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Aircraft Maintenance

Pan Am Flight Academy · San Antonio, Texas, United States · Yesterday
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About the role

In today’s competitive airline environment, keeping training cost under control is important for airline maintenance departments. It can be a challenge to balance the need to reduce cost, while maintaining the highest quality of training. At Pan Am Flight Academy we understand this challenge.

Training Programs

Pan Am Academy’s maintenance training programs have been developed with these goals in mind. The fleets we train on include:

  • Airbus A320
  • Boeing 737-200
  • Boeing 737-Classics
  • Boeing 737-MAX
  • Boeing 737-NG
  • Boeing 747-200
  • Boeing 747-400
  • Boeing 757
  • Boeing 767
  • Boeing 777
  • Saab SF-340

Engine Run Up and Taxi Training

This course is not a Pan Am FAA-approved curricula and will not result in any training that is designed to satisfy any requirement of 14 CFR chapter 1. The course duration is 3 training days, 16 hours classroom, 4 hours full flight simulator.

This course equips the maintenance technician to prepare the Aircraft, Flight Deck, and Systems for engine operation and taxi. The technicians will operate the engines in both normal and non-normal conditions, as well as experiencing real emergency situations and through structured CRM procedures to resolve these emergencies.

Course Objectives

The course provides the procedures to taxi the airplane to and from the engine run-up area and also to a remote parking area. The simulator provides real hands-on experience, especially for the practice of the abnormal conditions and emergencies. The course covers:

  • Demonstrate the normal autostart & manual start function of engines
  • Identify and Explain in detail the normal function of all aircraft systems necessary to safely operate the Engine Starting and Shutdown procedures
  • Engine Starting, Engine Running, and Shutdown procedures with reference to Synoptic displays, Maintenance Pages, Snapshots, and Fault History
  • Explain and Review Engine Run & Taxi procedures with reference to wind direction, engine limits, approved run up areas, engine ground test power requirements, and taxi procedures from airport paper charts or EFB
  • Identify and perform engine tests normally required after line maintenance or engine installation
  • Use aircraft radio communications systems to communicate with ground traffic control and Air Traffic Control using proper procedures and terminology
  • Identify airport taxiway and runway signs and symbols, Normal Hold Short and ILS Hold Short procedures with read back
  • Recall all appropriate hand and/or voice signals and standard terminology for clear communications between flight deck and ground personnel during airplane Towing, Pushback, and Taxi operations

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