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    This document discusses the qualifications required for personnel performing nondestructive testing (NDT) inspections. It notes that currently there is no national FAA policy on NDT qualifications. The FAA has provided guidance stating that NDT personnel should meet standards for vision/color testing, training, experience, and certification in specific test methods. Several national and international standards are identified as acceptable for assuring personnel qualifications, including standards from ASNT, ATA, AIA, Canada, Britain, and ISO. The document emphasizes that simply holding an A&P license does not qualify someone to perform NDT and that inspectors must use techniques acceptable to the FAA according to current standards.

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    This document discusses the qualifications required for personnel performing nondestructive testing (NDT) inspections. It notes that currently there is no national FAA policy on NDT qualifications. The FAA has provided guidance stating that NDT personnel should meet standards for vision/color testing, training, experience, and certification in specific test methods. Several national and international standards are identified as acceptable for assuring personnel qualifications, including standards from ASNT, ATA, AIA, Canada, Britain, and ISO. The document emphasizes that simply holding an A&P license does not qualify someone to perform NDT and that inspectors must use techniques acceptable to the FAA according to current standards.

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    This document discusses the qualifications required for personnel performing nondestructive testing (NDT) inspections. It notes that currently there is no national FAA policy on NDT qualifications. The FAA has provided guidance stating that NDT personnel should meet standards for vision/color testing, training, experience, and certification in specific test methods. Several national and international standards are identified as acceptable for assuring personnel qualifications, including standards from ASNT, ATA, AIA, Canada, Britain, and ISO. The document emphasizes that simply holding an A&P license does not qualify someone to perform NDT and that inspectors must use techniques acceptable to the FAA according to current standards.

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    A & P Mechanics Performing NDT Inspections

    by Cathy VanAssche and Nick Eull


    LGB FSDO Inspectors
    Questions have been raised on how to determine if qualified personnel are performing
    Nondestructive Testing (NDT). Currently there is no national FAA policy to determine if
    personnel performing NDT are qualified. Guidance has been developed by the Production and
    Airworthiness Certification Division and Aircraft Maintenance Division along with the Chief
    Scientific and Technical Advisor for Nondestructive Evaluation to assure that only qualified
    inspectors perform NDT. This guidance discusses the generic elements of the standards
    considered acceptable to the FAA.
    NDT personnel should receive documented vision and color blindness testing at reasonable
    intervals. NDT personnel can be categorized at different levels of competence (e.g. Trainee,
    Limited, Level 1, 2, 3) and should perform only at the level to which they have been qualified.
    Inspection personnel should receive documented initial and recurrent training in the standards,
    methods, and levels they utilize. NDT personnel should demonstrate documented proficiency,
    both in classroom knowledge and practical application of test methods. NDT personnel require
    experience in a test method to be considered qualified to perform that test method. A procedure
    needs to be in place to allow an organization to disqualify a NDT individual from performing
    inspections when the inspector doesnt meet current standards. Sufficient documentation must be
    available and retained to demonstrate that only qualified personnel are engaged in the NDT
    process.
    There are several current national and international standards acceptable to the FAA that may be
    used to assure that only qualified personnel perform NDT.
    NAS-410 (replaces MIL-STD-410E), National Aerospace Standard, Nondestructive Testing
    Personnel Qualification and Certification.
    ATA Specification 105, Air Transport Association, Guidelines for Training and Qualifying
    Personnel in Nondestructive Testing Methods.
    AIA-NAS-410, Aerospace Industries Association, National Aerospace Standard, NAS
    Certification & Qualification of Nondestructive Test Personnel.
    Canadian: Can/CGSB-48.9712-95, Qualification and Certification of Nondestructive Testing
    Personnel.
    British: PCN/GEN/92, General Requirements for the Certification of Personnel engaged in
    Nondestructive testing at levels 1, 2, and 3.
    EN 473, General Principles for Qualification and Certification of NDT Personnel.
    ISO 9712, Nondestructive Testing - Qualification and Certification of Personnel.
    As an A&P, you must use the methods, techniques and practices in accordance with current
    standards and technical data acceptable to the Administrator to perform NDT. Specific examples
    are: (1) Airworthiness Directive (AD) 87-22-01 which requires fluorescent liquid penetrant
    inspection of the landing gear on certain Beechcraft airplanes stresses that only qualified
    personnel perform the inspections to reduce the possibility of misinterpretation of indications. (2)
    AD 97-18-02 which requires dye penetrant inspection and eddy current inspection of Hartzell
    propeller blades states that personnel shall be qualified and certified based on the requirements of
    the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Inc. (ASNT), Recommended Practice No.
    SNT-TC-1A, NAS 410, ATA 105, or ISO 9712.

    ASNT Recommended Practice No. SNT-TC-1A, defines qualified as: "demonstrated skill,
    demonstrated knowledge, documented training, and documented experience required for
    personnel to properly perform the duties of a specific job" and certified is defined as: "written
    testimony of qualification."
    EDITORS NOTE: CAUTION - Being in possession of an A&P does not automatically qualify
    you to perform NDT. This article also applies to FAA Certified Repair Stations. The intent of this
    article is for you to research your technical data to ensure that you are using the methods,
    techniques and practices in accordance with current standards and technical data acceptable to
    the Administrator to perform NDT.

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