Mostly surprised by two aspects actually, First, the Westjet group was specifically invited to participate in the regional association a couple of years ago, and after the conference all we got was radio silence. Second, looking at the agenda for their upcoming event, it's almost exclusively technic...

^ yes, corporations should have insurance. However, I have no legal need for insurance and would not even consider it to sign out a friends a/c. Being in the insurance industry you should know that even with good insurance you can still be hung out to dry. Also, your industry runs on fear mongering...

Any thought on upcoming AME Conference crossing Canada this fall?

http://acmit.azurewebsites.net/default.aspx

https://www.canlii.org/en/ This is the record of all court decisions in Canada. If you search you can find several examples of court decisions. Keep in mind these are only the cases that went to court, there are multiple others that are settled and never made it into the courtroom. Many responses pr...

WAMEA T-Shirts - available only at the symposium.

Mini Skills Competition and Social.

In partnership with SAIT - First ever WAMEA Skills competition!

Many exciting speakers at this years symposium - 2 of the feature are:

Dr Elvis Ceprus - RJ Waldron Aviation Forensics and Failure Analysis

and

Michael Dery - Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP - Aviation Lawyer.

Upcoming Symposium in Calgary- lots of discussions here - now is the chance to meet, discuss and have your opinion heard!


http://www.wamea.com/events/2015-symposium

I am an AME and a aviation insurance broker, available to discuss - no obligation - anytime.

Please note the single most important item that insurance pays for is your Defence!.

The cases of an AME being found liable for damages are pretty rare, defending against a legal action can be very costly.

Innocent or guilty = lawyer gets paid!!

Make sure you are covered.

Would you support a new National AME association that in brief would be a professional organization representing all AME in Canada, further could also be a union for non-union AME's. Much along the lines of the UK ALEA (http://www.alae.org/) Also further reading from AEI (http://www.airengineers.org...

The CCAA (CAMC) has task requirements for certification. Probably the best (only) rescource you may find.


http://avaero-dev.cyansolutions.com/aviation-painter

The Western AME Association Website (http://www.wamea.com/) just posted a couple of discussion papers on the Role of AME Associations and the formation of a National AME association.

Interesting reading, I encourage everyone to give it a read.

Hope the 2 replies above attended the event in Calgary, as the numbers were about the same from Edmonton the year before.

CID, no flak, we do work/try hard, but your are absolutely correct, APATHY is the trend and incredibly difficult to overcome. The current discussions (and my goal) is to move towards amalgamating regions, hopefully with the ultimate goal of a single association. This NEEDS to happen before any real ...

Exactly what needs to be said! To all, I apologize in advance for the long post but those who know me know that it is unavoidable. The fundamental issue with the regional AME associations and CFAMEA is that they collectively represent approximately 880 members. There are approximately 15,000 AME lic...

The sole arbitrator of safety when an aircraft is on the ground: someone should be reporting defects to the AME, therefor the pilot has some responsibility there, if the AME doesn't know about the snag they can't fix it The CAR's clearly state: ANYONE who finds a defect shall report it ....., it is...

What are the benefits of joining ? Exactly the reason for this post...looking for answers. What are the benefits that AME's need/want from an association? Lets look at what is and has been offered: Symposium tradeshow, most exhibitors cater to selling stuff to AMO's, not individual AME's. Symposium...

Agree or disagree? The Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Why the Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer is important: The licensed engineer is the sole arbitrator of safety whilst the aircraft is on the ground. The Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer will only supply their signature to a Ce...

DonutHole wrote:As an apprentice I am reluctant to join, seems improper.

As soon as I am licensed I plan on joining and donating time to the cause.

I believe all the associations have an reduced "apprentice" rate.

Get involved.

May I suggest that an AME shortage is not a problem if either myself (a AME) nor the AME association. A shortage of qualified personnel is an issue of the employers and other associations. Not to say that the AME associations should not be in support of initiatives and progams that encourage new peo...

For what its worth, i was involved in evaluating various program for a company and I thought the 2 best programs were AMS (Canada) and AMOS (Swiss). AMS was cheaper but less capable, depends on what you want it to do. Spend some serious time looking at all the programs can do versus what you would u...

AMOS is great program, depending on the size of your organization.


http://www.swiss-as.com/modules.do




Below link to list of all (most) software available on the market.

http://www.airlineupdate.com/content_su ... it_mro.htm

Unofficial survey time: Why do you belong to one of the regional AME associations ? OR Why do you NOT belong to one of the regional AME associations? What issues should the associations be addressing to make them relevant to you? Please try to be specific and constructive. I am on the board of one o...