Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer in Malaysia

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Many peoples are wondering about aircraft engineer salary. I must say that pay is quiet reasonable.

Take for example, I know a large number of Malaysia Airlines staff are drawing about RM20,000 per month working as a licensed aircraft engineers at MAS’s hanger.

Last week I received a call from an old friend from MAS, he was working for MHS, or Malaysian Helicopter services. He was drawing RM17,000 from his work at the company servicing the oil rigs of the course on Malaysia.

You may be wondering how come the aircraft engineer salary is high. This is how it can be..

Basic Salary ————– RM 7,000

Technical allowance …    RM1,200

Productivity allowance  RM1,000

License Allowance            RM 3,000

Holiday Pay                         RM 2,000

Overtime                              RM3,000

Total  RM17,200

Yes, it is possible. License allowance is given for additional license you hold. If you have B737 airframe, the company pay RM500.  As you work longer, you will accumulate more license. There are many of the staff who have more than RM3,000 for his license allowance alone.

The holiday pay is when you work on public holidays. You will be paid 3 times your normal rate. This is how it is calculated..

Your monthly salary + allowable allowance — e.g RM 9000

divide by working day per month e.g 20

Then your daily rate is RM 450.

When you work on public holiday= 3 time pay.

The you will be pais RM450x3 = RM1350

In Malaysia you will find so much of public holiday. That is one of the reason why the aircraft engineer salary is high.

One of the training school that approved by EASA

Why The Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Matters

The Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer

Why the Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer is important:

The licensed engineer is the sole arbitrator of safety whilst the aircraft is on the ground. The Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer will only supply their signature to a Certificate of Release to Service (CRS) when he/she are 100% certain that the aircraft is safe to fly. The CRS is a legal statement clearing an aircraft, as far as engineering is concerned, to fly. In effect, the engineer has taken full responsibility for the quality of any maintenance performed while the aircraft was on the ground.

Why maintenance matters:

There is a close link between standards of maintenance and safety. The

International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has established minimum standards of airworthiness and operational safety for operating aircraft. The Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer has studied long and hard to obtain his qualification in accordance with ICAO requirements.

Why aviation is different from other sectors of industry:

The key feature making aviation different from other sectors of industry is

safety criticality. It is true that safety is also important for other transport sectors,

but the failure of a key system during aircraft operation is more likely to lead to

catastrophic results. The Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer is a key figure in ensuring that your flight was completed not only safely but also without event.

Why the year of the Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer:

Airline operators are under enormous pressure to produce a profit. The Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer and in fact maintenance as a whole are not often seen in the limelight and so are considered by many as an easy target for cost cutting. This type of cost cutting takes on many forms but needless to say very few are actually beneficial to you the passengers.

Recently an attempt was made by industry to severely reduce the involvement and effect of the Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer. This had the potential to have been the single most effective cost cutting exercise to have negatively affected safety to date. The License itself is an independently issued document belonging to the individual. This personal licence coupled with company supplied specific aircraft type training ensures that maintenance is performed and supervised by highly trained individuals.

As the link between standards of maintenance and safety has already been established by ICAO, any cut backs here can only increase the risks of air travel.

What is Aerospace Engineering and Career Scope?

What is Aerospace Engineering and Career Scope?

Aerospace Engineer Job Description:
As an aerospace engineer, you could be working on a mission to the Orion space, which plans on putting astronauts on the moon by 2020. Or, you can be involved in developing a new generation of space telescopes,  the source of some of the most significant discovery of the universe. But the space is just one of many areas to explore, as an aerospace engineer. You could develop commercial airliners, military aircraft, helicopters, or  for our airways. And it becomes even more down to earth, you could design the latest land and sea transport, including high-speed trains, racing cars, or deep-sea vessels that explore life on the ocean floor.

