FESTIVE SESSION at UNI KL

University of Kuala Lumpur has a number of centers under its wing, one of which is MIAT, or Malaysian Institute of Aviation Technology. The campus is situated in Dengkil, about 25 km from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

MIAT is offering a range of courses leading to Degrees and Diploma and program for aircraft maintenance license.

Hari Raya or Eid Azhar is one of the two celebration celebrated by Muslims around the world to make the end of the Ramadhan or the fasting month..

Here the photos of the Eid Celebration held in an Hangar at MIAT.


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The Poster welcoming guests

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Long line for the barbeque

Part 66 Courses in China

I came across an advertisement for EASA part 66 Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Course in China in a local newspaper in Malaysia. The Aircraft Licensing is one of the courses least understood by Malaysians, and this had led to a number of misunderstanding by the general public.

Advertised on The Star on 27 March 2014

 

There are 2 courses being offerred, B1.1 and B2

There is no duration and cost quoted. The best way to get the answer is to call them.

Similar courses are available in Malaysia.
These are the other possible choice.

A. EASA by AeroBidong (EASA Germany)
Currently I am  attached to MIAT UniKL. The course is conducted by MIAT UniKL.
The duration is 2 years and the cost is about RM 80,000.

Malaysian Qualification Framework

Today 20 Feb 2014, I was attending the pedagogy course at my school. This is one of the course made compulsory for all new staff.

One of the topic that I learned was on the MQF, Malaysian Qualification Framework.

The details are given at the official government site... http://www.mqa.gov.my/portal2012/dokumen/MALAYSIAN%20QUALIFICATIONS%20FRAMEWORK_2011.pdf

  You can see that the qualification is divided into 2 groupings, the Vocational and Technical against the Higher Education. The Vocational Education is under the Ministry of Human Resource and the other is under the ministry of education. It does appear to me that the acceptance for the Vocational Training is dwindling. My school was under the vocational before it decided to change to become a higher educational institution.   

Maintaining ATO Status

Our school is an approved ATO under Part 147, under the Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation.

We are preparing for the annual audit. The followings are the main areas of concern, that we are going to focus on. It is based of the findings of the earlier audits, both internal as external.

The issues are:

1. Aligning the MQA process to syllabus of part 66.
There are three elements here,
- first, the DCAM requirements as stated under the part 66 requirements. (similar to EASA part 66.
- second, the MQA requirements as detailed in the Malaysian universities' requiremets and
- The school processes and procedure.

The part 66 is given in the published documents AN 1101, in Jan 2010.  It contains the syllabus and other details required to conduct the courses. As our school is also approved under the MQA, the Malaysia Quality Agency entrusted to control the standard of education in Malaysia, requiring us to meet the requirements from two authorities.

Getting Ready For DCA Audit

The school I am working with is an approved school under the NAA, national airworthiness authority. The approval was awarded under part 147, (equivalent to EASA 147) and the curriculum are as per Part 66.


Some of the topic covered in the briefing were:
1. Linking the approval to ICAO.
2. Role of the ATO (approved training school) in the country.
3. Brief on part 147 and part 66
4. The MTOE - Maintenance Training Organisation Exposition.
5. Guides to be a Good auditee.

Malaysia is one of the contracting states, meaning that we had signed the agreement to comply to the regulations formulated by ICAO.  The set of regulations are organised into annexes. There are a total of 18 annexes, the part about personal licensing is in annex 1.

As ICAO is not a regulatory authority, the regulations issued have to be changed into law by individual country.  The regulations are enforced through the country's legal system. Beside ICAO, there are other bodies that monitor the aviation operation in this country.

USOAP - is the safety oversight audit program conducted by ICAO. The detail is given in this site (jan-2014) .. http://www2.icao.int/en/usoap/Pages/default.aspx

FAA, the aviation authority of USA also monitors the aviation safety through the program known as IASA. Sample of the result of the audits are given below...

IASA by FAA

  EU does not have similar program, but rely of inputs from third parties to regulate the safety matters of other countries. Airlines from "unsafe" countries may be banned from flying to Europe.