This 2-day course provides essential ELA knowledge and skills to ensure participants understand the mathematics, regulations and process behind ELA management. This unique course is intended for aircraft technical support staff and individuals involved with aircraft modifications, repairs and airworthiness compliance. The course aims to explain ELA terminology, aircraft electrical basics, and ELA associated regulations. ELA spreadsheets are analysed and updated. Incident case studies and practical examples are studied.
This course is designed to provide essential ELA knowledge and skills to ensure participants understand the mathematics, regulations and process behind ELA management. This unique course is intended for aircraft technical support staff and individuals involved with air-craft modifications, repairs and airworthiness compliance. The course aims to explain ELA terminology, aircraft electrical basics, and ELA associated regulations
Duration: 2 days
Study Mode: In-Person
Suitable for: Engineers
The learning activities are face-to-face lectures with embedded quizzes
and class discussion.
An ELA will be analysed and updated in an interactive practical session.
Assessment consists of a short quiz following each learning module.
The course is arranged as a series of 4 modules over 2 days as follows:
1) ELA introduction and electrical basics, ELA purpose and construction. Airworthiness regulations.
2) Aircraft systems and aircraft electrical buss design.
3) ELA practical exercises. ELA control and update process.
4) Critical electrical issues, power isolation, AD’s and case studies
John Taylor
Principal Avionics Engineer
John has over 35 years experience in aircraft modification, systems engineering, certification and support, including as a design signatory for military and civil aircraft work (EASA CS 25 / CAR 35 / CASR 21J / RAAF TAMM / DASR 21J and similar). This has included work on modifications for various FAA and EASA STCs, and certification of aircraft modifications, both military and civil. John’s professional areas of interest include avionics design, certification, systems safety, systems engineering, and aspects of verification and validation including ground and flight test. Project Management, Requirements Management, and Systems Engineering skills have been expanded through 30 years of practical use in aerospace industry projects.
“Good coverage of the topic, lots of practical examples and well taught”
“Well presented and instructor was highly engaging and flexible”
“Really liked the real-world practical examples provided.”