Fit for Maintenance – Covering EASA and FAA regulations with regular staff training
Training by Experts for Experts
Airplanes require reliable parts and regular maintenance to fly safely. To keep an airplane in operating condition, aircraft and avionics equipment mechanics and technicians perform scheduled maintenance, make repairs, and complete inspections to ensure flight travel is safe and on schedule. These workers analyze complex problems and develop safe, workable solutions quickly to get aircraft back up in the air, often in a matter of hours. To ensure maximum health and safety for these maintenance personnel, regular training is necessary.
- Training satisfies the accountability requirement for the EASA and the FAA. The requirements placed on maintenance operations for aircraft are clearly regulated by the European aircraft authority EASA in the Part 145 specification. These include, among others, keeping records for maintenance personnel regarding the use of maintenance equipment.
- Regular training ensures maximum occupational health and safety for the personnel when using maintenance equipment and guarantees smooth aircraft maintenance.
- Regular training assures permanent employee qualification for the operation of maintenance equipment.
HYDRO can perform maintenance and operator training at the 10 Service Center worldwide to ensure safe and smooth aircraft maintenance.
Figure: Globally, 10 Service Centers offer both operator and maintenance training courses
Since aviation maintenance requires such a wide range of skills, we have the perfect training module for every maintenance personnel skill level.
Operator training – Get your basic HYDRO product knowledge
In this program, we impart basic knowledge on HYDRO Ground Support Equipment. The one-day training course provides detailed knowledge on how to operate HYDRO tripod-jacks, axle-jacks and tow-bars. The basic operator training course enables you to safely jack an aircraft. You will be able to operate HYDRO products as efficiently as possible, always keeping health & safety as top priorities. After completing the training course, every participant will receive a certificate valid for 2 years. The operator training is relevant for EASA as well as FAA audits and needs to be refreshed in a Refresher training course every other year.
Figure: Austrian Airlines maintenance personnel during refresher training at the Service Center in Biberach, Germany. This training is required every 2 years.
Maintenance training – Advanced skills for product maintenance
Maintenance training builds on the Basic operator program and deepens the technical knowledge of HYDRO products. What measures are necessary in preventive maintenance to ensure a long product life and maximum health & safety for your personnel for various products such as tripod-jacks or axle-jacks? How do I make the repairs, for example, changing the seals for a tripod-jack? What kind of tools do I need for this? What do I do to satisfy all the directives? All these questions will be answered.
This program for both beginners and advanced students also covers how to correctly operate test equipment to recertify Ground Support Equipment regularly. After successfully completing the training, every participant receives a certificate that is valid for 2 years. Following this, only a 1-day refresher course is necessary.
COBRA Training Center – for the fastest engine change without operational failure and technical risks
The engine is the heart of each aircraft and has to be maintained and overhauled according to strict criteria. Our COBRA engine change system is the cost-effective, safe and highly efficient system solution for your engine maintenance. It is compatible with all of today’s commercial and military aircraft. COBRA has been designed to ensure a fast engine change and to minimize operational failure and technical risks. This provides tremendous benefits by reducing costs through minimal aircraft downtimes.
To ensure your personnel is comfortable with operating the COBRA and you get maximum benefit out of this product for your engine changes, we highly recommend a COBRA training program for every operator. This two-day program includes ½ day of theoretical classroom training to become familiar with the basics. After that, you’re ready to start using our COBRA test stand to change an engine on your own. The good thing about this is we have dummy test loads available that can simulate every type of engine. For example, 6 metric ton weight with the appropriate mounting points for the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine on an Airbus A380. Every engine behaves differently during the removal and installation process. This realistic simulation gives you the feeling that you can try everything and cannot do anything wrong.
Training also includes the following:
- comprehensive equipment information
- positioning the COBRA beneath the engine using a laser
- troubleshooting
- introduction to basic functions such as creating a load sheet specific for the engine stand
- simulation of a preload (OEM-specific contact pressures to release the engine)
- actual installation and removal of the engine
Figure: The COBRA Training Center provides you with the opportunity to learn how to handle the COBRA engine change system using dummy engines
Interested in one of our training programs? Contact your local Area Sales Manager or your local Service Center