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Licence By Post offers world-wide coverage distance learning programmes designed to allow you to study for the CAA Licence Without Type Rating and the EASA part 66 examinations. These follow the syllabus as laid down in BCARs section L or EASA part 66, published by the UK CAA/EASA.
The programmes are cost-effective, allowing progress through the course at your own pace in the comfort of your own home, without the problems of travel, accommodation, etc.
A personalised timetable is provided, but can be changed to suit your requirements.
You can enrol as a Full Student (FS), or an Associate Student (AS), or you can purchase the Study Books by themselves (SB). The following table illustrates what each grade will include:
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Legend: FS = Full Student; AS = Associate Student; SB = Study Books Student.
The FS programme includes all the study books, an assessment timetable, assessments (to be marked by the tutors), and tutor contact (phone, email etc).
The AS programme has all of the above except that you provide your own study books.
Tutors can be contacted by letter, phone (or fax and email in some cases).
Completed assessments are sent to the subject tutors where they are marked and returned. All marking is confidential - unless agreed otherwise.
Assessments, to CAA standards, comprise multiple choice papers and essay questions for the EE programme.
Course and subject tutors are all experienced aircraft maintenance engineers either involved in teaching aeronautical engineering or licensed. The books, compiled and kept up to date by the tutors, are in a form to be understood by the home reader. Text is supported by illustrations, many of which are copyright cleared from aircraft and systems manufacturers.
Our services are used by many airlines/operators who use our books and study programmes for their licence training requirements.
For more detailed information on the Licence you are advised to read BCARs section L/EASA PT 66.
CAA publications may be obtained from The Stationery Office (TSO) who has bookshops throughout the UK (London, Birmingham and, Edinburgh to name a few). For more details contact www.tso.co.uk
In very general terms, the experience requirements for applications to be considered for the EASA licence are:
NOTE: The experience, as far as possible, should be on a representative cross section of tasks on the aircraft appropriate to the licence being sort and experience in engine bays, hydraulic bays, instrument bays etc is not considered eligible.