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In a Jan. 16 letter, the council invited the "new" Administrator to join aviation education leaders at its upcoming Annual Conference in Fort Worth....

In a Jan. 22 memo, ATEC outlined an issue that has plagued aviation maintenance programs for some time. The National Center for Educational...

Q: Are there limitations on what schools can track with regard to a student’s age? The ATEC survey requests that the school provide average age of a...

Q: I read the recent article regarding the FAA Part 147 bill. I am confused as there was a recent NPRM that was issued and I was under the...

Fourteen trade associations submitted joint comments to the part 147 supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking, delivering a powerful message of...

In a June 12 submission, ATEC voiced its feedback to the latest FAA rulemaking regarding aviation maintenance technician schools. The comments, a...

Q: Our local inspector insists that our part 147 program tracks student missed time by the minute and that the time be "made up" by the students. Is...

Last summer, the aviation maintenance technician airman certification standards (AMT ACS) working group made recommendation to the FAA that the...

US Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), James Inhofe (R-OK), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced a bill to improve training...

Southern Utah University (SUU) petitioned the FAA for an exemption from part 147 seat time and general curriculum requirements. The University...

FAA Releases Draft AMT ACS For Comment 4/17/2018 0 Comments As ATEC members well know, the FAA is in the process of replacing the Aviation Mechanic...

Recently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published new career projections in its Occupational Outlook Handbook. The biennial publication...