Aircraft Maintenance License and Courses

I work in SIAEC as a tech and take it from me, don't ever go there. This might wake up their ideas to offer more to their trainees. As someone said, they are just using their reputation to entice you in and once you sign on the dotted line, you are screwed. Unless you win the toto of course.

You have like 13 papers to pass. And if you don't pass them by a required amount of tries, you're fired. With a bond to pay of course. That can go up to $75K !

The current working schedule at line maint is varied. There's 4 on, 3 off. 3 on and 2 off. And one of your day off is not really a off as you finish work at 8 or 10 in the morning.

And no more "free" tickets as well.

And SIAEC LAEs sign for both SIA and foreign airlines. SIA Tech Services Engineer monitor the a/c's maintenance progress. You are better off joining the oil field.

sounds bad ...... night shift...

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Attended a talk in UniSIM just now conducted by ST Aeropace.. they make the company sound really prospective leh.. But they were actually more looking for Degree holders... It appears that there is either a shortage of white collar engineers due to expansion, high turnover rate.. Anybody knows what the life is like working as a white collar engineer in the company?? Prospect better than a LAE??

They are not focusing on just degree holders. Actually they are more looking for mixture of diploma and degree holders. ST is indeed of shortage of LAE. Most of the senior break the bond and left the company after getting their license....

[simonyuan]

Why they broke the bond? Why ST is short of LAE?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I wish you best of luck if you join ST. Don't ask the HR, ask relatives or friends who have worked there.

So you mean ST Aerospace also not a good place to work??

At this point in time, I'll say SAESL and Rolls Royce are good places to work in the aviation sector.

ST Aero LAE program doesn't recognizes ATTC's SAR147 Cat B1.1 training program, they only look at my diploma which is electrical base and told me to start from the basic and do Cat B2. So it made me felt that i wasted my time in here, lucky the course still offer the kingston's Fd program. My classmates are so depressed about it. Cos they had the dream of becoming an LAE and took all the CAAS exam spending abt thousands dollars... and they are invalid if go into ST Aero. I hope the Management can have a word with ST Aero to have solution for this matter.

[vin17]

Hi, i read all of the post regarding LAE in singapore...then what advise do u have for those who are keen to pursuing a license ?? Literally a no no ?

I heard and met some senior LAE who after finally getting their license are doing very well now ( this is in Malaysia )...

So like i was wondering, if u suffer for like the 6-8 years of the bond to get the license and all..is it not worth it ? some of you are already in and have a much better understanding...

Thanks for your opinions

I just completed 5 years at ST Aero and I just got my CAAS license.
What's this fuss about LAE? I see that many of you guys are talking about earning big money. If all you want is big money from your job and nothing else, Accountancy and Banking/Finance should be your best bet.
Being an LAE from nothing is a difficult journey. This is a career that requires a lot of hands-on experience. Reading a million textbooks on aviation/aviation maintenance will not make you an LAE. So for those who think having high aviation academic qualifications means you should qualify as an LAE, you are very very wrong.
Nothing beats spending long long time with the aircraft taking things apart, figuring out why something is damaged and how to rectify it etc. These are things that you can never learn from reading. The best analogy that I can think of is you reading a million recipe books and thinking thereafter that you can be a top chef.
One thing I find missing on the pre-requisites that some guys list here is the Work Schedule, also known is Schedule of Experience(SOE). People list things like CAAS papers, Type Course but the one that takes the most times and is the most tricky is the SOE.
OK, what is SOE. SOE is this document you have to prepare to show what you do EVERYDAY. What task you perform on the aircraft, for example removing the aircraft engine or something as mundane as cleaning the Aircraft toilet tank. There are instructions published by the aircraft manufacturers on how to do these tasks. You have to document every single task you do everyday for 360 days. There are more conditions for a passable SOE but I'll not go into the details. Only then you can put it together with your CAAS paper passes, Type Course Certificates, Academic Certificates etc and submit to CAAS. Then you have to go through interviews where they'll test you on human factors, aviation legislation and the aircraft itself.
I can go on and on forever about this LAE thing. Bottom line is if you are not passionate about aircraft, don't try to be an LAE.

FYI, I graduated from NTU in 2005 and when I entered ST Aero in 2006, I resigned from a $2600 job in oil and gas to get only $1800.

[vin17]

Thanks so much for the reply..
Well u said u joined ST Aero right...how was the experience from 2006 up till now ? U were working as an apprentice right before finally getting your license ?

Am just very curious as in how is the life and process of finally becoming an LAE and how is it now finally that you manage to get your license ?