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ATEC INSIGHT
Aviation Maintenance
Workforce Issues Top of
Mind for Federal Leaders
A February 11, 2020 U.S. House aviation subcommittee hearing, "Looking Forward:
The Future of America's Aviation Maintenance and Manufacturing Workforce,"
gave congressional leaders an opportunity to follow up with FAA and Government
Accountability Report (GAO) representatives on action items falling out of the
2018 FAA Reauthorization bill.
By Crystal Maguire
Crystal Maguire is
the executive director
of the Aviation
Technician Education
Council (ATEC).
Following witness testimony by representatives from
Aviation High School, Vaughn College, Delta Air Lines,
Gulfstream Aerospace and LIFT Academy, several subcommittee members made pointed remarks about the
need for modernized aviation maintenance technical
school regulations, noting that the congressional deadline to promulgate a new rule, April 5, 2019, had come
and gone. In response, FAA senior advisor for Aviation
Workforce Outreach Kate Lang stated that it was the
agency's intent to publish the final rule by year-end.
Echoing recent industry sentiment, Rep. Woodall
(7-GA) suggested we reconsider whether the FAA should
be dictating aviation program curriculum standards
at all: "What is the regulatory role for the FAA moving
forward if we can't do it in an agile way? Should the FAA
be telling everyone that we have to [train] this way, if
it can't keep up with industry demands?"
Woodall was referring to the current, static curriculum mandates contained in 14 Code of Federal
Regulations part 147, that require schools to teach
long-outdated subject areas at the expense of newer,
more relevant technologies. Industry recently provided
its solution to modernizing aviation training and ensuring long-term viability by drafting performance-based
regulatory language now contained in the Promoting
Aviation Regulations for Technical Training (PARTT)
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Aircraft Maintenance Technology
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Aircraft Maintenance Technology
Editor's Viewpoint: Ten Years of AMT
Industry Inspection
Mapping Out Maintenance
Education & Training: Everything's Bigger in Texas
Tech Spotlight: Start Your Engines
Special Feature: The Growing Demand for Predictive Maintenance
MRO Feature: The StandardAero Model
Product Focus: Landing Gear: Tread Lightly
ATEC Insight: Aviation Maintenance Workforce Issues Top of Mind for Federal Leaders
Advertiser's Index
Editor's Takeoff: Don't Fly Off the Handle
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