Apprenticeship training course
Survival equipment fitter (level 3)
Maintaining military aircraft and personal survival equipment.
- Qualification level
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3
Equivalent to A level. - Typical duration
- 36 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Engineering and manufacturing
- Maximum funding
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£27,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Military Equipment Fitter
- Military Survival Equipment Fitter
- Survival Equipment Fitter
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Safe selection and use of hand and mechanical tools and equipment while carrying out maintenance of survival equipment
- Use of ground support equipment, including gaseous cylinders and charging equipment
- Survival equipment functional checks and fault diagnosis
- Demonstrate their ability to identify and resolve problems using the appropriate processes and understand the limits of their authority/approval
- Reading, interpreting and understanding engineering data, drawings, specifications, maintenance manuals, computer generated information and aircraft documentation
- Carry out maintenance of survival equipment pyrotechnics
- Carry out maintenance of quick release fittings, inertia reels and restraining harnesses
- Carry out maintenance and repair of life rafts
- Carry out maintenance of covert emergency locator beacons
- Carry out maintenance of night vision goggles
- Carry out maintenance of parachutes
- Undertake deployed operations training
- Carry out maintenance of aircrew equipment assemblies and repairs
- Carry out maintenance of life preservers
Full information on Survival equipment fitter (level 3) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.