APR Aviation Training Center Expands to East Malaysia

APR - ATC atau nama sebenarnya Aeroprecision Resources, Aviation Training Center Sdn Berhad had signed up an agreement with the Sarawak arm, PPKS dan Hornbill Skyways to conduct programs leading to License Aircraft Engineer License in the near future.

This was posted in the Borneo Post below...
APR-ATC rancang lahirkan beribu jurutera pesawat dari Sarawak
Posted on June 25, 2013, Tuesday
KUCHING: Aero Precision Resources – Aviation Training Centre Sdn Bhd (APR-ATC) merancang untuk melahirkan beribu jurutera pesawat dari Sarawak pada tahun-tahun akan datang.
Ketua Pegawai Eksekutifnya Amirudin Abdul Ghani berkata ia adalah antara usaha merapatkan jurang di Asia Timur dan Malaysia dari segi kekurangan jurutera pesawat.
“Terdapat banyak perkembangan penerbangan di Semenanjung Malaysia dan kami sedang dalam usaha melanjutkan kepakaran di Malaysia Timur terutama di Sarawak untuk menjadi jurutera pesawat.
“Kami juga mahu mereka menjadi sebahagian daripada industri penerbangan di negara kita,” katanya ketika ditemui selepas mewakili APR-ATC pada Majlis Menandatangani Memorandum Persefahaman (MoU) dengan Pusat Pembangunan Kemahiran Sarawak (PPKS) dan Hornbill Skyways Sdn Bhd bagi Program Jurutera Penyelenggaraan Pesawat Teknikal (TAME) di Sarawak, di sini semalam.
Menjelaskan mengenai sasaran APR-ATC, Amirudin berkata seramai 16,000 orang diperlukan di seluruh negara menjelang tahun 2020 dan angka ini juga termasuk juruteknik dan jurutera.
“Seperti yang kita boleh lihat iaitu perkembangan syarikat penerbangan seperti kemasukan Malindo Air serta syarikat penerbangan sedia ada seperti MAS, AirAsia dan MASwings, kita dapati tidak banyak jurutera penerbangan di Malaysia Timur.
“Itulah sebabnya kami mengambil keputusan untuk datang dan membantu Malaysia Timur,” katanya.
Justeru, beliau berharap usaha sama yang dimeterai dengan PPKS dan Hornbill Skyways akan membuka lebih banyak peluang kepada anak Sarawak untuk menjadi jurutera pesawat.
Berhubung rancangan pengambilan pelajar, Amirudin menjelaskan ia adalah bergantung kepada kapasiti di mana TAME mengambil masa tiga hingga empat tahun.
“Kami akan menjalankannya secara berperingkat dan mungkin akan mula mengambil kira-kira 250 pelajar setahun jika mereka mempunyai kapasiti,” katanya sambil menambah program TAME akan bermula pada tahun ini di PPKS selepas segala urusan antara kesemua pihak selesai.
Menurut Amirudin, gaji purata seorang jurutera pesawat adalah antara RM5,000 hingga RM15,000 bergantung kepada kelayakan yang dimiliki kerana lesen bukan sahaja diiktiraf di bawah sistem pelesenan Jabatan Penerbangan Awam (DCA) Malaysia tetapi juga di peringkat antarabangsa.
“Standard kami adalah berasaskan standard Eropah dan lesen Malaysia di bawah DCM566 juga bersamaan dengan standard Eropah.
“Oleh itu, jurutera kami di Malaysia amat dicari terutama di Timur Tengah,” katanya.

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Managing Students Examination - School's View

Malaysia DCA had started the part 66 examination in Jan 2013. It is commendable effort to solve the long waiting list, but it is not without any issues.

The present examination system is focused on the individual students. These are the processes...

1. candidates register with the DCA as a candidate. This is a semi-manual process and the potential candidates have to show his/her legal existence.

2. The DCA will verify and register him/her as an approved candidate.

3. Once a registered candidate, he/she can register to sit for examination. This has to be done by the candidates personally.


 The mode of communication is between the authority (DCA) and the students. There is no provision for block registration, which is the characteristic of a part 147 schools. The school want to control and monitor their own students.

There are various ways an approved 147 goes about to respond to the short coming. These are the examples:

1. One school acts on behalf of the students. That mean the school will have to create one e-mail account for each students. Then the school has to use the created email to register the students individually. Once registered the school will act as the students in the dealings with the authority.

2. Another school is doing the opposite. Eveything were left to the students even to the days of the exams were managed by the students. This does seem to create problems to the students, the time was not given to the students to prepare for the exam.

In my opinion, the middle approach may be a better approach. Students can be made to to take responsibility for specific task. Specific activities can be used a the control mechanism. For proof of registration to be used for enrollment to join the next module. For example, to sit for module 11A, the student must shown the proof that they had sit for the Module 3 examination.

Managing the students examination is critical for the success of the students. Without the control mechanism, the students performance may not be traceable.
    

New Hangar for APR Aerospace Engineering

APR, an established training organisation under part 66 is expanding its wings to venture into aircraft maintenance. The historic even in the Malacca Airport on 22 March 2013 marked the beginning of APR Aerospace Engineering.

The local English daily carried the news...

   

Some the photos are included below...

The large audiences. The staff and students from APR Aviation Trainees. 

The Chief Minister  of Melaka, giving his launching speech. 

MRO,  145 and 147 Organisations is Mutually Supporting.

 Under EASA, the organisations are divided according to the different parts of the Regulation. The aircraft maintenance is under part 145 and the training organisation is under part 147. Organisations approved under the 145 regulations are called 145 organisation and those approved under 147 are called 147 organisations.

The running of 147 organisations require the practical training for the students. Thus it is a matter of strategic directive to build the 145 capabilities. The investments will be considered a down stream expansion for the present company. 