Aerospace Engineers Working Projects:

• Improving the safety of space shuttles
• Building a more spacious passenger plane
• The establishment of satellite detection of drought in parts of the world
• Design robots to collect samples on other planets, showing a deep understanding of our Galaxy
• Development of parachutes, using new materials to improve their performance.

Aerospace Engineer Salaries:
B.S. degree
$ 66,335
M.S. degree
$ 79,506
Ph.D.
$ 95,025

Aircraft Maintenance Engineers(AMEs) are Certified Licensed Engineers

Aircraft Maintenance Engineers(AMEs) are Certified Licensed Engineers

Aircraft Maintenance Engineering:

Aircraft Maintenance Engineers(AMEs) are certified licensed engineers and registered under the Aviation Regulating Authority of that country (Malaysia it is DCA Malaysia). AMEs ensures the safety of an aircraft and are responsible for the release(certification) of aircraft after routine maintenance along with monitoring the condition of an aircraft and rectifying the snags or defects occurred during the flights. A qualified Aircraft Maintenance Engineer certifies that the aircraft, engines and components are fit for flight and is airworthy to fly without any jeopardize.

Aircraft Maintenance Engineering

 In Aviation safety remains the biggest concern. Aircraft Maintenance Engineers will carryout periodic inspections and recognize the defects and fixing the problems. AMEs keep a log of  all repair parts and work done on an aircraft. AMEs work is not as glamorous as being a pilot's, but Aircraft Maintenance Engineers are vital to the aviation industry. You can't think or fly without AMEs.

  In this article i introduced, who and what is AME? In next post there is lot more to know about AMEs career and scope of work.
Keep hitting on me, catch soon ..,

 Happy AME !

Best iPhone App For Aerospace|Aeronautical Maintenance Engineering Students: Explore The Mysteries of Universe on your iPhone

Best iPhone App For Aerospace|Aeronautical Maintenance Engineering Students: Explore The Mysteries of Universe on your iPhone

The NASA App for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

Are you in a mood of  Space Exploration? NASA has developed an iphone application NASA App HD for the iPad that will remain you online and in touch with space. At the touch of your screen unfold the hidden mysteries of the universe, access to all the answer the universe has to offer.

NASA App

iPhone application NASA App HD by NASAcombines all of your favorite NASA images, videos, missions and information into one, easy-to-use, application. It's available free of charge on the App Store from Apple directly on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad or within iTunes. WiFi or 3G network connection required, no flash is required for this iphone app.

Features:

• Thousands of images from NASA IOTD, APOD and NASAImages.org
• On demand NASA Videos from around the agency
• Live Streaming of NASA TV
• Current NASA Mission Information
• Launch Information & Countdown clocks
• Current Visible Passes for the International Space Station (ISS)
• ISS and Earth Orbiting Satellite Tracker
• NASA Twitter Feeds from around the agency
• Facebook® Connect and Integrated Twitter™ client for easy sharing
• Map and links to all of the NASA centers
• Quick links to the NASA topic areas
• Featured content section

This iPhone App alone is almost worth the price of your iPad. (available free of charge on the App Store from Apple)

Best iPhone Apps for Engineering Maintenance Students

Best iPhone Apps for Engineering Maintenance Students

 iPhone Apps in iTunes are thousands and many are free.

Want free iphone apps? Start in itunes

• Best  iphone apps is in itunes on the homepage of the App Store

• Top ten list of free apps can be find on right side of the screen

• Click on "see all' link

• A page loads with each category of free iphone apps in itunes specific to that category

AppDay and AppShopper are free iphone apps websites and you can find all free apps.

 “Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world,” Gates said at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA today. “It will be better than any single university,” he continued.

 Gates said that technology is the only way to bring education back under control and expand it.

 Bill Gates is Right. So, here are :
Free Engineering  iPhone Apps

AEC Info:
Get the latest architectural, engineering, and construction industry new and opinions right on your iPhone! Whether you are an industry professional or just someone interested in these topics, you'll want to download this app

Punch in Numbers:
This is a calculator application that gives students access to a fully functional scientific calculator. 

