Interested To Be Flight Engineer

Ibrahim asked;

i'm interested to be a flightlike you.can u tell me what the requiment needed.currently i'm working as avionics technician at malaysia airlines.for your information i'm a AMEL holder from DCA malaysia (instrument & radio)

Dear Ibrahim,

You need to have ability to release an aircraft for flight either A&C, B1 or under company approval. This is done after you have licence plus type rated on certain type or aircraft.

Not all company have full time flight engineer onboard, normal airlines do sometimes carry engineer onboard for a schedule flight to certain destination that does not have engineer coverage to release aircraft back to base. In Malaysia Airlines it is under Line Maintenance so you have to work your way to join the department, but as far as i can remember, only A&C engineer is accepted to fly onboard.

Unfortunately in east asia region, market for narrow to wide body vip aircraft is very limited so chances to be full time flight engineer is very scarce. Try to get licence and type rated for 737NG or Airbus A319/320 and look forward to find oppurtunity in Gulf and Middle East where the business jet is a lot around this area.