Mumbai: City-based Thakur Institute of Aviation Technology (TIAT) plans to launch a course in “type-rating” for A320 aircraft maintenance engineers (AMEs) and has applied to the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for approval.<\/p>\n
“We want our students to attain certain special training for certifying different types of aircraft. So we have applied to EASA for its approval to our Airbus A 320 type-rating course,” said TIAT chief instructer Subhajit Maity.<\/p>\n
“Type-rating” is a regulating agency’s certification which allows an AME to certify a certain type of aircraft.
\nMaity said EASA’s chief airworthiness manager had visited TIAT’s Mumbai campus last week and had inspected various processes that are being put in place to commence the proposed course.<\/p>\n
“If we are able to meet their parameters, we wil get the approval by the middle of next year,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The introduction of the type-rating course at the Institute will help our students save a lot of costs as at present they have to go out for such a training which is expensive,” Maity said.<\/p>\n