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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Investigate scope of engineering task
  2. Evaluate task for avionic fundamentals requirements
  3. Integrate avionic fundamentals
  4. Report results

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 technical and professional assistance includes:

Assistance from holders of specific licenses and authorisations required by the relevant airworthiness regulator, CASA or the ADF

Technical support and advice relating to elements which have intrinsic dangers, for example:

high pressure

energised fluid vessels

high temperatures and heat energy capacity

wiring with high current control voltages above extra low voltage

Professional support for technologies, such as:

specialist electric motor drives and controllers

specialist materials, plastics, metal alloys and nano materials

Special processes, foundry, alloy welding, heat treatment, sealing and fastening

WHS, regulatory requirements and enterprise procedures include:

WHS Acts and regulations

Relevant standards

Industry codes of practice

Risk assessments

Registration requirements

Safe work practices

State and territory regulatory requirements applying to electrical work

Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASRs)

AAP7001 .053 ADF Technical Airworthiness Management Manual

Overseas airworthiness authorities where applicable e.g. Federal Aviation Administration, Transport Canada, European Aviation Safety Agency

Systems thinking includes:

The process of developing solutions within the context of an entire system

Recognising that an improvement in one subsystem can adversely affect another subsystem

Continuous improvement implementation

Continuous improvement implementation relates to plant, products, processes, systems or services including design, development, implementation or manufacture, commissioning, operation or delivery and maintenance. Continuous improvement is part of CM and ILS

Improvement processes, including:

balanced scorecard

current and future state mapping

measuring performance against benchmarks

process improvement, problem solving and decision making

data management, generation, recording, analysing, storing and using of software

training for improvement systems participation

technical training

Constraints and contingencies include:

Financial

Organisation procedural or culture

Physical constraints, such as limits to resources, limits to site access or logistical limitations

Airworthiness regulatory requirements

Configuration management (CM)

CM is a process for control and documentation of the design and development process and for the management of system, component and software throughout the service life

Integrated logistic support (ILS)

ILS is an integrated approach to the management of logistic disciplines originally developed for the management of military systems from design concept to final disposal at life-of-type. It covers:

reliability engineering, maintainability engineering and maintenance planning

supply and support

support and test equipment

manpower and personnel

training and training support

technical data and publications

computer resources support

facilities

packaging, handling, storage and transportation

design interface


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:

communicating, cooperating and negotiating with stakeholders to achieve integration task

determining task parameters and context, chain of responsibility, WHS, regulatory requirements, risk management and organisational procedures

confirming personal, team and support personnel tasks and responsibilities

evaluating task requirements, principles, techniques, avionic components and systems, including software requirements, and software for basic analysis and graphics

planning the task

integrating avionic fundamentals to achieve task objectives

solve problems and making decisions using systems thinking and continuous improvement to address contingencies and constraints and application of CM and/or ILS procedures

reporting and documenting results of investigation, evaluation and integration, diagrams and calculations.


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:

WHS and organisational safe working procedures

task parameters and broader context

personal function and responsibilities

chain of responsibility for the activity

team interdependencies

avionic fundamentals, including:

mathematics

materials properties

mechanics

chemistry

light, sound and electromagnetic effects, including avoidance of electro-magnetic interference

thermodynamics and heating, aircraft air conditioning and cabin pressurisation

fluid mechanics

fluid power

electrical and electronic fundamentals

fundamentals of system interfacing and signal conditioning

computing

graphics, including computer aided design and drafting (CAD) systems

typical workshop processes

methods and processes, including:

basic electrical and electronic control circuit assembly, including production of printed circuit boards

wiring and soldering, including high reliability hand soldering

simple programming

simple interfacing and signal conditioning

machining, such as turning, milling, broaching, boring, shaping, planning, drilling, reaming, sawing, grinding and threading

hot and cold working processes

press operations, such as drawing, punching, cropping and forging

fabrication and welding of metals and plastics

powder metallurgy

heat treatment

moulding, casting and forging

assembly, sealing, fastening and gluing

jigs and fixtures

surface plating and coating

computer-aided engineering (CAE) processes, such as CAD/computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)/computer-numerically controlled (CNC)/rapid processes

functions and features of avionic components and systems, including:

electrical systems and related wiring and components (power generation, distribution, circuit protection, control interfaces with hydraulic and pneumatic systems, and caution and warning systems)

mechanical and electro-mechanical flight instruments (pitot/static, barometric and gyroscopic) and indication systems (quantity, pressure, temperature and position)

electronic systems and components (communications, radio navigation, pulse, display, automatic flight control, flight management and engine management)

air conditioning and cabin pressurisation control systems

automatic test stations, adapters and software

integration of avionic fundamentals required for task

communication requirements of task

current options and tends in software, including circuit and system layout and simulation

integration management methods.