Can the training manager in a Part-147 organisation also serve as the accountable manager?

Yes, the training manager could also be the accountable manager.

Which specific point of Part-147 defines the quality system that the quality manager is responsible for managing?

The quality manager is responsible for managing the quality system as specified in point 147.A.130(b).

What are the responsibilities of the examination manager in a maintenance training organisation with 50 or more students?

The examination manager is responsible for managing the relevant Part-147 Subpart C or Subpart D examination system.

For an organisation with a capacity of exactly 50 students at the same time, is the appointment of a training manager mandatory?

Yes, because the threshold is 50 students or more at the same time, so an organisation with exactly 50 students must appoint a training manager.

Does the AMC allow the quality manager to also be the accountable manager?

The AMC states that the training manager could also be the accountable manager, but it does not explicitly state that the quality manager can be the accountable manager.

AMC1 147.A.105 Personnel requirements

Q: What is the minimum student capacity threshold that triggers the mandatory appointment of a training manager, a quality manager, and an examination manager in a maintenance training organisation?

The threshold is 50 students or more at the same time. Any maintenance training organisation with the capacity to train, examine, and/or assess 50 students or more at the same time should appoint a training manager, a quality manager, and an examination manager.

Q: Is it permissible for the training manager, quality manager, or examination manager to also act as an instructor or examiner?

Yes, this (these) person(s) may also be an instructor and/or examiner.

Q: Under what condition may a maintenance training organisation with fewer than 50 students combine the positions of training manager, quality manager, and examination manager?

The organisation may combine any or all of these positions subject to the competent authority verifying and being satisfied that all functions can be properly carried out in combination.

Q: If a maintenance training organisation is also approved against other Parts that contain similar functions, what is allowed regarding those functions?

Such functions may be combined.

Q: Which AMC and ED decision provide the acceptable means of compliance for personnel requirements under 147.A.105?

AMC1 147.A.105 Personnel requirements, ED Decision 2023/019/R.

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AMC1 147.A.105 Personnel requirements

ED Decision 2023/019/R

1. Any maintenance training organisation with the capacity to train, examine, and/or assess 50 students or more at the same time should appoint a training manager with the responsibility of managing the training organisation on a day-to-day basis. This person could also be the accountable manager. In addition, the organisation should appoint a quality manager with the responsibility of managing the quality system as specified in point 147.A.130(b), and an examination manager with the responsibility of managing the relevant Part-147 Subpart C or Subpart D examination system. This (these) person(s) may also be an instructor and/or examiner.

2. Any maintenance training organisation with the capacity to train, examine, and/or assess fewer than 50 students at the same time may combine any or all of the subparagraph (1) positions subject to the competent authority verifying and being satisfied that all functions can be properly carried out in combination.

3. When the organisation is also approved against other Parts which contain some similar functions then such functions may be combined.

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Source-Title: AMC1 147.A.105 Personnel requirements View latest amendments

Erulesid: ERULES-1963177438-455 Compare versions

Domain: Continuing airworthiness

Activitytype: Training, Examination

Applicabilitydate: 12 June, 2024

Entryintoforcedate: 3 November, 2023

Regulatedentity: Maintenance training organisation

Regulatorysource: ED Decision 2023/019/R Navigate

Regulatorysubject: Part-147

Typeofcontent: AMC to IR (Acceptable means of compliance to implementing rule)

Parentir: 147.A.105(h) Updating training for instructors and knowledge examiners

Origin: EASA

Category: EAR