8 a.m. to Noon (4-hour session)
Presented by New Horizons

Learn the fundamentals of 2D drafting and design. This essentials of drawing course will help you prepare your wiring diagrams with ease, learn the basic commands, the proper symbols, and discover templates to speed your drawing time. This course is custom designed for the AEA avionics technician to be introductory in nature. Some computer aided drawing experience will help but is not required.


8 a.m. to Noon (4-hour session)
Presented by William Tramper, field service engineer

Trilogy ESI Installation and Flightline Maintenance
This training course focuses on the installation and configuration of the Trilogy family of ESI systems including the ESI-1000 and the ESI-2000 featuring the internal emergency power supply. The training also covers system description, operation, and troubleshooting information for both systems, as well as periodic maintenance and field replacement of the ESI-2000’s internal battery.

SkyWatch and TCAS Systems RF Troubleshooting
RF anomalies in TAS and TCAS systems can be intermittent and difficult to troubleshoot; even the symptoms can be hard to identify and understand. This training course offers the latest troubleshooting techniques on TAS and TCAS RF problems based on real-world scenarios and data.

8 a.m. to 10 a.m. (2-hour session)
Presented by Dave Bostwick, Professor, Baker University

Small businesses don’t necessarily have to spend a lot of money to build an online presence. This session will provide an overview of inexpensive strategies and tools for service-related industries to market themselves, reach new customers, and gain information about their client base.  Anyone is welcome, but the session’s content will be geared toward attendees whose companies are just beginning to develop or enhance their web identity. Besides exploring a variety of online options, we’ll discuss social media trends and study a few cautionary examples of how digital media can have a negative effect on a company’s image.

1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (4-hour session)
Presented by Massoud Sadeghi, FAA

During the late 1990s, the FAA and industry determined they needed a better understanding of wire-related failures that could result in arcing, smoke in the cabin or flight deck and sometimes onboard fires. The FAA’s Enhanced Airworthiness Program for Airplane Systems (EAPAS), established in 2001, has been developing enhancements for continued safety of aircraft wiring systems from their design, installation and maintenance throughout their operational life. The EAPAS program led to a proposed rule in October 2005, which viewed aircraft wiring as important systems on their own.  This rule has a direct affect on any repair station who is maintaining or altering wiring systems in Part 25 aircraft.

The purpose of this training is to provide participants with an overview of the new 14 CFR Part 25 subpart H, Electrical Wiring Interconnection Systems (EWIS) requirements.

Course Objectives:

• The course will expose participants to: Overview of  EAPAS and the elements that make up an EAPAS program.
• Details of the new and revised part 25 electrical wiring interconnections systems (EWIS) certification requirements.
• Details of the requirements and development of EWIS Instructions for Continued Airworthiness (ICA) using an enhanced zonal analysis procedure with real examples/exercise.
• Assessment of design changes and their impacts on the existing EWIS ICA.

This course is designed to familiarize participants about the EAPAS/EWIS requirements necessary for individuals/organizations who wish to pursuing expansion of their delegated authority to include compliance findings to the EWIS requirements.

This course will be led by an FAA engineer who worked on this rule and was instrumental in its policy development.  He also participated in international working groups that were involved in defining the details of the rule and policy.  He is involved in implementing the rule and training FAA engineers, inspectors and DERs about this rule and its policy.

1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (4-hour session)
Presented by New Horizons

Learn the fundamentals of 2D drafting and design. This essentials of drawing course will help you prepare your wiring diagrams with ease, learn the basic commands, the proper symbols, and discover templates to speed your drawing time. This course is custom designed for the AEA avionics technician to be introductory in nature. Some computer aided drawing experience will help but is not required.

*Repeat Course


1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (4-hour session)
Presented by Tom Harper

For dealers who sell, install, service and/or troubleshoot any Avidyne product, this half-day distributor product technical training includes installation, troubleshooting and certification considerations for Entegra Flight Control Series: DFC90, Entegra MFD Series: EX600 MFD, Entegra TAS Series: TAS60, and Entegra Wx Series: TWX670

Avidyne will offer an “AviBucks” coupon for $250 off a future order to those who attend the Avidyne Training Session during the AEA Convention.


