145.A.37 Airworthiness review staff

(a)‘Experience in continuing airworthiness’ in 145.A.37(a)(1) refers to any appropriate combination of experience in tasks related to aircraft maintenance and/or continuing airworthiness management and/or surveillance of such tasks.

(b)‘Appropriate recent continuing airworthiness experience’ in 145.A.37(c) refers to the fact that in order to keep the validity of the airworthiness review staff authorisation, the airworthiness review staff should have either:

(1)been involved in continuing airworthiness management activities for at least 6 months in every 2-year period; or

(2)conducted at least one airworthiness review in the last 12-month period.

(c)In order to restore the validity of the authorisation, the airworthiness review staff should conduct at a satisfactory level an airworthiness review under the supervision of the competent authority or, if accepted by the competent authority, under the supervision of another currently authorised airworthiness review staff of the organisation concerned in accordance with an approved procedure.

ACCEPTANCE AND AUTHORISATION OF AIRWORTHINESS REVIEW STAFF (ARS) The process of acceptance and authorisation of a new ARS within a Part-145 organisation includes the following steps (the order of certain steps may vary): The organisation verifies the compliance of the candidate ARS with point 145.A.37(a); The candidate ARS is assessed while performing an airworthiness review (AR) under supervision (supervision by the competent authority or supervision by an ARS already authorised by the organisation) (145.A.37(b)); The organisation submits an application for change (requiring prior approval) to the competent authority (ref. 145.A.85) together with the proposed amendment to the MOE (candidate ARS introduced in the list of ARS — ref. 145.A.70(a)(6)); Based on the results of the AR and its supervision, the competent authority accepts the candidate (regardless of whether the supervision was done by the competent authority or by the organisation); The competent authority approves the MOE; The organisation issues the AR authorisation to the ARS.