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Ramp Inspection Awareness Training
One day for the people on the other side of the inspection: the operator.
Length1 day
FormatOnline
DeliveryInstructor-led
FrameworksEASA · ICAO · FAA
About the course
What an inspector looks for, why, and what happens afterwards. Participants leave knowing how to keep findings off the report, how to handle an inspection on the day, and how to answer one properly when it does produce findings.
Who it is for
- Flight crew and cabin crew
- Flight operations, ground operations and OCC staff
- Continuing airworthiness (CAMO) and line maintenance staff
- Compliance monitoring, quality and safety managers
- Ground handling supervisors
You will be able to
- Know when and why an aircraft gets inspected, at home and abroad
- Know what the inspector checks, area by area
- Prevent the findings operators receive most often
- Handle the inspection on the day, as crew and as the operator
- Respond to findings with corrective action the authority will accept
Course outline
One day1
Awareness day
- Why ramp inspections exist: EASA, ICAO and FAA in brief
- How aircraft are selected for inspection
- The checklist, area by area: flight deck, cabin, aircraft condition, cargo
- The findings operators receive most often, and how to prevent them
- On the day: crew conduct, documents to have ready, the time on the ground
- After the inspection: finding categories, classes of action, corrective action
- What repeated findings lead to: TCO authorisation and the EU Air Safety List
- Running your own self-inspection programme
The course is built on the published rules and guidance: Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 Part-ARO Subpart RAMP with its AMC and GM, ICAO Annex 6 and Doc 8335, and FAA Order 8900.1. Whether it counts towards an inspector’s formal qualification is for the competent authority to decide.
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