Training and Workforce
Training gives repair stations an extra edge
“It doesn’t matter how small the operation, training is a key component to safety and success,” Sarah MacLeod, executive director of the Alexandria, Va.-ba

“It doesn’t matter how small the operation, training is a key component to safety and success,” Sarah MacLeod, executive director of the Alexandria, Va.-based Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) told AIN. “Training for FAR Part 145 repair facilities has been an issue for the 17 years I’ve been in aviation, and even a lot longer before then. Shops that don’t recognize this deserve to go under.”

MacLeod said training is critical to “breeding” the next generation of maintenance personnel, and stressed that an initial and recurrent training program should be in place for all existing Part 145 operations, even though the regulations don’t specifically require them. “It shames me that the automotive and construction equipment industries are so far ahead of us when they don’t have the kind of legal responsibility we do,” she said.

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