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CAMO and continuing airworthiness

Who is responsible, the Part-CAMO organisation, maintenance programmes, airworthiness directives, life-limited parts, records and the airworthiness review, under ICAO, EASA and FAA rules

By Aerospace Garage Desk · Practitioner · 50 minutes · 24 narrated pages

What you will be able to do

  • ✓ Explain how ICAO Annexes 6 and 8, Part-M and 14 CFR Part 121 place continuing airworthiness responsibility on the State of Design, the State of Registry and the operator.
  • ✓ Describe the Part-CAMO organisation: who needs it, its privileges, management system, key people, exposition and records.
  • ✓ Build and adjust an aircraft maintenance programme from the MRB report, protecting certification maintenance requirements and airworthiness limitations and using reliability data to change intervals.
  • ✓ Run airworthiness directive and service bulletin control, including applicability, compliance-time calculation, repeat intervals and alternative methods.
  • ✓ Control components, life-limited parts and records, calculating remaining life and applying the Part-M and FAA record rules.
  • ✓ Carry out and decide an airworthiness review, and manage maintenance contracts, with reference to Part-ML, UAE CAR-M and the US system.

Course content

Session 1 · Continuing airworthiness: who is responsible

1.1

  1. What continuing airworthiness means · free preview
  2. The international chain: ICAO Annexes 6 and 8
  3. The operator carries the responsibility
  4. Worked example: who does what for a leased-in aircraft
Session 2 · Part-CAMO: the approved organisation

1.2

  1. From Subpart G to Part-CAMO
  2. The management system
  3. People, the exposition and the records
  4. From the investigation file: Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101
Session 3 · The aircraft maintenance programme

1.3

  1. Where the tasks come from
  2. Safety-critical tasks: CMRs and airworthiness limitations
  3. Reliability programmes and periodic review
  4. Worked example: escalating a task interval with reliability data
Session 4 · Airworthiness directives and service bulletins

1.4

  1. What an airworthiness directive is
  2. Running AD control
  3. Service bulletins, modifications and repairs
  4. Worked example: planning a repetitive airworthiness directive
Session 5 · Components, life-limited parts and records

1.5

  1. Component control
  2. Life-limited parts and back-to-birth traceability
  3. Records that prove airworthiness
  4. Worked example: life-limited parts remaining cycles
Session 6 · Airworthiness review, contracts and other rule sets

1.6

  1. The airworthiness review and its certificate
  2. Contracting maintenance
  3. Light aircraft under Part-ML, and other rule sets
  4. Worked example: airworthiness review findings and the decision

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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