147.A.105 Personnel Requirements

(a)  The organisation shall appoint an accountable manager who has corporate authority for ensuring that all training commitments can be financed and carried out to the standard required by this Part.

(b)  A person or group of persons, whose responsibilities include ensuring that the maintenance training organisation is in compliance the requirements of this Part, shall be nominated. Such person(s) must be responsible to the accountable manager. The senior person or one person from the group of persons may also be the accountable manager subject to meeting the requirements for the accountable manager as defined in point (a).

(c)  The maintenance training organisation shall contract sufficient staff to plan/perform knowledge and practical training, conduct knowledge examinations and practical assessments in accordance with the approval.

(d)  By derogation to point (c), when another organisation is used to provide practical training and assessments, such other organisation’s staff may be nominated to carry out practical training and assessments.

(e)  Any person may carry out any combination of the roles of instructor, examiner and assessor, subject to compliance with point (f).

(f)   The experience and qualifications of instructors, knowledge examiners and practical assessors shall be established in accordance with criteria published or in accordance with a procedure and to a standard agreed by the CAA.

(g)  The knowledge examiners and practical assessors shall be specified in the organisation exposition for the acceptance of such staff.

(h)  Instructors and knowledge examiners shall undergo updating training at least every 24 months relevant to current technology, practical skills, human factors and the latest training techniques appropriate to the knowledge being trained or examined.