The following communication was received by Steven Bentley on behalf of Sofema Aviation Services from EASA on Wed July 2nd 2014. For any comments or questions please contact steve.bentley@sassofia.com.
Dear Mr. Bentley,
Regarding your question, our position is the following:
• A Part-147 approval only grants privileges related to courses and examinations required by Part-66.
• As a consequence, the privileges of a Part-147 organisation do not include providing other courses such as, but not limited to, Human Factors, Regulations, Engine Run-Up, Procedures, etc. These courses can be imparted by any organisation (including your organisation) as long as they are acceptable to the corresponding competent authority. By this we mean that, for example, a course performed on Regulation 145 for the purpose of qualifying the Quality Manager of a Part-145 organisation can be imparted by any organisation as long as it is acceptable to the competent authority
responsible for the Part-145 organisation (as regards to content, duration, instructors, etc).
• If a Part-147 organisation advertises that they perform a non-Part-66 course, they can perfectly do so. However, any certificate they issue for such course is not covered by the Part-147 privileges and is not mutually recognised because they are not doing them based on their Part-147 privileges. It will have to be accepted by each competent authority individually. As a consequence, EASA has no responsibility on how they perform these courses (this will be the responsibility of the competent authority who accepted the course).
I hope this clarifies your questions and helps you to achieve acceptance of your courses.
Best regards,
Juan Anton
Continuing Airworthiness Manager
Product Safety Unit – Rulemaking Directorate
European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)
Ottoplatz, 1
D- 50679 Köln, Germany
Phone: +49 221 899 90 5025
Fax: +49 221 899 90 5525
juan.anton@easa.europa.eu