1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (4-hour session)
Presented by TexasGYRO

A course designed specifically for avionics technicians to better understand the history, theory and operation of airborne weather radar systems used in general aviation aircraft.
Course objectives include:

• History and theory of GA weather radar systems
• How weather radar systems operate from the pilot’s perspective
• Flight-line troubleshooting and repair of GA weather radar systems
• How to properly interpret the pilot’s complaint, discrepancy and squawk
• Radar stabilization and how to perform a radar stabilization alignment
  
  
  

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Presented by Mike Berryhill, aviation product trainer

In support of its dealers and training requirements of 14 CFR, Section 145.163, Garmin will present this technical training session featuring topics such as the G500H with HSVT™ and HTAWS; G600 with GAD 43 AHRS autopilot adapter and SVT™; G1000 with GSR 56 Global Satellite Datalink and the GDL 59 Wi-Fi Datalink; and GTS 8XX Traffic System with the new Install Tool software. Periods will also be provided for Q&A and discussion, as well as previews of new product announcements from Garmin.


8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Composite Training for Avionics Technicians
Presented by Michael Hoke, President Abaris Training

For certified repair station personnel this presentation will focus on the current status of composite technology, characteristics of advanced composite materials and their role in composite aircraft. Information will be presented on damage assessment methods; damage removal (considerations and techniques); various repair procedures, including taper/step sanding, ply determination, replacement of core, cutting of repair plies and lay-up of plies (orientation); bagging and curing the repair followed by post-inspection. This session will cover aircraft antenna bonding and grounding as well as health and safety issues when working with composites.


8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Presented by John Carr, AEA Canada Regulatory Consultant

This session will focus on the implementation of Safety Management Systems (SMS) to meet the upcoming regulatory requirements for Canadian maintenance organizations as well as the anticipated U.S. repair stations requirements.  The session will explain how a comprehensive Quality Management System (QMS) that is implemented in a CRS to meet Quality Assurance Program requirements will form a sound basis for the future SMS program. An overview will be provided of the gap analysis methodology necessary to evaluate and document the delta between the QMS and SMS requirements.  While focused on the lessons learned in the only AEA demographic to require SMS to date, this presentation is referenced to the ICAO requirements so that the information presented can be utilized by any AEA member anywhere in the world.


8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Presented by Global Jet Services

This seminar is designed as a review for technicians who want to take the NCATT Aircraft Electronics Technician (AET) exam. It also serves as a good review for newer technicians who want to get a feel for the exam topics or for more experienced technicians who need to brush up on the fundamentals. The following are subjects to be reviewed during the full-day seminar: basic circuit calculations; DC (series, parallel, complex); AC (inductive, capacitive, resonant); basic circuit troubleshooting; component review (resistors, inductors, capacitors, transformers); power supplies and filters; wave generation shaping; digital review and logics; maintenance practices; safety hazcom; tech pubs; and wiring.


8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Introduction to Helicopter Automatic Flight Control Systems
Presented by Paul Magno, Worldwide Helicopter Solutions, LLC

The course will introduce basic concepts of helicopter automatic flight control systems including the need for AFCS, the four primary components of all automatic flight control systems, the differences between stability augmentation systems, autopilots and flight directors, and fully automatic flight path control.


8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Presented by Global Jet Services

This RVSM refresher course covers applicable FARs 91.411, 91.413, and Appendix G to re-qualify maintenance personnel, Avionics and A & P Technicians, on the requirements for testing RVSM modified aircraft. The course covers analog and digital Air Data systems, ATC systems and Auto Flight Control systems relation. After completing this course, the technician will be able to troubleshoot a problem to the LRU level and will have a complete understanding of aircraft systems related to RVSM requirements with a high level of confidence.