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AMS, PAMA join on tech certification

Maintenance professionals will soon be able to quantify the training they have received as a part of their jobs.

By David A. Lombardo • Contributor

March 19, 2008

Maintenance professionals will soon be able to quantify the training they have received as a part of their jobs. Recently, the Aircraft Maintenance Society (AMS) was taken under the wing of the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) to form PAMA-AMS. The organization’s members will be able to establish a baseline of current qualifications and work toward achieving higher educational milestones and validate their achievements.

“The certification of mechanics has come down a long and rocky road,” PAMA president Brian Finnegan said. “Some of the proposed FAA plans over the years would have been very difficult to implement. We believed a voluntary program was the right answer.”

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