M1 and M2 licensing.

[pilotdreams]

If you have your M2, whats it take to get your M1?

[qa guy]

I believe it is 12 months experience on M1 aircraft and 70% of the applicable tasks signed off in your log book.

[iflyforpie]

Correct. I did most of my time on M2, but was laid off three months before my 48 months was up. I put in a year at a small shop, got my logbook signed, and was issued an M1 and M2.

[mag check]

I'm not sure, but isn't there a couple of exams as well? Probably small piston engines, and small rotorcraft?

[Bullet Remington]

I'm not sure, but isn't there a couple of exams as well? Probably small piston engines, and small rotorcraft?

Nope. No special exams! the exams are the same whether all your apprengtice time was spent on fixed wing or helicopters. They don't differentiate.

[iflyforpie]

Back in the old days (about ten years ago), there was like 7 exams for M2 and an additional three for M1. I'd completed all my M2 exams when they changed it to the four tests they have now and I didn't have to do any other tests except CARS when I got my M1.

Now you do three tests in school plus CARS as you are completing your requirements for either license.

[hella_bright]

Actually it is minimum 6 months time, not 12, before you can be issued an M1 rating, if you already have an M2 License... and of course another log book completed with 70% tasks completed on M1 aircraft.

[brownbear]

no it's 12months.

For either direction. M1 to M2 or M2 to M1.
http://www.tc.gc.ca/civilaviation/RegSe ... 566s01.htm

The 6 month requirement is "on type" before a maintenance release could be signed. Which could be part of the 12 months for the total on the large type or small type.

[rockerboss]

I just got my M2 a year ago and TC made me wait 12 months.

[Bones]

Same.
I went m1 -> m2 and it was a logbook and a year on m2 a/c.

But like anything else I think it depends on who you get in TC and what day you get them on.

[hella_bright]

no it's 12months.

For either direction. M1 to M2 or M2 to M1.
http://www.tc.gc.ca/civilaviation/RegSe ... 566s01.htm

The 6 month requirement is "on type" before a maintenance release could be signed. Which could be part of the 12 months for the total on the large type or small type.

Yes, my mistake. I got my M2 first as I didn't have enough tasks completed at that time to apply for both. 6 months later I submitted for my M1.

[mag check]

Back in the old days (about ten years ago), there was like 7 exams for M2 and an additional three for M1. I'd completed all my M2 exams when they changed it to the four tests they have now and I didn't have to do any other tests except CARS when I got my M1.

Now you do three tests in school plus CARS as you are completing your requirements for either license.

Oh sorry, I didn't realize that the new guys have it so easy.

[qa guy]

anyone who graduated basic training after 2001 does not have to write the transport exams. I think as an industry we need to make it harder to get a license, not easier. We are not licensing the most committed people this way. The high supply of licensed AME's is going to screw us in the end.