The risks associated with being an Accountable Manager in aviation maintenance are only acceptable if the regulations are written and implemented to ensure no ambiguity exists.

Unfortunately EASA is bowing to commercial pressure by allowing effective Aviation regulations that are currently being drafted by the Agency to be compromised. Available Loopholes in methods of compliance are growing as more and more money managers force the industry to seek out the cheapest method of application in all aviation related areas due to relentless cost cutting (ref daily mail Aug 28 2007).

QANTAS is set to further inflame the tempers of its maintenance staff by unveiling "contingency" plans to offset threatened industrial action by its 1700 aircraft engineers.

The airline revealed its plans late December. These included the rescheduling of flights and the hiring of non-union licensed aircraft maintenance engineers (LAMEs) to counter industrial action due to begin on January 9.

AEI Secretary Europe: Alain Dupuis, is asking all the EU affiliate members to sign the attached petition on witch our national airlines must be involved, to show that we are concerned as Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers.

Find all the information on the members only page  

Nearly precisely to the day, 50 years ago, a Tupolev-104A jet plane, in the colours of Czechoslovak Airlines, took off from Ruzyne Airport for its first scheduled flight to Moscow. It was a historic moment that carried the Airline into the jet age.

The AEI affiliate:
Association of Licensed Aircraft Engineers have asked some valid questions !

How does an apparently perfectly serviceable aircraft end up smashing into a concrete wall?

Are current engine run training practices sufficient?

Read more on ALAE news;

A340-600 ENGINE RUN INCIDENT

SAEP are heading towards a full blown strike due to very bad results of the negotiations between the Aircraft Engineers and the management of PIA.

During the Annual Congress in London, AEI President Andreas Georgiades was proud to present AEI Honorary Membership to John Alldis, for his passionate affair with flight safety and licensed aircraft maintenance engineers worldwide and over a lifetime.

This was also duly noted “down under” by the Australian press.

 Australian Newspaper Article

EASA has published for public comment their new proposed instructions for completing a maintenance release under EASA Part 145, Part M or Part 66 rules.
The Notice of Proposed Amendment addresses inconsistencies in the way that aircraft are released under a single release system as compared to a multiple release system, by creating three different types of maintenance release certificates.