Aircraft maintenance is the technical process that is performed on the aircraft while it remains in line or in base and aircraft are required for maintain and restore their integrity and performance to keep them in good working condition. Absence of or Improper aircraft maintenance and inspections can lead to major issues and could even lead to accidents resulting in colossal financial losses and probably fatalities. Appropriately qualified and suitably trained aircraft maintenance personnel are a prerequisite for ensuring proper maintenance of aircraft.

AACEA’s Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Courses are designed to equip the students with knowledge and skills necessary to perform aircraft maintenance, initially as mechanics or technicians and excel as professionals by subsequently obtaining aircraft type ratings and becoming aircraft maintenance type rated engineers.

The Aircraft Maintenance Engineering EASA B1 / B2 Knowledge Training and Examinations Courses offered by AACEA in collaboration with Suntech Ltd of Medvode, Slovenia, an EASA Part-147 approved Maintenance Training Organization (SI.147.005) and Tailwind Systems of Brisbane, Australia, a Systems Integrator for the EASA Program in the Austral/Asia Pacific Region, provide a unique opportunity for students (and already employed aircraft maintenance staff) to become European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Licenced Aircraft Maintenance Engineers. EASA issues two main licences for aircraft maintenance: Category B1 and Category B2, where B1 licence has four sub-categories, i.e., B1.1 – Aeroplne Turbine, B1.2 – Aeroplane Piston, B1.3 – Helicopter Turbine and B1.4 – Helicopter Piston. These licences are defined under EASA Part-66 regulation and lead to very different responsibilities and types of work in aviation. Students are able to obtain either EASA B1 licence specializing in mechanical systems like engines, airframes, hydraulics, and fuel systems or EASA B2 licence specializes in avionics and electronic systems, controlling communications, navigation, and instruments or both B1 and B2 licences.

In today’s competitive aviation maintenance environment, pursuing both B1 and B2 licences represents a strategic career investment that delivers significant returns.

While B1 licence qualifies a person for mechanical systems maintenance and B2 licence covers avionics, modern aircraft increasingly blur these traditional boundaries. Advanced aircraft integrate sophisticated electronic controls with mechanical systems. By mastering both domains, a person could develop a holistic understanding that allows troubleshooting of complex, interconnected problems that single-licence technicians might struggle with.

With relatively modest additional effort beyond a single licence path, one can enhance the employability and earning potential significantly and the EASA B1 / B2 Knowledge Training and Examinations programme at AACEA is one of the best pathways available to achieve this.

The Aircraft Maintenance Engineering EASA B1 / B2 Knowledge Training and Examinations Courses provide students with online e-books, which provide comprehensive technical content necessary for a licensed engineer to comply with EASA requirements for the license categories (B1 or B2), on-line video lessons to offer additional help in the studying process, which, in addition to the eBooks, explain the content of eBooks in a simpler way with a lot of hands-on-material, on-line live briefings in a virtual classroom where students can get any examples of essay writing, added explanation, calculation exercises and much more. Further, pre-examination review sessions and optional consultations to discuss any unclear topics with the examiner are made available for students. Students are entitled for the first examination attempt and are allowed a second attempt at no additional cost, if the student fails the first examination attempt. Suntech will issue EASA Certificates of Recognition to students who successfully pass the examinations.

The Aircraft Maintenance Engineering EASA B1 / B2 Knowledge Training and Examinations Courses offered by AACEA could be best followed in conjunction with AACEA’s B1.2 Basic Training Course and B1.1 Conversion Training Course whereby students could benefit from the full live delivery of module contents. However, students could also follow only the Aircraft Maintenance Engineering EASA B1 / B2 Knowledge Training and Examinations Courses where students will benefit from a 400 hour programme of instructor-led on-line delivery sessions covering all applicable modules offered by AACEA.

Students following the Aircraft Maintenance Engineering EASA B1 / B2 Knowledge Training and Examinations Courses at AACEA will have to undergo Maintenance Experience Training at any approved facility maintaining aircraft correspond to the licence category required to fulfill the experience requirement for Aircraft Maintenance Licence.