MEACOM0029 — Convert skills and knowledge from allied trades for employment in aviation maintenance workshops

Elements & performance criteria

Performance evidence

• convert allied trades skills and knowledge to aviation maintenance workshops on: at least one manual from each of: 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; and on at least three of the following: 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 or connecting a range of common aircraft connectors and plumbing, applying safety locking devices, where applicable; assembling or connecting aircraft control cables and applying safety locking devices, where applicable.
• access, interpret and apply information from industry manuals, including paper-based, microfiche or computer-based media, relating to work activities, including determination of amendment status of the manual, knowledge of manual structures and locating relevant information/instructions for work activity
• identify and interpret information from drawings and diagrams in aircraft maintenance manuals, including component scaling, section, assembly, location, drawing applicability or amendment status from the title block as required for the tasks being performed
• determine correct lubricants for specified applications
• identify common ferrous and non-ferrous aircraft materials and identify common aircraft composite and non-metallic materials (other than wood)
• identify aircraft hardware by markings, part numbers, size, shape and material
• install aircraft hardware using standard practices or techniques to ensure safe security and including each of following: minimum thread engagement, split pinning, lockwiring, application of locking compounds, locking tabs and spring washers, lock nuts
• install aircraft hardware using tightening, torquing and tensioning techniques
• identify various types of aircraft rigid and flexible plumbing and their connectors
• identify aircraft control cables and related cable system hardware
• apply workplace hazard reporting and identification procedures
• differentiate the elements that constitute the quality system and identify processes, workplace regulations and ISO 9000 compliant documentation and specifications within the workplace environment

Knowledge evidence

• the types and structures of industry manuals used in aviation maintenance and types of media, including paper-based, microfiche or computer-based media, and other relevant sources of information or instructions for work activity
• sources of regulatory and standard enterprise procedures, including: Civil Aviation Regulations (CARs) or Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASRs); maintenance organisation manual; procedures manuals; work instructions; quality manuals; safety manuals; applicable Australia Defence Force (ADF) regulations and instructions; standing instructions
• 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
• workplace maintenance procedural documentation specific to the tasks listed in the Performance Evidence, such as maintenance logs, overhaul test/check sheets, job history sheets, traveller cards, maintenance reports, irregularity reports, serviceable tags and removal tags.
• the relationship between the quality system and work health and safety (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
• considerations relating to 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
• how to access and apply material safety data sheets (MSDSs) and material record sheets.

Foundation skills

• Reading: to interpret maintenance manuals.
• Numeracy: to interpret technical information.

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