X-Plane TRAINER:
Based on the X-Plane engine, this gives you a Cessna 172 trainer and all of the flying regions of the full X-Plane.This training really helps you fly the plane more accurately (like a REAL one!) and I find that as I fly X-Plane trainer, I really do fly it more like a REAL plane because of the tips on power, flaps, speed, and altitude that keep my flight under control, rather than getting too fast or high on approach!

Dictionary.com:
This app is a must have application for students of all ages. It incorporates a dictionary, thesaurus and a word of the day feature. Students can have the words pronounced out loud to them, and examples of how to use the words in a sentence correctly are also included.

World Wiki:
Master international relations with this demographic goldmine. World Wiki collates information from over 200 countries from Wikipedia, and organizes them into useful categories like capital cities, currencies, flags, governments, populations and even national anthems

Evernote:
This app can help students take notes and organize web media easily. You can take a photo, a screenshot, a typed note or save a web page and Evernote will save it, index it and make it searchable for when you need it most. In short it lets you learn on the go, and keep track of the most interesting notes and media that students might need for a class project or presentation. Best of all, it works  on PCs, Macs and other portable devices, so the content you save on one is available to view on all the rest. When used well, this is easily one of the best apps for education users.

 Free Wi-Fi Finder:
Students are always strapped and find it difficult at time to afford wireless network connection to carry out their studies. Free Wi-Fi finder allows them to locate free internet portals that they can log unto to gain access to their universities.

I Student:
This application allows you to input your class schedule and other important events such as homework, exam dates, and department meetings. This eliminates reasons for students to be late.

iTune U:
iTune U is designed specifically for the Online University community. It contains lectures from various courses offered by the leading online universities. Via their 3G iPhone network, students can easily watch and listen to lectures from the over 200,000 available audio and video files.

iTalk Recorder:
This applications allows students to record anything from lectures, notes read aloud or just their own ideas on the go. They can then replay them at anytime.

Fring:
Fring allows you to instant message your entire online student peers at once by combining all your registered instant message providers.

Looking for a Aviation Jobs in Aviation Industry. Never go to an Interview Unprepared again!

Looking for a Aviation Jobs in Aviation Industry. Never go to an Interview Unprepared again!

 Key Elements for  an Aviation Careers in today's Aviation Industry:

"Take charge of your future today"
the aviation industry offers career opportunity to suite many interests and backgrounds. As aviation remains an integral part of our society, there is a growing need for qualified maintenance personnel.

"Plan for you're future". 

very reason many enter into aviation industry dreaming big, but in the process they end up a looser(serious tone).this statement more applicable to students of Aircraft Maintenance Engineering License.
AS in my earlier articles i said AME is not exiting nor as glamor as other Aviation careers. So  in the process many aircraft maintenance engineering students lacks the interest and zeal as it was in the beginning of their career.

Here listed 
Things for successful  Aviation Careers:

Know what to expect ... Be Who You Want To Be
keep an early bird view on your career

Know what airlines really look for ...
keep updating on industry news

Know where to find the jobs ...
know the right place and be at right time to capture your big dream

Never go to an interview unprepared ...
know your basics

know the application process ...
know the knowledge of applying knowledge at the right time and at right place ...  keep busy in touch with right aviation consultancy

know the attitude ...
keep professionalism and be fast learner.
particularly aircraft maintenance engineers and aviation mechanic. A slight negligence from you side results great loss in lives

One of the most important skills that a maintenance engineer must develop is the skill to ignore those things that were designed by non-pilots to get the pilot's attention.

Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory... in other words, for every take-off, there WILL be a landing.

Keep looking around; there's always something you've missed.

Fuel in the tanks is limited. Gravity is forever.

Never trust a fuel gauge.

"Remember, you’re always a student in an airplane."