Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 2
Pearson Edexcel Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Aeronautical Engineering (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits47
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification33
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Assembling Aircraft Airframe Ancillary ComponentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Assemble Aircraft Airframe Ancillary Components
- 1b. Assemble Aircraft Airframe Ancillary Components (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Assemble Aircraft Airframe Ancillary Components
- 2b. Know how to Assemble Aircraft Airframe Ancillary Components (continued)
Assembling Aircraft Composite ComponentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Assemble Aircraft Composite Components
- 1b. Assemble Aircraft Composite Components (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Assemble Aircraft Composite Components
- 2b. Know how to Assemble Aircraft Composite Components (continued)
Assembling Aircraft Electrical ComponentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Assemble Aircraft Electrical Components
- 1b. Assemble Aircraft Electrical Components (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Assemble Aircraft Electrical Components
- 2b. Know how to Assemble Aircraft Electrical Components (continued)
Carry Out Maintenance on Aircraft Mechanical Systems by Component ReplacementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry Out Maintenance on Aircraft Mechanical Systems by Component Replacement
- 1b. Carry Out Maintenance on Aircraft Mechanical Systems by Component Replacement (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Carry Out Maintenance on Aircraft Mechanical Systems by Component Replacement
- 2b. Know how to Carry Out Maintenance on Aircraft Mechanical Systems by Component Replacement (continued)
Carrying Out Aircraft Handling OperationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry Out Aircraft Handling Operations
- 1b. Carry Out Aircraft Handling Operations (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Carry Out Aircraft Handling Operations
- 2b. Know how to Carry Out Aircraft Handling Operations (continued)
Carrying Out Aircraft Routine ServicingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry Out Aircraft Routine Servicing
- 1b. Carry Out Aircraft Routine Servicing (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Carry Out Aircraft Routine Servicing
- 2b. Know how to Carry Out Aircraft Routine Servicing (continued)
Carrying Out Bonding Operations on Aircraft Composite ComponentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry Out Bonding Operations on Aircraft Composite Components
- 1b. Carry Out Bonding Operations on Aircraft Composite Components (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Carry Out Bonding Operations on Aircraft Composite Components
- 2b. Know how to Carry Out Bonding Operations on Aircraft Composite Components (continued)
Carrying Out Maintenance on Aircraft Electrical/Electronic Systems by Component ReplacementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry Out Maintenance on Aircraft Electrical/Electronic Systems by Component Replacement
- 1b. Carry Out Maintenance on Aircraft Electrical/Electronic Systems by Component Replacement (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Carry Out Maintenance on Aircraft Electrical/Electronic Systems by Component Replacement
- 2b. Know how to Carry Out Maintenance on Aircraft Electrical/Electronic Systems by Component Replacement (continued)
Carrying Out Repairs to Aircraft Composite MouldingsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry Out Repairs to Aircraft Composite Mouldings
- 1b. Carry Out Repairs to Aircraft Composite Mouldings (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Carry Out Repairs to Aircraft Composite Mouldings
- 2b. Know how to Carry Out Repairs to Aircraft Composite Mouldings (continued)
Carrying Out Trimming Operations on Aircraft Composite ComponentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Carry Out Trimming Operations on Aircraft Composite Components
- 1b. Carry Out Trimming Operations on Aircraft Composite Components (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Carry Out Trimming Operations on Aircraft Composite Components
- 2b. Know how to Carry Out Trimming Operations on Aircraft Composite Components (continued)
Checking Aircraft Composite Mouldings for DefectsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Check Aircraft Composite Mouldings for Defects
- 1b. Check Aircraft Composite Mouldings for Defects (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Check Aircraft Composite Mouldings for Defects
- 2b. Know how to Check Aircraft Composite Mouldings for Defects (continued)
Complying with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirementsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Comply with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements
- Comply with statutory regulations and organisational safety requirements
Dismantling and Removing Aircraft Access StructuresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Dismantle and Removing Aircraft Access Structures
- 1b. Dismantle and Removing Aircraft Access Structures (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Dismantle and Removing Aircraft Access Structures
- 2b. Know how to Dismantle and Removing Aircraft Access Structures (continued)
Drilling and Finishing Holes in Aircraft ComponentsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Drill and Finish Holes in Aircraft Components
- 1b. Drill and Finish Holes in Aircraft Components (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Drill and Finish Holes in Aircraft Components
- 2b. Know how to Drill and Finish Holes in Aircraft Components (continued)
Installing Aircraft Mechanical FastenersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Install Aircraft Mechanical Fasteners
- 1b. Install Aircraft Mechanical Fasteners (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Install Aircraft Mechanical Fasteners
- 2b. Know how to Install Aircraft Mechanical Fasteners (continued)
Making Modifications to Aircraft Cableforms and LoomsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Make Modifications to Aircraft Cableforms and Looms
- 1b. Make Modifications to Aircraft Cableforms and Looms (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Make Modifications to Aircraft Cableforms and Looms
- 2b. Know how to Make Modifications to Aircraft Cableforms and Looms (continued)
Moving Materials and Components in an Aircraft EnvironmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Move Materials and Components in an Aircraft Environment
- 1b. Move Materials and Components in an Aircraft Environment (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Move Materials and Components in an Aircraft Environment
- 2b. Know how to Move Materials and Components in an Aircraft Environment (continued)
