Get A&P while working full time?

[kevmor99]

I was looking at the requirements to become an A&P, and it looks like you have to either get on the job training or attend a school basically. The school in my area don't have classes at night, so how would one working full time get an A&P? Does the on the job experience count if you're only working there part time?

 

[CFI A&P]

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_G...e42d2d55aad3cef186256a64004dd78c!OpenDocument

Only says "months". Nothing about hours - full time / part time. Call your FSDO and ask them what their interpretation of this is. Ultimately you'll need a signature from them on an 8610 form to take the written exams prior to the oral and practical.

 

[trafficinsight]

On the job experience all counts, make sure you're keeping time cards and descriptions of what you do each day. I think the number of hours is somewhere around 2500 if I remember right for both airframe and powerplant ratings.

 

[juandigital]

The fastest way is to attend a part 147 school. Otherwise you need 30 months of hands on, well documented experience for both certificates. I would assume this is working "full time" but that is up to the administrator viewpoint. It would suck going into it thinking 30 months would be good enough only to find out working part time means you need 60 months total. The other benefit to going to a school is that you will learn exactly what you need in order to pass the A&P tests. Good luck,

 

[Inverted25]

We had a guy in our shop do it just recently and he had to have over 3000 hours before they would let him take the test. This was with the Cleveland FSDO

 

[esa17]

I earned mine through practical experience and most certainly didn't work "full-time" for about half of it. Just be able to document and justify your experience.

The Dallas FSDO didn't ask for time cards, work notes or anything else. I presented them with letters from the guys (A&Ps) I worked for outlining what type of work I did and that was satisfactory.

All in all it took me about 4 years to earn mine.

 

[knot4u]

I went to school during the day and worked full-time at night doing line service. It took four semesters at a community college. Some of the connections I made during that time have proven to be invaluable twenty years later. It was hard, but I was young, dumb, and full of ***.