Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
PUAFIR312B Mapping and Delivery Guide
Operate aerial ignition equipment in an aircraft
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | PUAFIR312B - Operate aerial ignition equipment in an aircraft |
---|---|---|---|
Description | This unit covers the competency required to prepare, operate and maintain aerial ignition equipment in an aircraft. Aerial ignition equipment is used to drop incendiaries (capsules or gelled petroleum) from fixed-wing aircraft or by helicopter.Aerial ignition operations are undertaken to reduce, modify or reduce fuel loads in key areas to reduce fire intensity and suppression difficulty at wildfire or prescribed burn. Aviation operations occur in a heavily regulated environment. Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements are applicable to this unit. | ||
Employability Skills | This unit contains employability skills. | ||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit applies to personnel responsible for the safe, effective and efficient conduct of aerial ignition operations to a specified burn prescription, fire suppression operations and for liaising with ground and support crews, such as incendiary operations supervisors. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. |
||
Prerequisites/co-requisites | PUAFIR209B Work safely around aircraft | ||
Competency Field |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
Slides PPT |
Assessment 1 | Assessment 2 | Assessment 3 | Assessment 4 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Prepare for operations of ignition equipment |
| |||||||
Element: Conduct aerial ignition operations |
| |||||||
Element: Service, maintain and store incendiary equipment |
|