Western
Aircraft Maintenance Engineers
Association

 Update 2012 Annual Airworthiness Symposium
and Trade Show was a success!

 Edmonton, March 28 - 30

Click here for details.     Updated April 2nd

Apr 3 NEWS ITEM:  Minister instructs Transport Canada to implement the Auditor General's recommendations on civil aviation oversight, April 3, 2012:
 For press release, click here.  For the Auditor General's report, click here.


 Max Ward Aviation Maintenance Award Recipient for 2012 is Dave Dueck

Dave Dueck, AME, educator and passionate advocate for the AME, has been selected to receive the trophy...

Click on the NEWS tab.
Members:  we have started a photo album with pictures from you.  Have a look, and send in any you'd like to post!

Transport Canada Aviation Safety Letter 1/2012 is now on-line, click to view.

To all members: Have you moved, or changed your email address? Your email is critical to our communications with you. Please ensure your profile is correct and up to date. Click here to change it.


SMS documentary on CBC news.  Click here. 
Nov 9 2011 CBC National News documentary on Transport Canada's Safety Management Systems impact on aviation.
 "I am confident that this documentary will be of interest to all who fly." 
Virgil Moshansky, author of the Dryden crash report.


Australian type of W5 on overseas maintenance done on Quantas.   Worth the time to watch!  From 2010.
Is Canada far behind?  Should we as AMEs be organized to monitor this?  - pj.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9q2RLQmFuk&feature=player_embedded#m


News Bulletin:
Hartzell Prop Aluminum Blade Repair Service Letter issued Oct 21, 2011.

Documents affecting continued airworthiness for Hartzell props with aluminum blades were issued recently.  AMEs and AMOs doing prop blade repairs need to know about this, and you can get these documents here.

The service letter HC-SL-651-324 covers relief from mandatory LPI of blade dressing repairs, and the letter from Hartzell extends their offer of support and suggests petitioning Transport Canada for this relief to be recognized. 

Click here for the SL.   Click here for the letter from Hartzell            Posted Oct 25, 2011.



Here's the question:  Are AMEs ready, willing and able to formally create the Profession of Aircraft Maintenance Engineer in Canada?
 
Association president Peter Jenkins' talk to the general assembly at the Symposium in March was about what it means to be a Professional.  It's how we are trained, it's how we behave, but as it stands, we have no legal status except under the CARs.

Reading "about us" below, - the mission statement and purposes that the association has laid out in its founding documents - what progress has really been made?  Think about it.  In the twenty six years since formation, we have been running annual symposiums, and we have had some consultations with Transport Canada over the licensing changes, but as a totally volunteer-run association, that has been about all we've done. 

I am inviting comments and input from all as to whether we should continue as a volunteer association limited to a once-a-year symposium, or should we pursue aggressively the goal of professional status, not unlike that enjoyed by the engineers, accountants, doctors and lawyers? 

This is a big issue, and it will cost time and money to achieve.  Your board is starting to look into what such a professional association would look like, on a Canada-wide basis.  We have the unique opportunity to set an international standard for professionalism in our industry.       Click here to read the article based on my talk.

Then, we'd like to hear from you.
Click on the Blogs tab and write your thoughts.  Or send me an email - president@wamea.com


Remember who runs the world:  it's those who show up.  

Peter Jenkins
president, WAMEA

This site is becoming our main communications tool.   You will find news, reports, contact info, and online registration and payment features for events and membership.   If you are a WAMEA member, please sign in with your email address (upper right corner)  in order to sign up for events and see additional member only information.

About Us ...

OUR MISSION STATEMENT:

"WAMEA shall be a non-profit organization
equipping its members with the knowledge which
distinguishes the occupation of Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (AMEs) in the aviation industry".

The Western AME Association is one of five similar associations across Canada, the others being the Atlantic, Ontario, Central and Pacific associations.

These associations represent regional interests as well as concerns of national importance.
The Canadian Federation of Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Associations (CFAMEA) is a national body which is supported and financed by all the regional associations and which represents the associations at the national level.


The Western AME Association is run by a volunteer group of AMEs who are elected by the member AMEs to the Board of Directors. The membership is comprised of AMEs, non-licensed personnel working in the industry, students and apprentices as well as corporate members.

The purpose of the association is to maintain and enhance the standards of professionalism of the AME and the aircraft maintenance industry as a whole and to protect the rights and privileges of the AME. The association works with and is consulted by Transport Canada in the formulation of new rules and regulations to promote the viewpoint of the AME. We are represented on various committees and working groups involved with aircraft maintenance and licensing.

A separate committee under the auspices of the association runs an annual symposium/workshop. This workshop is a two-day event which features speakers on a variety of related topics, as well as an industry tradeshow with over fifty booths from various companies, suppliers, manufacturers and other organizations. Attendance at this and our various other smaller workshops may be counted towards the recurrent training requirements required by Transport Canada.
The purpose and objectives of this association are:
  1. To promote and protect the profession of the Aircraft Maintenance Engineer.
  2. To develop, maintain and improve representation and consultation with regulatory bodies that affect or may affect the profession of the Aircraft Maintenance Engineer.
  3. To represent the views and objectives of the membership of the Association.
  4. To promote and develop the knowledge, skill and proficiency of the profession of the Aircraft Maintenance Engineer through education, publication and research.
  5. To cooperate and associate with groups, associations and organizations on matters of mutual interest.
  6. To promote honorable practices among the membership and between persons in the aviation industry.
  7. The Association is non-union, non-sectarian and non-partisan.

Bylaws

WAMEA Bylaws (.pdf document)

CFAMEA Bylaws (.pdf document)

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"The world is run by those who show up"

 
 

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