Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Course Details

Posted on : 25 November, 2017 10:16 am

Aircraft Maintenance Engineering is the international aviation course regulated Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Ministry of Civil Aviation, Govt. of India. AME is responsible for safety, security and maintenance of an aircraft. AME CET is a National level AME Entrance Exam for admission in India’s topmost Government regulated Aircraft Maintenance Engineering institutions in India. By clearing this AME CET Exam, students will get admission though counselling in Government recognized AME institutions. AME is basically a 4 years trainning course in which the students are trained in the best way to keep the aircraft in a perfect flying condition. Once a student completes the 2 years training and than 2 years trainning in flying aircrafts, he/she gets a AME License which is issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Govt of India. After get this license an individual can do job in Govt and Private sector worldwide.

Eligibility for Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Course

  • 10+2 in science stream with 45% marks in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics.
  • Or three-year diploma in any stream of Engineering.
  • Any higher qualification in science with Physics and Mathematics.
  • Age limit for this course is 24 years for science and engineering students.

AME Course Details

The duration of this course is 4 years in which student have to complete 2 years. In which 2 years student has to complete his theoretical academic program in Campus and than 2 years practical training as per international standard on working aircrafts. Between these 2 years student has to complete 17 modules. Once a student clears all the modules and g` he/she will get a certificate of basic AME. However, to get the full license, he/she should clear Paper 4 in a particular area of competence. There are to streams of AME

  1. Mechanical
  2. Avionics

Skills of AME License

  1. Willing to travel internationally.
  2. Willing to travel and comfortable with shift jobs.
  3. All technical knowledge of an Aircraft.
  4. If you are an AME then you must have a passion for innovating new ideas and suggestions.

Scope of AME course

There is a wide scope of this course and the reason behind is the growing aviation sector. Every year new planes are bought by the airline companies to add new air paths to the sky. This course teaches the basics of automatic control guidance, propulsion, electronics, structural analysis, fluid dynamics, the theory of aerodynamics, material science. After finishing this course, candidates are entitled to get jobs in aircraft and airports maintenance and manufacturing firms where they can get attractive salary packages. The salary after getting the license can be 1 lakh to 1.5 lakh per month.

If you are planning to opt for AME CET then you can apply both online and offline, this exam is in both Hindi as well as in English medium and is an objective based exam. On the basis of AME CET 2022, AIR students can take part in counseling to approve their admission.