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AME REGS Exam Study Guide: What to Study, Part by Part

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The Canadian Aviation Regulations run to ten Parts and thousands of sections. You don't need to memorize them. You need to know which Parts the REGS exam draws on, what's in each one, and where to find a rule when a question asks. This guide goes through them in order.

The big picture: the exam draws on CARs Parts I, II, IV, V, VI and VII. The AME CARs Crash Course covers all ten Parts and tells you where to focus.

Transport Canada's topic list is in TP 14038, the Study and Reference Guide. It splits REGS topics into the CARs and the Standards. Study them together: a CAR tells you what must be done, and the matching Standard usually tells you how.

How the numbering works (learn this first)

  • The first digit of a section number is the Part: 101.01 is in Part I, 571.10 is in Part V.

  • The first three digits are the Subpart: 571 is Part V, Subpart 71.

  • Standards use the same numbers as the CAR they support, so Standard 571 goes with CAR Subpart 571.

Once that clicks, a "where is this rule?" question becomes "which Part covers this subject?", and that's a question you can reason through.

Part I: General Provisions

Focus: high. This is where the definitions live (101.01). A surprising number of questions turn on a defined term: what counts as a "large aeroplane," what "maintenance" includes, what an "aeronautical product" is. Part I also covers administration and compliance. How to study it: make a short list of the definitions that keep showing up in Parts V to VII and learn them word for word.

Part II: Aircraft Identification and Registration

Focus: medium. Nationality and registration marks, registration, and identification of aircraft and engines. TP 14038 lists aircraft registration and identification as REGS topics. How to study it: know who must be told about what change, and the basic rules for marks and identification plates.

Part III: Aerodromes, Airports and Heliports

Focus: low (map only). Not one of the REGS exam Parts. Know what it covers so you don't go looking for maintenance rules there.

Part IV: Personnel Licensing and Training

Focus: medium. AME licences and ratings, privileges, and keeping a licence current. The detailed requirements are in Standard 566. How to study it: know the ratings (M1, M2, E, S, Balloon), the privileges, and the recency requirements. See AME licence requirements in Canada.

Part V: Airworthiness

Focus: highest. This is the heart of the exam for an AME: flight authorities and flight permits, modifications and repairs, maintenance and elementary work (571), approved maintenance organizations (573), service difficulty reporting, airworthiness directives, and the Standards that support them. How to study it: split it over two or three sessions. Maintenance release, who can sign for what, defects and parts are reliable exam topics.

Part VI: General Operating and Flight Rules

Focus: high. For maintenance, the key area is aircraft requirements (605): maintenance release requirements, maintenance schedules, technical records, journey logs, and equipment and defect rules such as the MEL. How to study it: tie each record to who keeps it, what goes in it and how long it's kept.

Part VII: Commercial Air Services

Focus: high. Maintenance requirements for air operators: the maintenance control system, the person responsible for maintenance (PRM), and the operator's maintenance control manual. How to study it: compare how Part VII builds on Part VI. Questions often test what changes when an aircraft is operated commercially.

Parts VIII, IX and X

Focus: low (map only). Air Navigation Services, Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Aviation. Know they exist and what they cover.

The Standards topics on TP 14038's list

Aircraft registration, airworthiness directives, AME licensing, AMOs, borrowed parts, defects, definitions, elementary work, flight permits and flight authorities, inspection, life-limited parts, maintenance control systems, maintenance release, maintenance schedules, modification and repair, parts identification, performance of work, the PRM, restricted certification authority, technical records, type certificates and STCs, used parts, and weight and balance.

Tick these off as you cover them. If one's still blank in your last week, that's your weak-area day.

A two-week order that works

  1. Part I + definitions

  2. Part II

  3. Parts III, VIII, IX, X (map only)

  4. Part IV 5-6. Part V

  5. Practice exam 1, timed

  6. Part VI

  7. Part VII

  8. Practice exam 2 + reread the Parts you missed most

  9. Weak-area day: Parts IV and V 12-14. Practice exams 3, 4 and 5

That's the free 14-Day REGS Pass Plan, on one printable page. Get it on the homepage.

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Sources

  • TP 14038: https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/publications/study-reference-guide-aircraft-maintenance-engineer-technical-examinations-tp-14038

  • Canadian Aviation Regulations (Justice Laws): https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-96-433/

 
 
 

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