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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Inspect for damage to aircraft cabin/cockpit non-primary structure metallic and non-metallic components
  2. Prepare to perform routine repairs and minor modifications to aircraft cabin/cockpit non-primary structure metallic and non-metallic components
  3. Perform routine repairs and minor modifications to aircraft cabin/cockpit non-primary structure metallic components
  4. Perform routine repairs and minor modifications to aircraft cabin/cockpit non-primary structure non-metallic components
  5. Complete routine repair and minor modification activities

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.

Metallic and non-metallic components include:

Aircraft crew and passenger seats

Interior trim panels, including sidewalls, galleys, furnishings and partitions, passenger modules/pods, toilets, roof panels, overhead luggage stowage bins, non-structural floor panels and cargo compartment lining

Types of damage include:

Corrosion, cracking and impact damage to metallic components

Delamination, cracking and impact damage to non-metallic components

Metallic component repairs include:

Removing corrosion by chemical and mechanical methods

Restoring protective coatings

Freehand precision hole generation

Removing and installing fastening devices

Fitting patches to cabin/cockpit non-primary structure sheet metal components

Non-metallic component repairs include:

Composite patch, scarf and stepped repairs using fibreglass, sandwich honeycomb, nylon, Perspex, nomex core materials and matrix resins

Primary structure includes:

All components of an aircraft, the failure of which would seriously endanger safety. In the fuselage this includes frames, longerons and stringers, structural floor panels and all additional parts of the pressure hull, such as skin, windows, doors and bulkheads

Procedures and requirements include:

Industry standard procedures specified by manufacturers, regulatory authorities or the enterprise

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:

applying relevant WHS practices, including the use of MSDS and the selection and use of applicable items of PPE

using enterprise procedures, approved maintenance documentation and aircraft publications relating to cabin/cockpit non-primary structure metallic and non-metallic components

identifying aircraft cabin/cockpit non-primary structure components and their basic properties by interpretation of markings, numbering systems or visual, chemical or mechanical means

handling and storing aircraft metallic and non-metallic components, including sealing agents, to industry standards

identifying aircraft assembly fasteners by interpretation of markings, numbering systems, size, shape and colour

visually inspecting metallic and non-metallic components for damage

correctly interpreting, in accordance with enterprise procedures, applicable repair scheme/modification drawings and hand sketches

using appropriate hand tools and machines to remove and assemble aircraft cabin/cockpit non-primary structure metallic and non-metallic components

performing, in accordance with enterprise procedures, a range of routine non-primary structure sheet metal repair techniques, including metal scab patch repairs

performing, in accordance with enterprise procedures, a range of routine non-primary structure non-metallic repair techniques

applying corrosion removal/treatment techniques

restoring sealing and surface finishes.

The underlying skills inherent in this unit should be transferable into other areas that require similar techniques. It is essential that procedures take into account all safety precautions and quality requirements, standards and practices, and processes associated with assembly.

Evidence of knowledge about enterprise procedures relating to routine basic repair techniques and the use of the standard repair manual/practices in a range of situations will be necessary to supplement evidence of ability to plan and undertake component repair.

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:

applicable WHS procedures, including how to obtain MSDS

selection and use of applicable items of PPE

construction methods used and assessment of common defects in aircraft crew and passenger seats, and in interior trim panels including sidewalls, galleys, furnishings and partitions, passenger modules/pods, toilets, roof panels, overhead luggage stowage bins, non-structural floor panels and cargo compartment lining

types of deterioration and damage

inspection methods

identification and interpretation of metallic and non-metallic repair schemes applicable to cabin/cockpit non-primary structural components

the various forms of corrosion

the terms associated with composite materials

requirements for handling and storing aircraft metals and composite materials including sealing agents, to industry standards

means of identifying aircraft structural assembly fasteners (metal and composite) by interpretation of markings, numbering systems, size, shape and colour.