Planning for Exams

On of the task to be taken by an approved school is to prepare the students for the examination. The examinations are conducted by the country's airworthiness authority. In Malaysia, the authority is DCA (Department of Civil Aviation Malaysa), in UK is the British CAA. The Malaysian DCA  produces the Airworthiness Notice, AN1101, giving the guides and the requirements to acquire the license. The requirements are aligned to the EASA articles, however, getting the Malaysia License does not entitle the holder to hold the EASA license.


EASA allowed two approaches to manage and operate the examinations. They are...

1. Examinations are managed and conducted  by the country's authority.
2. The country's authority may delegate the role of holding the examinations and marking the papers to an approved 147 school.

The approach in Malaysia is slightly different, all examinations are done online and conducted by DCA Malaysia. However, approved training organisations may manage the examination centers. The training organisation needs to prepare the computers and network infrastructure to meet the requirements of  an approved examination center to manage the examination.

One the issues to be decided by the training center is to come up with an approved scheduling model. The modular exams enables the students to sit for the paper as early as in year 1. This is different from the previous section L BCAR exam, where the candidate has to be at least 3 years undergoing the training.

Program Design For B1.1 Training

The part 66 requirements and the guide under part 147 do not dictate how the training schedule are designed. To provide some ideas of how other organisations conduct their training programs, I include some of the programs which I have the first hand knowledge.

A. Airline A.
The program is three year, combining work and learning.
- Year 1 - Basic Training
The students spend their whole year at ground school, where the students are taught the basic of aircraft maintenance. The sessions consist of classroom and practical. The classroom training include subjects such as Mathematics, Physics, aerodynamic, covering about the same content of the present module 1 to 10.
The practical elements include basic engineering, welding, milling and lathe machine. Students do not touch any aircraft, as they are considered to inexperienced to contribute to the production.

- Year 2 - Experiencing different areas.
 The students are sent to the maintenance base. They are attached to operation crews. The areas include the toolcrips, workshops and heavy maintenance. The works on the tarmac are avoided due to the potential risk to aircraft departures timing.
The classroom sessions are provided by the government college through a block release program where students spend 3 month per year attending the classroom session.


- Year 3 - Sharpen the skills - This year the students are more focused. They are spending more time at the base maintenance and become part of the regular work force.

- Year 4 - Selecting the new home. Based in the company's manpower requirements, the trainee are joing their almost dedicated functions. Some may join the D check or HMV, some may be working in the periodic check doing the C check and lower.

 Summary:
The class hours total up to...
1. Year one   40 hour/week for 43 week = 1720 hours
2. Year two - 40 hour per week for 13   =        520 hours
3. Year 3  40 hours per week for 13       =        520 hours

Total                                                          2760 hours
The hours exceeds the EASA requirement.  

B: Airline B

E Examination for Malaysian DCA AML

The examination for AML (aircraft maintenance license) for Malaysia DCA will be conducted by e-examination. That mean the conduct of the exam session will be web based, the registration, records and communication and fee payment is web based and accessible world wide.

The soft launch of the system was carried in conjunction with the briefing to to the stake holders at MaVa, Malaysian Aviation Academy near KLIA airport. The academy is situated near the Formula One circuit.

Among the points at the briefing are:

1. E-exam used by DCAM for both the pilots and aircraft engineers' license. The pilots e-exam started in Sept 2012 and the first AML exam  will be on 23 Jan 2013.

2.  AME exams will cover cat A, B1 and B2. The syllabus is based on EASA and tailored for DCAM.

3. The qualification will be accorded by DCAM.

4. The e-exam is provided by CAAI, Aspeq and DCAM.

5. The exam System
a. consists of question banks, examination paper generation and result processing.
b. Tasman is one of the e-exam modules handling the following functions:
          - candidate profiles
          - exam booking and registration.
          - payment
          - exam session
          - result
          - communication

6. Questions Banks
a. Modules availability is limited, currently B1- modules 1 to 8 and 14 are available.
b.Other modules will be added soon, targeted for first half of 2013.

7. Exam Venue
a. Currently, the MAVA center is available with 80 PCs.
b. Centers in Sabah and Sarawak will be identified.

8. Exam Administration
a. The exams are Conducted every 2 weeks
b. The first one will be 23 Jan with 30 candidates/ per session. There will be 2  sessions per examination day.
c. Written subjective paper. Questions will be given through the computer.The answer will be done using paper. The answer through the computer is under review. The written answer will be scanned and inserted into the e-exam system. Corrected paper will be validated by DCAM.

9. Candidates Processes. - currently available for the candidates only.The registration and management by ATO is not available yet.
a. Profile Creation - A process to create the ID and password. The candidates profile to be approved by DCAM. The approval expected to be maximum of 5 days.

b. Exam Registration is only for registered students.

c. Payment is through credit card. The cost is 75 pounds but Malaysian pay RM50 only.


PROCESSES

register=====> DCA Verify ====> candidate register/ Apply. 

Register for exam == select date =====>  sage pay ===> visa /master card ===>sit for exam ==> get result.

d. e-EXAMINATION

exam features.

- can comment

- can change answer

- can return back to the question

- can mark as require attention

QUESTION

- from UK CAA bank

RESULT

- result is not immediate although the system is capable to do it
- the computer will forward the result to DCA and DCA wll validate and adjust for any error.
- Then you will get the result through e-mail.
- you can save and print.

- If a candidate fails, he/she will be automatically barred for 90 days. If he attend a course after failure, the duration is reduced to 30 days.

SECURITY

- V stick - prevent candidate from accessing other sites during exam.

The following is the link to Malaysian DCA e-Examination.

Link: https://caai-train-dcam-ame.aspeqexams.com/