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DASR MAML Training

RPL and gap training for Defence engineers

Whether you’re seeking a Military Aircraft Maintenance Licence, removing MAML exclusions, or planning a transition into civilian licensing – we’ve a system built for experienced engineers. Structured around the actual DASR 66 requirement, not generic study.

MAML pathways without the runaround

If you already work in Defence aviation, the question usually is not whether you can do the job. The question is how to turn training, authorisations and aircraft experience into the right licensing outcome.

Get your MAML

We help experienced Defence engineers work toward an initial DASR 66 Military Aircraft Maintenance Licence through a structured RPL and gap training process.

Remove exclusions

If your licence scope is limited by exclusions, we map the exact gap and build the shortest compliant path to remove it.

Use RPL properly

Your service training, aircraft experience and existing evidence should count. We make sure it does.

Train only where needed

We do not push experienced engineers through broad study they do not need.

Plan for civil later

If your long-term goal is civilian licensing, we can help you build that into the pathway early.

How the MAML works

A MAML is built from qualifications, knowledge, experience and military legislation training.

Under DASR 66, the Military Aircraft Maintenance Licence sits across Category A, B1, B2 and C. For Category A and B applicants, DASA says the pathway is based on the right qualifications, basic knowledge, basic experience, and completion of DASR Module 10 Aviation Legislation.

The current DASA guidance also ties MAML issue to the MEA Aeroskills training package and lists core MEA units that sit underneath all licence issue. In plain language, that means the licence is not just “a course” and it is not just “an exam”. It is the combination of what you have learned, what you have done, and what you can prove.

That is why Sigma starts with mapping. Before we talk about training, we work out what you already hold, what category you are targeting, and what the real gaps are.

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Built around RPL and gap training

For experienced Defence engineers, not entry-level students

All Sigma DASR MAML pathways on this page are delivered through RPL and gap training. That means we start with your service training, civilian qualifications, on-aircraft experience, authorisations and supporting evidence. Then we build a targeted path to the outcome.

Where you are already competent, we recognise it. Where there is a real gap, we set the exact training, assessment or evidence task needed to close it. No padding. No generic detours.

This matters because DASA requires licence assessments to come through approved or recognised DASA 147 or CASA Part 147 organisations. Provider choice is not just an admin detail. It affects whether the work you do will count.

Fast to map. Tight on scope. Serious on evidence.

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MAML exclusion removal

Remove the restriction, not your whole week

Not every Defence trade path lines up cleanly to full DASR 66 licence scope. DASA’s own FAQ says gaps in trade skill sets are managed by licence exclusions. That is why exclusion removal needs a proper system-by-system pathway.

Sigma delivers structured exclusion removal training for DASR 66 engineers through RPL and gap training. We map the exclusion code, the associated MEA unit requirements, and the knowledge standard behind it. Then we set only the missing work.

That is the point of our model. Experienced engineers should not have to sit through broad training just to clear one targeted restriction.

Only the gap. Only the evidence. Only the training that matters.

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Moving from Defence to civilian licensing

The MAML and the CASA Part 66 licence are not the same thing. Plan the civil move early.

DASA’s current FAQ says the DASR 66 MAML is not mutually recognised with the CASA Part 66 licence. That does not mean the move into civil is blocked. It means the transition needs to be mapped properly.

CASA has a specific ADF qualifications application pathway for an initial, additional or modular Part 66 licence. CASA’s current Form 542 says the applicant’s ADF qualifications must first be assessed by a CASA-approved Part 147 MTO, with Form 465 or the CASA document of record submitted as part of the application.

That is where Sigma can help. If your longer-term goal is airline, MRO or general aviation work, we can help map your Defence training and experience into the right civilian pathway instead of leaving it until discharge.

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Why engineers use Sigma for DASR pathways

Because the process needs to move, and it needs to be technically right.

Defence engineers usually come to Sigma for the same reason civil engineers do. They want a straight answer, a quick start and a pathway that respects the experience they already have.

Our model is built for that. We use RPL properly. We build only the real gaps. We keep the training aligned to the licence outcome. And we keep engineers supported through the process instead of leaving them stuck in admin.

Just as important, the standard stays high. We are not interested in loose shortcuts that do not hold up later. The job is to get the licensing outcome right.

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Need your MAML, an exclusion removed, or a pathway into civil?

Send us your target category, current qualifications or authorisations, and any exclusions already on the licence. We will tell you the shortest compliant path.

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