NCAA AME Basic Air Law case studies
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The NCAA AME Basic Air Law examination is a knowledge test for candidates seeking an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer licence in Nigeria. It assesses whether an applicant can apply the legal framework that governs maintenance, continuing airworthiness and regulatory compliance - not just technical hand skills. The NCAA AME Basic Air Law case studies are 5 cases and about 4,202 words.
1The Wet-Leased A320 and the Ramp Inspector's Grounding Threat
Sahel Connect Airlines, a Nigerian AOC holder, has wet-leased a 9H-registered Airbus A320-214 from a Maltese lessor for six months to protect its Lagos–Kano–Abuja schedule. The aircraft keeps its Maltese certificate of airworthiness and is maintained under the lessor's EASA Part 145 organisation, but Sahel Connect's own certifying staff carry out the overnight daily and weekly checks at Lagos.
851 words, about 4 min2The Cracked Drag Brace and the Director of Maintenance's 'Ferry'
At Port Harcourt (DNPO), a 5N-registered Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 on a scheduled Nigerian AOC service is inspected during turnaround. The duty engineer, an NCAA-licensed B1 AME, finds a 40 mm crack in the left main landing gear drag-brace forging, confirmed by dye penetrant.
855 words, about 4 min3Recency, Category Limits and a Foreign Licence on a Saturday Night
Mr Adeyemi holds an NCAA AME licence with a B1 (mechanical) category rating and a Boeing 737-800/CFM56-7B type endorsement. For the last 26 months he has worked in the airline's technical records and training departments and has certified nothing; his operator type refresher was due 18 months ago and the airline's authorisation record for him has not been updated.
829 words, about 4 min4The AD Interval Conflict, the 2,940-Cycle Freighter and the Untagged Pump
A Lagos-based cargo operator flies a 5N-registered Boeing 737-300SF that has accumulated 2,940 flight cycles since its last major check. The FAA, as State of Design, has issued an airworthiness directive requiring repetitive eddy-current inspections of the fuselage lap joints at intervals 'not to exceed 3,000 flight cycles', with terminating action available through a Boeing service bulletin.
796 words, about 4 min5The Bleed Valve Return and the Instruction to Write 'No Defect Found'
Twenty minutes after a night departure from Lagos, the crew of a 5N-registered Boeing 737-800 gets a left bleed trip with a cabin altitude fluctuation, levels at FL200 and returns to Lagos, landing without injury or damage. Maintenance finds the high-pressure bleed valve had failed internally; the same valve had been replaced by the operator's own AMO only 40 flight hours earlier.
871 words, about 4 min