The Key….Explained!

It might occur to you why we make such a great deal of noise about coming-to-terms-with the C.A.R. Look, let’s face it. You, the first year AME student in a DGCA approved AME training school is quite simply put, a newcomer to the vast and complicated world of aviation. It takes some time and doing within this industry to understand that the suggested vastness and complication of it has a lot to do with the drive to make air travel safe, what in aviation jargon we call Air Safety. No other mode of travel is given so much time and attention in terms of Safety, as in Aviation. Maybe that’s why statistics show that far greater road and rail accidents each year account for lives lost while traveling between cities. To a large extent it is true that air travel in our country also accounts for a very small population of people. However, that is digressing from the point that, Air Safety and all the contributing factors are given a lot of importance compared to other modes of travel. Considering this fact, the regulations governing Air Safety are also made out to be correspondingly vast, all-encompassing, and hence, complicated. What we need to do to master the regulations, is disconnect ourselves from all these facts surrounding the need for regulations to be made so complicated. Just forget for a moment that for us AME’s Air Safety is all-important; and the world starts with it, and ends with it! Lets just forget that and focus on the regulations themselves instead. For simplicity, we could use another term for ‘regulations’. I prefer ‘guidelines’; guidelines for making airworthiness happen. What we’re trying to do then is simplifying an overly complicated set of guidelines into something that’s not just easier to understand (and don’t forget, execute… when you do become AME’s!), but also something that can be committed to memory for exams purposes.That said, the memory requirement is limited only to exams! Unfortunately, not many of us have great memory! I don’t, and though it was not the only reason for failing C.A.R three successive times, it did have a significant role to play in the fourth attempt, which I did pass! Nevertheless, for those with not such great memory, or those who don’t like the idea of having to MUG, there are other ways to remember key points and still be able to get through with the exam. One of those is to convert the language in the C.A.R to a form of communication. Or, in a way that the written media actually talks! In the sentence taken from the C.A.R in my previous topic, my version of it is made out in a way that it actually conveys something, rather than simply stating it. Read it again if you have to. Anything that communicates to you, even via written media, is far easier to commit to memory and recall effectively, as during exams.