Apprenticeship training course

Survival equipment fitter (level 3)

Maintaining military aircraft and personal survival equipment.

• Qualification level: 3 ; Equivalent to A level.
• Typical duration: 36 months
• Apprenticeship category: Engineering and manufacturing
• Maximum funding: £27,000 ; Maximum amount government will fund ; for apprenticeship training.
• Also known as:
  • Military Equipment Fitter
  • Military Survival Equipment Fitter
  • Survival Equipment Fitter
• Skills:
  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.

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