AMP Familiarisation: Read and Work Any AMP

If you work to an Aircraft Maintenance Programme every day but were never taught where it came from, this aircraft maintenance programme familiarisation course is built for you.

Planners live inside the AMP. They open it, schedule from it, package it into checks and answer for it when a task slips. Yet most people arrive at that job having inherited the document with no explanation – no idea which line is a manufacturer recommendation and which is untouchable law, or why one task repeats every 750 flight hours and another every 24 months. This course closes that gap. It does not teach you to author an AMP. It teaches you to read and work one with complete confidence.

In about two hours across 6 short modules, you will follow every task in the AMP back to its source – the MSG-3 decision logic, the Maintenance Review Board Report, the MPD, the Airworthiness Limitations and CMRs, airworthiness directives, service bulletins and your own operator experience. You will learn the MSG-3 task types and the older on-condition, hard-time and condition-monitoring language auditors still use; how intervals are expressed in flight hours, cycles and calendar time; how tasks package into letter checks, phased and equalised programmes; and where sampling, thresholds and repeat intervals fit. Then the part that protects you: which items — ALIs, CDCCLs and CMRs and the structural programme – can never be moved, what permitted variations and escalation actually allow under M.A.302, and how an amendment properly reaches the aircraft.

Why Choose Our Aircraft Maintenance Programme Familiarisation Course?

• Built around the planner’s real question – what is this task, where did it come from, and may I move it?
• Task provenance done properly – the full chain from MSG-3 logic through MRBR and MPD to the line in your AMP, which most courses skip entirely.
• The limits that matter – ALI, CDCCL and CMR explained as an operational constraint, not certification theory.
• Two real case studies – Aloha Airlines 243 and Alaska Airlines 261, the second of which is the definitive cautionary tale on interval escalation.
• Current – built on Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014 as amended to 2026, with AMC & GM to Part-M at Issue 2, Amendment 10.
• Assessment & certificate – a LearnDash question bank and a Raven certificate on completion.

AMP Familiarisation or Development? (please read before you buy)

This Familiarisation course teaches you to read and work an existing AMP – about 2 hours. If your role is to build and defend one – set the programme basis, assemble it from source data, run the reliability programme, get it approved and optimise it – choose the AMP & Reliability Programme Development course instead.

You never need to buy both. The Development course already contains every waypoint in this Familiarisation course and adds more specialised ones.

Where This Course Sits

Raven’s AMP training is one library of waypoints published as three nested courses. This aircraft maintenance programme familiarisation course sits in the middle: it contains the free AMP: An Introduction in full, and AMP Development contains it in full.

Target Audience

Built for the people who use an AMP rather than author it. A working knowledge of continuing airworthiness helps but is not required.

• Primary: CAMO maintenance planners, planning and scheduling staff, and technical-records staff who work to the AMP daily.
• Secondary: new or incoming CAMO continuing-airworthiness staff, Part-145 planning engineers who receive the work packages, CAO personnel, and anyone moving into continuing airworthiness from another discipline

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

• Where every task in an AMP originates: MSG-3 decision logic, the MRB process and MRBR, the MPD, the Airworthiness Limitations Section and CMRs, airworthiness directives, service bulletins, ageing-aircraft rules and operator experience.
• The MSG-3 task types (lubrication/servicing, operational and visual checks, GVI/DET/SDI inspections, functional check, restoration, discard) and the on-condition, hard-time and condition-monitoring processes they map to.
• What the AMP must contain under M.A.302(f) and Appendix I to AMC M.A.302, what it must demonstrate compliance with under M.A.302(d), and the periodic review duty under M.A.302(h).

Skill

• Read any line of an AMP and identify the task type, its source document, the usage parameter driving its interval, and its mandatory status.
• Recognise how tasks package into letter checks, phased and equalised programmes, and how utilisation, operating environment and low-utilisation or storage change the binding constraint.
• Distinguish a permitted variation from an escalation, and know which items may never be re-intervalled.

Competence

• Work confidently and defensibly inside an approved AMP – scheduling from it, protecting its untouchable content, recognising when a change must go through the controlled amendment pipeline, and explaining any task’s provenance to an auditor.

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