This course is designed to provide the students with an understanding of metallic aircraft structures, flight control surfaces, and flight control systems. This course is also designed to provide the students with an understanding of the inspection, repair, and maintenance practices of those structures, surfaces, and systems.
Prerequisites
Prior to enrolling in any Airframe courses, students must be complete with (or on track to complete) the General curriculum of Big Bend Community College Aviation Maintenance Technology, or otherwise complete with the requirements necessary to take the FAA written, oral, and practical exams for General as verified by the instructors of BBCC AMT.
This course is designed to teach and prepare students for the FAA Airframe Mechanic written, oral, and practical exams, specifically those parts of the exams that pertain to aircraft flight controls and metallic aircraft structures.
Program Outcome PO4 Applies to this course: Students will be able to identify and explain FAA rules/regulations, as well as describe, identify components of, troubleshoot, and repair a variety of airframe and powerplant systems.
IO1, Communication: Students will be able to communicate clearly and effectively within a workplace context.
IO2, Quantitative Reasoning: Students will be able to reason mathematically using methods appropriate to the profession.
IO3, Human Relations/ Workplace Skills: Students will be able to demonstrate teamwork, ethics, appropriate safety awareness and/or workplace specific skills.
During this course, the students will receive training in areas pertaining to flight controls and metallic structures using various methods of instruction, such as classroom lectures and lab projects. Knowledge items and skills taught in this course include, but is not limited to:
- Identifying primary flight control surfaces and the axis of the aircraft each one controls.
- Identifying secondary flight control surfaces and their uses.
- Identifying other aerodynamic features of aircraft and their purposes.
- Explaining various means for inputting control movements to the flight control surfaces.
- Explaining and performing common inspections of flight control systems, to include the use and care of common tooling.
- Explaining and performing the rigging of aircraft flight controls.
- Explaining different stresses applied to aircraft structures.
- Identifying different flaws/defects in metallic structures.
- Explaining and performing sheet metal forming practices.
- Performing repairs to metallic structures or surfaces, to include the installation of various fasteners.
- Interpreting various sources of approved/acceptable data to perform different repairs.
- Identify and mitigate risks associated with aircraft structural repair.