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.