Guidance

Airworthiness for military aircraft fundamentals

Updated 17 May 2023

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Course aim

The 3 day AMAC Fundamentals course provides delegates with a thorough understanding of airworthiness organizations, policies and processes. The lectures are a combination of academic learning by Cranfield University academic staff and training briefs by MAA and military subject matter specialists.

The target audience for this course are single systems or platform Letter of Airworthiness Authority (LoAA) Holders within the project team environment and Front Line Command (FLC) personnel supporting Chief Air Engineers and Military Continuing Airworthiness Managers (MilCAM). Applicants should review their suitability for this course with line managers and MAA Regulatory Publications (MRP) mandate if applicable.

Applicants are expected to be familiar with the role of Delivery teams and Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization (CAMO) and prepared to engage fully in group discussions and technical debates. This course is not aimed at those new to the military air domain, or have little or no experience of airworthiness as the delegate will need to apply airworthiness principles taught in context to their environment.

The course has an assessment that tests the individual’s ability to interpret and apply the MRP to delivery team and FLC airworthiness activities.

Outline of syllabus

Subject matter covered during the course:

  • airworthiness principles
  • military airworthiness development and the maa regulatory framework
  • concept of certification and approvals
  • role of a project team
  • type airworthiness
  • continuing airworthiness
  • safety management systems and risk management
  • human factors and error management
  • lessons learned from accident
  • release to service
  • legal accountability
  • integrity management of military aircraft
  • beyond life airworthiness management

Entry requirements

Although no formal qualifications are specified for entry to the course, selection is based upon the following priorities:

  1. junior officers and civil servants (STSI / C2), or below, who exercise or are about to exercise formally delegated airworthiness authority
  2. officers (OF2 and below), senior non-commissioned officers (SNCO) and civil servants (STSI and below) who have an airworthiness responsibility but without formal delegation of authority. For OF3 / Prof II / C2 and above, applications should be submitted for AMAC-P
  3. other applicants on a fill up basis depending on suitability and at the discretion of the course sponsor
  4. places are also available to overseas military forces

Location

Defence Academy Shrivenham

Course dates

Dates

Application procedure

email: courses.shrivenham@cranfield.ac.uk

Apply for a course

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