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Aviation licensing, Course 4: licensed organisations and keeping current

Licensed organisations and keeping current

By Aerospace Garage Desk · Practitioner · 45 minutes · 24 narrated pages · Updated October 2026

What you will be able to do

  • ✓ Name the certificates and approvals held by operators, maintenance, CAMO, training, design and production organisations, aerodromes and air navigation providers, and the rules that set them
  • ✓ Describe the common approval pattern from application to continuing oversight
  • ✓ Tell apart validity, revalidation, renewal and recency for pilots, engineers and controllers
  • ✓ Explain recurrent checks and training, and evidence-based and competency-based training
  • ✓ Explain graded findings, enforcement tools, fair process and holders' reporting duties
  • ✓ Describe Part-IS, new drone operator approvals and workforce pressures, and recap the programme

Course content

Session 1 · Organisations need approvals too

4.1

  1. Airlines hold certificates too · free preview
  2. Organisations that maintain and train
  3. Airports, air navigation and manufacturers
  4. Worked example: one new aircraft type, five approvals
Session 2 · How an organisation is approved

4.2

  1. Application, exposition and named people
  2. A management system with safety at its centre
  3. Audit, certificate and continuing oversight
  4. Worked example: planning an AOC application
Session 3 · Validity, recency and currency

4.3

  1. Three clocks: licence, rating and medical
  2. Recency for pilots
  3. Engineers and controllers
  4. Worked example: back on the line after five months away
Session 4 · Recurrent checks and training

4.4

  1. The checking cycle for airline pilots
  2. Evidence-based and competency-based training
  3. Engineers and controllers keep learning too
  4. From the investigation file: Air France Flight 447 and the training gap
Session 5 · Oversight, findings, suspension and revocation

4.5

  1. Surveillance and findings
  2. Warning, limitation, suspension, revocation
  3. Your own part: reporting and just culture
  4. Worked example: two findings, from audit to closure
Session 6 · Where approvals and currency are heading

4.6

  1. Information security joins safety
  2. New aircraft, new kinds of approval
  3. People, demand and the programme in review
  4. Worked example: one roster, every clock

Who this course is for

Upskill courses are for professional development and are not approved by any aviation authority. Learner Terms

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