Just ask Ken, you don't have to be a mechanic to keep an airline flying, any scab can do it. Boy that says a lot for a craft that people would like to see become a skilled craft.
So what are the requirements to be an AMT again?
Yes, ask me. You DO need to be a mechanic to REPAIR/MAINTAIN aircraft for an airline. Being a SCAB does NOT qualify a person to do this though.
Coward, here are some of the requirements:
1. You must be
o at least 18 years old;
o able to read, write, and understand English.
2. You must get 18 months of practical experience with either power plants or airframes, or 30 months of practical experience working on both at the same time. As an alternative to this experience requirement, you can graduate from an FAA-Approved Aviation Maintenance Technician School.
3. You must pass three types of tests;
o a written examination
o an oral test
o a practical test
(a) Eligibility standard. No person is eligible to hold a certificate, rating, or authorization issued under this part when the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has notified the FAA in writing that the person poses a security threat.
§ 65.77 Experience requirements.
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Each applicant for a mechanic certificate or rating must present either an appropriate graduation certificate or certificate of completion from a certificated cated aviation maintenance technician school or documentary evidence, satisfactory to the Administrator, of—
(a) At least 18 months of practical experience with the procedures, practices, materials, tools, machine tools, and equipment generally used in constructing, maintaining, or altering airframes, or powerplants appropriate to the rating sought; or
(B) At least 30 months of practical experience concurrently performing the duties appropriate to both the airframe and powerplant ratings.
§ 65.79 Skill requirements.
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Each applicant for a mechanic certificate or rating must pass an oral and a practical test on the rating he seeks. The tests cover the applicant's basic skill in performing practical projects on the subjects covered by the written test for that rating. An applicant for a powerplant rating must show his ability to make satisfactory minor repairs to, and minor alterations of, propellers.
§ 65.80 Certificated aviation maintenance technician school students.
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Whenever an aviation maintenance technician school certificated under part 147 of this chapter shows to an FAA inspector that any of its students has made satisfactory progress at the school and is prepared to take the oral and practical tests prescribed by §65.79, that student may take those tests during the final subjects of his training in the approved curriculum, before he meets the applicable experience requirements of §65.77 and before he passes each section of the written test prescribed by §65.75.
By the way Coward, notice the term "aviation maintenance technician"?
Now, care to identify yourself other than your cowardly alias?
