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Saturday, February 14, 2009

B2 Flying Engineer

Mohamad Nurul Nizamzari Ismail asked,

"Here i have a few question for flight.I'am graduate in Bachelor of Science Industrial Engineering. I got the offer to further my study in EASA B2 Avionics at MIAT..It's possible to be a flight engineer. What your opinion about this program?"

My answer:

My job description is Licensed Aircraft Engineer but i'm flying with the aircraft because of of i'm working in charter company. Unlike an airlines, flying to all airports around the world satisfying the customers, placing LAE onboard is the best solutions to make sure maintenance aspect of an aircraft will be well taken care off.

In airlines environment, in most of destination there will be a station engineer or contracted certifying engineer who will inspect the aircraft during turnaround and issue CRS (Certificate of Release to Service) before aircraft return back to base. There is no flying engineer onboard.

Unless aircraft fly to destination where frequency of flight is very low or there is no contract company available to do the task. In this case, line maintenance engineer will fly with the aircraft to issue the CRS.before return back to base.

But i can assure you that it will not be as adventurous as flying onboard vip business jet.

In current practices, only B1 engineer are allowed to issue a CRS to release the aircraft for flight. B2 is avionic and no previlege as far as i know yet for them to issue it, so chances that B2 engineer will join flying team are very slim, unless if you working with charter company where the avionics LAE were given a company approval to fly with the aircraft.

MIAT is a good place to learn aircraft maintenance & later getting the licence as aircraft maintenance engineer but you have to choose B1 or B2 so that you will know where you will be heading.

Hope this will help.