This course is designed to provide the students with an understanding of aircraft ice and rain control systems and the maintenance requirements and practices of those systems. This course is also designed to provide students with an understanding of the design and maintenance of aircraft cabin environmental control 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 ice/rain control and environmental systems.
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 and explaining types of icing encountered by aircraft.
- Describing the operational characteristics of various anti-icing and de-icing systems employed by aircraft.
- Describing the different methods of rain removal employed by aircraft.
- Identifying components of different ice and rain control systems.
- Performing various maintenance and troubleshooting tasks associated with ice and rain control systems.
- Identifying and mitigating risks associated with maintaining ice and rain control systems.
- Identifying and explaining the functional characteristics of various cabin environmental systems, such as heating, air conditioning, and pressurization.
- Explaining sources of toxic gases and their effect on the occupants of an aircraft.
- Identifying and explaining different maintenance procedures associated with different air conditioning methods, such as vapor-cycle air conditioning.
- Inspecting and troubleshooting aircraft combustion heaters.
- Inspecting and maintaining gaseous oxygen systems.
- Inspecting and maintaining various components of pressurization systems.
- Identifying and mitigating risks associated with maintaining and repairing cabin environmental systems.