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Covid-19 Forces Mx Schools To Seek New Ways To Instruct

With stay-at-home directives forcing their facilities to close, aircraft maintenance schools look to technology to continue instruction despite barriers.

Rolls Royce's two-day virtual training course immerses technicians in an augmented environment with realistic images, interactive functions, and auditory feedback.

By Jerry Siebenmark • Senior Editor

May 27, 2020

For the aviation maintenance training community, Covid-19 has presented a number of challenges, but maybe also an opportunity for aircraft maintenance technician (AMT) schools to move beyond traditional methods of instruction—if they can get past the regulatory barriers that have made that transition difficult. That was the message from Aviation Technician Education Council (ATEC) executive director Crystal Maguire, who during a May 14 Helicopter Association International webinar on remote maintenance training and compliance explained those challenges but also illustrated how Part 147 schools had to quickly respond to the effects of the pandemic.

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