evaluation of Experience. Applicants who have not graduated from an FAA-approved AMTS must present documents from an employer, co-worker, or other sources satisfactory to the Administrator to establish the required record of time and experience.
(1) Applicants will document a proportionate amount of experience directly applicable to the certificate and ratings sought. The applicant must have verifiable experience in 50 percent of the subject areas listed for the rating sought (see 14 CFR part 147, appendix B, C, and D) in order to be found eligible.
(2) The FAA inspector must evaluate the documents submitted to determine the applicants’ eligibility for a test authorization.
CHAPTER 22. Certificate Airframe and/or Powerplant Mechanic/Added Rating
9. EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS. Section 65.77 requires the applicant to have practical experience in maintaining airframes and/or powerplants. At least 18 months of practical experience is required for the appropriate rating requested. For a certificate with both ratings, the requirement is for at least 30 months experience concurrently performing the duties appropriate to both ratings. If the 30 months concurrently performing the duties appropriate to both ratings has not been met, then calculate each rating separately using the 18-month requirement for each.
A. The practical experience must provide the applicant with basic knowledge of and skills with the procedures, practices, materials, tools, machine tools, and equipment used in aircraft construction, alteration, maintenance, and inspection.
B. Experience gained from the military, work as an airframe or powerplant mechanic or work on an experimental amateur-built aircraft will be evaluated on its own merits to determine whether it fulfills the experience requirements. When evaluating military experience, inspectors are not to accept Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) or Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSC) “carte blanche” as qualifications to accepting experience of § 65.77. Even though the MOS suggest authorization for either the airframe, powerplant, or both the A&P certificates, the inspector will only endorse FAA Form 8610-2, Airman Certificate and/or Rating Application, after ensuring, by a thorough interview and detailed review of records, that the person qualifies under § 65.77.
C. An applicant is not expected to be highly proficient in overhauls, major repairs, or major alterations in the minimum 18 months experience.
D. Powerplant tests will include questions and projects on propellers that must be completed successfully regardless of the applicant’s experience.
E. In evaluating part-time practical aviation mechanic experience, an equivalent of 18 months (or 30 months) based on a standard 40-hour work week is acceptable. The months need not be consecutive. A standard work week has 8 hours per day for 5 days per week, thus totaling 40 hours per week and approximately 160 hours per month.
G. Evaluation of Experience. Applicants who have not graduated from an FAA-approved AMTS must present documents from an employer, co-worker, or other sources satisfactory to the Administrator to establish the required record of time and experience.
(1) Applicants will document a proportionate amount of experience directly applicable to the certificate and ratings sought. The applicant must have verifiable experience in 50 percent of the subject areas listed for the rating sought (see 14 CFR part 147, appendix B, C, and D) in order to be found eligible.
(2) The FAA inspector must evaluate the documents submitted to determine the applicants’ eligibility for a test authorization.
