L 135/82
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
23.5.2023
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The type evaluation shall be passed, and the required practical experience shall be completed within the 3 years preceding the application for the rating endorsement on the aircraft maintenance licence. 3.
Type evaluation shall be performed with at least one examiner present.
The examiner(s) shall not have been involved in the applicant’s training.
(e) A written and signed report shall be prepared and made available to the candidate by the examiner(s) to explain why the candidate has passed or failed. 6.
On-the-job training (OJT) 6.1 General The OJT is the training that the applicant is given on a particular aircraft type in a real workplace, having the possibility to learn maintenance best practices and correct release-to-service procedures.
The OJT shall comply with the following requirements: (a) The list of the OJT tasks and programme shall be accepted by the competent authority which has issued the maintenance licence before starting the OJT training.
(b) The OJT shall be conducted at one or more maintenance organisations appropriately approved according to this Regulation for the maintenance of that aircraft type.
One of those organisations shall control the OJT.
(c) The applicant shall have a category A, B or L5 licence before undergoing the OJT or have finished the theoretical type training and cumulated at least 50 % of the basic experience requirement (point 66.A.30) as regards the category of aircraft he or she is trained for.
(d) The applicant shall start and complete the OJT within 3 years preceding the application for the first type rating endorsement.
At least 50 % of the OJT tasks shall take place after the related aircraft theoretical type training has been completed.
(e) The applicant shall undergo the OJT under the mentorship of a qualified mentor or mentors, on a one-to-one supervision basis, during which the mentors verify the technical knowledge, the skills, and responsibilities of a typical certifying staff.
During the OJT, the mentors transmit also knowledge and experience to the applicant, providing the necessary advice, support, and guidance.
(f) Each task shall be signed off by the applicant and refer to an actual job card/work sheet, etc.
The mentors shall verify and countersign off the tasks performed during the OJT, because they shall assume the responsibility for the tasks at support staff or certifying staff level, as applicable, depending on the release-to-service procedure.
(g) At the satisfactory completion of the OJT programme, the mentors shall issue a recommendation for the final assessment of the applicant to be conducted by designated assessors.
6.2 OJT content and OJT logbook The OJT shall include a series of activities and tasks representative of the aircraft type rating, systems, and licence category applied for and may cover more than one licence category.
The OJT shall be documented in an OJT logbook reporting the following: (a) name of the applicant; (b) date of birth of the applicant; (c) the approved maintenance organisation(s) where the OJT was carried out;