AMC 147.A.145(d) Privileges of the maintenance training organisation    

CAA ORS9 Decision No. 1

1. When training or examination is carried out under the sub-contract control system it means that for the duration of such training or examination, the Part-147 approval has been temporarily extended to include the sub-contractor. It therefore follows that those parts of the sub-contractor’s facilities, personnel and procedures involved with the Part-147 approved maintenance training organisation’s students should meet requirements of Part-147 for the duration of that training or examination and it remains the Part-147 organisation’s responsibility to ensure such requirements are satisfied.

2. The maintenance training organisation approved under Part-147 is not required to have complete facilities and personnel for training that it needs to sub-contract but it should have its own expertise to determine that the sub-contractor meets the Part-147 standards. Particular attention should be given to ensuring that the training that is delivered also meets the requirements of Part-66 and the aircraft technologies are appropriate.

3. The contract between the maintenance training organisation approved under Part-147 and the sub-contractor should contain:

— a provision for the CAA to have right of access to the sub-contractor;

— a provision for the sub-contractor to inform the Part-147 approved maintenance training organisation of any change that may affect its Part-147 approval, before any such change takes place.