Abstract
The fast growing aviation market has resulted in the rapid increase in the number of aircraft globally. As aircraft maintenance needs grow higher, both aircraft maintenance license and repair station license are essential to remain competitive in the worldwide aviation maintenance market. In the past, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) license was the mainstream. In recent years, in need of a higher aviation safety standard, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) maintenance requirement has become the worldwide standards. While most countries are following EASA regulations to raise their flight safety, Taiwan is still compiling with FAA regulations. Taiwan’s aircraft maintenance repair stations are facing enormous challenges when competing with other countries in winning international maintenance contracts. In view of these difficulties, Taiwan CAA is planning to upgrade the present local aircraft maintenance regulation to meet the EASA standard. CAA initiated a discussion with local airlines to find out a way to compose local aviation regulations which would fulfill both international aircraft maintenance requirements and local airlines’ needs.This thesis discusses requirements prescribed in the EASA, FAA, CAA and Civil Aviation Law of the People's Republic of China (CCAR) and how airlines can speed up the process in obtaining aircraft maintenance license through training. Discrepancies between Taiwan CAA license system and EASA requirements are presented in this paper. A new training schedule and training syllabi were designed according to local airlines’ needs and were implemented in the new recruits’ fundamental training at a local repair station. At the end of training, written tests and hands-on practical tests were conducted to evaluate if students had reached the satisfactory knowledge and skill levels. In addition to that, an On Job Training（OJT） log book was created so that production departments may follow the OJT logbook to conduct continuous OJT training for new recruits in the future. Finally, training improvements were evaluated by looking at the aircraft reliability rate and dispatch condition. The goal is to find out a feasible method to conduct the best-quality new recruits’ basic training within minimum time and provide an effective and efficient training standard for local airlines.Training periods were successfully revised and conducted at a shorter duration. The result was improved maintenance qualities, which were shown through the decreased defect rates of production departments’ final shakedown.Future research can aim at further improvement of the present research or engineers’ training / management training which are not covered in this paper. These studies will help airlines reduce costs and upgrade their maintenance competence.