The course is designed to provide participants with essential knowledge of the legal requirements for certification of both initial and continuing airworthiness, in the context of international standards and Hong Kong regulations. It also offers a historical review of the evolution of maintenance programmes and detailed explanations of the Maintenance Steering Group (MSG‑3) processes and techniques, as well as all mandatory maintenance requirements linked to aircraft design requirements — such as System Safety Assessment (SSA), Airworthiness Limitations Items (ALI), Certification Maintenance Requirements (CMR), and Critical Design Configuration Control Limitations (CDCCL). This knowledge will enable participants to effectively develop and manage their maintenance programmes.
As the reliability programme is a mandatory component of any maintenance programme developed using the MSG‑3 methodology — both to assess the effectiveness of the current programme and to support programme changes or optimisation — the course also provides detailed guidance on the key processes involved in establishing reliability programmes. Potential challenges associated with managing, analysing, and interpreting reliability data will also be discussed.