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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Identify and access aviation industry manuals, specifications and drawings
  2. Amend manuals, specifications or drawings
  3. Store manuals, specifications or drawings
  4. Apply standard trade practices
  5. Interpret and apply quality standards in the aviation maintenance environment
  6. Plan steps and organise work to complete task

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Appropriate manuals include:

Aircraft publications, maintenance instruction manuals, process specifications, servicing or service bulletins or structural repair manuals

Tooling or equipment manuals, manufacturer's manuals, standard practices, enterprise aviation regulations and publications

Illustrated parts catalogues, aircraft wiring manuals or drawings

Application of standard aviation trade practices includes:

The selection and use of hand and power tools and equipment associated with workshop-related activities in the aircraft maintenance environment that involve:

laying out and fabricating simple items from common aircraft materials

assembling items using a representative range of common types of aircraft attachment hardware for which relevant fits and clearances, appropriate safety locking devices and fasteners, including lockwire, are correctly selected and applied

assembling/connecting a range of common aircraft connectors and plumbing, applying safety locking devices, where applicable

assembling/connecting aircraft control cables and applying safety locking devices, where applicable

Regulatory and enterprise procedures are found in:

Civil Aviation Regulations (CARs) or Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASRs)

Maintenance organisation manual

Procedures manuals

Work instructions

Quality manuals

Safety manuals

Applicable Defence Regulations and instructions

Standing instructions

Human factors include:

The factors relating to human behaviour and performance in aviation maintenance environments that are defined by either CASA or the ADF

Documentation includes:

Maintenance logs, overhaul test/check sheets, job history sheets, traveller cards, maintenance reports, irregularity reports, serviceable tags or removal tags

MSDS or material record sheets

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria under the specified conditions of assessment, and must include:

accessing, interpreting and applying information from industry manuals, including paper-based, microfiche or computer-based media, relating to work activities, including determination of manual amendment status, knowledge of manual structures and locating relevant information/instructions for work activity

amending industry manuals to reflect current/approved amendment status

identifying and interpreting information from drawings and diagrams in aircraft maintenance manuals, including component scaling, section, assembly, location, drawing applicability and amendment status from the title block

correct handling and storage of drawings, manuals and industry media, i.e. microfiche and digital formats

determining correct lubricants for specified applications

identifying common ferrous and non-ferrous aircraft materials

identifying common aircraft composite and non-metallic materials (other than wood)

identifying aircraft hardware by markings, part numbers, size, shape and material

installing aircraft hardware using standard practices/techniques to ensure safe security and includes:

minimum thread engagement

split pinning

lockwiring

application of locking compounds

locking tabs and spring washers

lock nuts

installing aircraft hardware using tightening, torquing and tensioning techniques

identifying various types of aircraft rigid and flexible plumbing and their connectors

identifying aircraft control cables and related cable system hardware

applying workplace hazard reporting and identification procedures

being able to differentiate the elements which constitute the quality system and the ability to identify processes, workplace regulations and ISO 9000 compliant documentation and specifications within the workplace environment

interpreting information relating to the work activity from a range of industry manuals, industry and enterprise regulations and industry documentation

considering WHS regulations/precautions specific to the work activity and others working in the vicinity of the planned work activity, particularly with regard to electricity, gases (especially oxygen), oils and chemicals

using MSDS

applying human factors in planning maintenance activities.

Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

the types of industry manuals used in aviation maintenance and types of media

requirements for custody and upkeep of industry manuals

techniques for obtaining and applying data contained in industry manuals

types of standard aircraft hardware and methods of identification, including bolts, nuts, washers, pins (cotter and tapered), and fasteners (rivets and camlocs)

materials from which hardware is manufactured and its applications, including plain, corrosion resistant and temperature/heat resistant

types of safety locking devices and their application

common ferrous and non-ferrous aircraft materials, heat treatment and testing

characteristics and properties of common composite and non-metallic materials (other than wood)

types of aircraft cable, turnbuckles, end fittings, tensiometers, pulleys and cable system components, and aircraft flexible control systems

types and characteristics of lubricants

typical quality systems and their operation in the workplace

workplace quality documentation, such as quality manuals, procedures manuals, work instructions and worksheets

the relationship between the quality system and WHS requirements, such as workplace hazard reporting

the relationship between the quality system and identification systems for aircraft hardware, materials and components

the impact of human factors on the safe and effective performance of maintenance on aircraft and aircraft components

MSDS.