Positioning and Securing Aircraft Access StructuresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Position and Securing Aircraft Access Structures
- 1b. Position and Securing Aircraft Access Structures (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Position and Securing Aircraft Access Structures
- 2b. Know how to Position and Securing Aircraft Access Structures (continued)
Producing Aircraft Cableforms and LoomsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce Aircraft Cableforms and Looms
- 1b. Produce Aircraft Cableforms and Looms (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Produce Aircraft Cableforms and Looms
- 2b. Know how to Produce Aircraft Cableforms and Looms (continued)
Producing Aircraft Components by Acrylic MouldingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce Aircraft Components by Acrylic Moulding
- 1b. Produce Aircraft Components by Acrylic Moulding (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Produce Aircraft Components by Acrylic Moulding
- 2b. Know how to Produce Aircraft Components by Acrylic Moulding (continued)
Producing Aircraft Components by Injection MouldingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce Aircraft Components by Injection Moulding
- 1b. Produce Aircraft Components by Injection Moulding (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Produce Aircraft Components by Injection Moulding
- 2b. Know how to Produce Aircraft Components by Injection Moulding (continued)
Producing Aircraft Components by Vacuum FormingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce Aircraft Components by Vacuum Forming
- 1b. Produce Aircraft Components by Vacuum Forming (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Produce Aircraft Components by Vacuum Forming
- 2b. Know how to Produce Aircraft Components by Vacuum Forming (continued)
Producing Aircraft Components using Pre-Preg Laminating TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce Aircraft Components using Pre-Preg Laminating Techniques
- 1b. Produce Aircraft Components using Pre-Preg Laminating Techniques (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Produce Aircraft Components using Pre-Preg Laminating Techniques
- 2b. Know how to Produce Aircraft Components using Pre-Preg Laminating Techniques (continued)
Producing Aircraft Components using Resin Infusion TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce Aircraft Components using Resin Infusion Techniques
- 1b. Produce Aircraft Components using Resin Infusion Techniques (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Produce Aircraft Components using Resin Infusion Techniques
- 2b. Know how to Produce Aircraft Components using Resin Infusion Techniques (continued)
Producing Aircraft Components using Wet Lay-up TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Produce Aircraft Components using Wet Lay-up Techniques
- 1b. Produce Aircraft Components using Wet Lay-up Techniques (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Produce Aircraft Components using Wet Lay-up Techniques
- 2b. Know how to Produce Aircraft Components using Wet Lay-up Techniques (continued)
Reinstating the Work Area on Completion of Aircraft Engineering ActivitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Reinstating the Work Area on Completion of Aircraft Engineering Activities
- 1b. Reinstating the Work Area on Completion of Aircraft Engineering Activities (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Reinstating the Work Area on Completion of Aircraft Engineering Activities
- 2b. Know how to Reinstating the Work Area on Completion of Aircraft Engineering Activities (continued)
Servicing Aircrew Life Preserver EquipmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Service Aircrew Life Preserver Equipment
- 1b. Service Aircrew Life Preserver Equipment (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Service Aircrew Life Preserver Equipment
- 2b. Know how to Service Aircrew Life Preserver Equipment (continued)
Servicing Aircrew Nuclear, Biological and Chemical _NBC_ Respirators and EquipmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Servicing Aircrew Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) Respirators and Equipment
- 1b. Servicing Aircrew Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) Respirators and Equipment (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Servicing Aircrew Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) Respirators and Equipment
- 2b. Know how to Servicing Aircrew Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) Respirators and Equipment (continued)
Servicing Aircrew Protective Helmets and Electrical HeadsetsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Service Aircrew Protective Helmets and Electrical Headsets
- 1b. Service Aircrew Protective Helmets and Electrical Headsets (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Service Aircrew Protective Helmets and Electrical Headsets
- 2b. Know how to Service Aircrew Protective Helmets and Electrical Headsets (continued)
Servicing Parachute AssembliesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Service Parachute Assemblies
- 1b. Service Parachute Assemblies (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Service Parachute Assemblies
- 2b. Know how to Service Parachute Assemblies (continued)
Setting Up and Preparing Loads for MovingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- 1a. Set Up and Preparing Loads for Moving
- 1b. Set Up and Preparing Loads for Moving (continued)
- 2a. Know how to Set Up and Preparing Loads for Moving
- 2b. Know how to Set Up and Preparing Loads for Moving (continued)
Using and interpreting engineering data and documentationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use and interpret engineering data and documentation
- Use and interpret engineering data and documentation
Working efficiently and effectively in engineeringReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Work efficiently and effectively in engineering
- Work efficiently and effectively in engineering
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Assembling Aircraft Composite Components
- Assembling aircraft airframe ancillary components
- Assembling aircraft electrical components
- Carry out maintenance on aircraft mechanical systems by component replacement
- Carrying out aircraft handling operations
- Carrying out aircraft routine servicing
- Carrying out bonding operations on aircraft composite components
- Carrying out repairs to aircraft composite mouldings
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Aeronautical Engineering (QCF)
33 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Assembling Aircraft Airframe Ancillary Components
- Assembling Aircraft Composite Components
- Assembling Aircraft Electrical Components
- Carry Out Maintenance on Aircraft Mechanical Systems by Component Replacement
- Carrying Out Aircraft Handling Operations
- Carrying Out Aircraft Routine Servicing
and 27 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.