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Career Details :: Aviation Inspectors
Description
Inspect aircraft, maintenance procedures, air navigational aids, air traffic controls, and communications equipment to ensure conformance with federal safety regulations.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Conducts flight test program to test equipment, instruments, and systems under various conditions, including adverse weather, using both manual and automatic controls.
- Examines access plates and doors for security.
- Starts aircraft and observes gauges, meters, and other instruments to detect evidence of malfunction.
- Analyzes training program and conducts examinations to assure competency of persons operating, installing, and repairing equipment.
- Schedules and coordinates in-flight testing program with ground crews and air traffic control to assure ground tracking, equipment monitoring, and related services.
- Examines maintenance record and flight log to determine if service and maintenance checks and overhauls were performed at prescribed intervals.
- Inspects aircraft and components to identify damage or defects and to determine structural and mechanical airworthiness, using hand tools and test instruments.
- Approves or disapproves issuance of certificate of airworthiness.
- Investigates air accidents to determine cause.
- Prepares reports to document flight activities and inspection findings.
- Recommends purchase, repair, or modification of equipment.
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- Service Unit Operators, Oil, Gas, and Mining
- Welder-Fitters
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Updating & Using Job-Relevant Knowledge
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Responsible for Others' Health & Safety
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Frustrating Circumstances
Related Majors
| Major | Add to XapPack |
|---|---|
| Accounting Specialist |  [ add ] |
| Aeronautical Science | [ add ] |
| Aeronautical Science/Professional Pilot | [ add ] |
| Aeronautical Technology | [ add ] |
| Aeronautics | [ add ] |
| Aeronautics/Applied Mathematics | [ add ] |
| Aeronautics/Astronautics | [ add ] |
| Aeronautics/Management | [ add ] |
| Aerospace Maintenance Engineering Technology | [ add ] |
| Aircraft System Management | [ add ] |
| Airway Systems Management | [ add ] |
| Aviation Electronic Systems | [ add ] |
| Aviation Maintenance | [ add ] |
| Aviation Maintenance Management | [ add ] |
| Aviation Maintenance Technology | [ add ] |
| Aviation Technology | [ add ] |
| Avionics Maintenance Management | [ add ] |
| Avionics Maintenance Technology | [ add ] |
| Business/Retail Business Management | [ add ] |
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