Description / Abstract:
This document is to be used as a checklist by curriculum
developers to create awareness training for critical composite
repair and maintenance issues. This document will not take place of
training requirements for specific job roles of a composite repair
technician or engineer.
Purpose
The purpose of this AIR is to establish a standard teaching
checklist for an awareness course covering the critical technical
issues associated with the maintenance and repair of composite
aircraft structures. This document describes terminal course
objectives (TCOs) and teaching points, which in combination serve
as a course checklist for organizations developing this awareness
course.
Field of Application
The course is intended to address critical composite structural
safety and certification issues as opposed to building specific
skills among individual team members. Specific skill-building is
outside the scope of this course and is not the intent of the
contents of this document.
Product Classification
The organization and structure of the teaching points presented
in this AIR is unique and is not considered part of the public
domain, and is subject to SAE copyright authority. The technical
information contained in the teaching points of this AIR is
regarded as common practice, and therefore is available in the
public domain. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) funded the
assembly of this information and the development of training course
details. It has published the technical information as part of a
more complete treatment of composite maintenance course material.
The FAA retains the right to grant permission to any outside party
to access and utilize the technical information assembled under the
government funded program and subsequent revisions. The FAA shall
retain the right to reproduce the technical information contained
in this AIR document for its use and to exercise all the rights
inherent with the information provided in this document without
restriction. The FAA will not distribute copies of this AIR
document to the public without prior approval from the SAE.
Form
TCOs, in addition to subordinate objectives which support the
TCOs, indicate student learning expectations for each section of
the course, while teaching points convey items that should be
covered within each TCO. TCOs are listed at the second numbering
sequence (e.g. 3.1) in this document. Teaching format is at the
discretion of the teaching institution, and those objectives and
teaching points which refer to laboratory learning environments are
suggestions in teaching format only (e.g. section 6.2.4). In
general, laboratory exercises are intended to reinforce objectives
and teaching points listed in other sections of this AIR.