[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR147.31]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                               (CONTINUED)

 

PART 147_AVIATION MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN SCHOOLS--Table of Contents

 

                        Subpart C_Operating Rules

 

Sec. 147.31  Attendance and enrollment, tests, and credit for prior 

instruction or experience.





    (a) A certificated aviation maintenance technician school may not 

require any student to attend classes of instruction more than 8 hours 

in any day or more than 6 days or 40 hours in any 7-day period.

    (b) Each school shall give an appropriate test to each student who 

completes a unit of instruction as shown in that school's approved 

curriculum.

    (c) A school may not graduate a student unless he has completed all 

of the appropriate curriculum requirements. However, the school may 

credit a student with instruction or previous experience as follows:

    (1) A school may credit a student with instruction satisfactorily 

completed at--

    (i) An accredited university, college, junior college;

    (ii) An accredited vocational, technical, trade or high school;

    (iii) A military technical school;

    (iv) A certificated aviation maintenance technician school.

    (2) A school may determine the amount of credit to be allowed--

    (i) By an entrance test equal to one given to the students who 

complete a



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comparable required curriculum subject at the crediting school;

    (ii) By an evaluation of an authenticated transcript from the 

student's former school; or

    (iii) In the case of an applicant from a military school, only on 

the basis of an entrance test.

    (3) A school may credit a student with previous aviation maintenance 

experience comparable to required curriculum subjects. It must determine 

the amount of credit to be allowed by documents verifying that 

experience, and by giving the student a test equal to the one given to 

students who complete the comparable required curriculum subject at the 

school.

    (4) A school may credit a student seeking an additional rating with 

previous satisfactory completion of the general portion of an AMTS 

curriculum.

    (d) A school may not have more students enrolled than the number 

stated in its application for a certificate, unless it amends its 

application and has it approved.

    (e) A school shall use an approved system for determining final 

course grades and for recording student attendance. The system must show 

hours of absence allowed and show how the missed material will be made 

available to the student.



[Amdt. 147-2, 35 FR 5534, Apr. 3, 1970, as amended by Amdt. 147-4, 43 FR 

22643, May 25, 1978; Amdt. 147-5, 57 FR 28959, June 29, 1992]