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City & Guilds Limited · RQF Level 2

City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate In Aircraft Maintenance (Military Aircraft)

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 2
  • Total credits22
  • Guided learning180 hours
  • Units in this qualification7

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City & Guilds offers a wide range of qualifications in Transport Maintenance, including Introductory, Higher Level and apprenticeship options. Learn more.

These are the units City & Guilds Limited 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.

Flight Line Maintenance of Military AircraftReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit provides knowledge of fluid replenishment procedures in military aircraft, including hydraulic oil, brake system fluids, and engine oils. You'll understand safety precautions and procedures for refuelling, defuelling, and recharging hydraulic accumulators and oxygen systems.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the procedures for hydraulic oil replenishment in aircraft systems.
  • Know the procedures for brake system foot motor replenishment in aircraft.
  • Know the procedures for gas turbine engine and gearbox oil replenishment in aircraft.
  • Know the procedures for aircraft refuelling and defuelling, adhering to safety regulations.
  • Understand hydraulic accumulator re-charging procedures and safety precautions.
  • Understand normal and emergency gaseous oxygen system recharging procedures and safety precautions.
  • Fit and remove a liquid oxygen (LOX) unit safely and correctly.
  • Understand the visual checking of aircraft tyres and tyre pressures, identifying potential issues.
  • Carry out aircraft flight servicing procedures according to approved documentation.
Fundamentals of Airframe Structural Inspection and HusbandryReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll develop foundational knowledge of airframe structures, including components, construction types, and environmental damage such as corrosion. The unit also covers inspection processes for aircraft transparencies and gas turbine engine components.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the general concepts of airframe structures and their components.
  • Know the types of environmental damage that can affect airframe structures.
  • Know the effects of corrosion on aircraft and their components.
  • Understand the implications of unseen damage to aircraft composite structures.
  • Know the inspection process for aircraft transparencies, including windscreens and windows.
  • Know inspection processes for gas turbine engines and their intakes, identifying potential issues.
  • Know inspection processes for aircraft pipes, ducts and connectors, ensuring integrity.
  • Know the inspection process for aircraft wiring and cables, identifying damage and wear.
  • Understand the purpose of aircraft husbandry and condition audits in maintaining airworthiness.
  • Understand the removal and neutralisation of corrosive fluid contamination on aircraft structures.
Fundamentals of Military Aircraft DocumentationReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll gain comprehensive knowledge of military aircraft documentation systems, including the Air Publications structure and content. The unit emphasises accurate record-keeping, quality control, electronic data recording, and the use of maintenance work recording documentation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the structure and content of the Air Publications (AP) system used in military aircraft maintenance.
  • Understand the importance of accurate documentation and quality control in aircraft maintenance activities.
  • Understand the methods and benefits of electronic data recording of maintenance activities.
  • Understand the purpose and content of aircraft maintenance work recording documentation.
  • Correctly use aircraft maintenance work recording documentation to record maintenance activities.
Fundamentals of Military Aircraft Maintenance Practices and PolicyReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit covers approved military aircraft maintenance procedures, documentation requirements, and relevant environmental protection and health and safety legislation. You'll also understand quality management systems, Foreign Object Damage prevention, and individual responsibilities for flight safety.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand approved aircraft maintenance procedures and documentation requirements.
  • Understand the requirements of environmental protection and health and safety legislation relevant to aircraft maintenance.
  • Understand the purpose and application of quality management systems within aircraft maintenance organisations.
  • Understand the need for the prevention of Foreign Object Damage (FOD) and the methods used to control it.
  • Understand the responsibilities of individuals for Flight Safety within an aircraft maintenance environment.
  • Understand the purpose and operation of aircraft Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS).
  • Understand fire safety precautions and procedures within an aircraft maintenance environment.
  • Understand safety precautions for handling and storing corrosive fluids used in aircraft maintenance.
  • Understand hangar and workshop safety precautions and procedures.
  • Understand tool control methods and their importance in aircraft maintenance.
Fundamentals of Military Airframe ConstructionReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit provides comprehensive knowledge of military airframe construction, covering structural components, construction types, and husbandry procedures to maintain airworthiness. You'll also study locking and fastening devices, hydraulic power systems, and flight control systems.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the general concepts of airframe structures and their components in military aircraft.
  • Understand structural husbandry procedures for military aircraft, ensuring airworthiness.
  • Understand the types of locking and fastening devices used in aircraft construction and maintenance.
  • Know the operation of aircraft hydraulic power systems and their components.
  • Know the operation of aircraft flight control systems and their components.
  • Know aircraft landing gear systems and their operation.
  • Know the operation of aircraft ice and rain protection systems.
  • Understand the operation of aircraft oxygen systems and their components.
  • Know the operation of aircraft air systems, including air conditioning and pressurisation.
  • Know the operation of aircraft assisted escape systems and their safety features.
Human Factors in AviationReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll explore the significance of human factors in aviation safety and efficiency, examining human performance features, social psychology, and personal and environmental influences. The unit covers limitations of attention and memory, perception, decision-making, and task categories affecting performance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand why human factors are important in aviation safety and efficiency.
  • Know features of human performance, including limitations and capabilities.
  • Know aspects of social psychology relevant to aviation, such as teamwork and leadership.
  • Know personal factors that affect human performance, such as stress, fatigue, and health.
  • Know physical aspects of working environments that affect human performance, such as noise, lighting, and temperature.
  • Know categories of task that can affect human performance, such as workload and monotony.
  • Understand communication in the workplace and its impact on safety.
  • Understand how human error occurs and contributing factors.
  • Know hazards and risks in aeronautical engineering environments and methods of mitigation.
Working Safely with Aircraft Armament SystemsReal unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll understand explosive safety principles and regulations related to aircraft armament systems. The unit covers aircraft assisted escape systems, armament role equipment, stores management, gun and missile systems, countermeasures, and weapons handling procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of explosive safety and relevant regulations.
  • Understand the function and operation of aircraft assisted escape systems (AAES).
  • Know the purpose and operation of aircraft armament role equipment.
  • Know the principles and operation of aircraft stores management systems (SMS).
  • Understand the function and operation of aircraft gun systems.
  • Know the different types and characteristics of aircraft missiles.
  • Understand the function and operation of aircraft countermeasure systems.
  • Know the different types of aircraft weapons and their applications.
  • Understand the necessary safety precautions to be taken when working with armed aircraft.

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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.

Flight Line Maintenance of Military AircraftFundamentals of Airframe Structural Inspection and HusbandryFundamentals of Military Aircraft DocumentationFundamentals of Military Aircraft Maintenance Practices and PolicyFundamentals of Military Airframe ConstructionHuman Factors in AviationWorking Safely with Aircraft Armament Systems

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate In Aircraft Maintenance (Military Aircraft)
  • Management of Human Factors
  • Prepare and present documents to support continuing airworthiness activities
  • Produce, manage and control continuing airworthiness documentation
  • Store, retrieve and archive continuing airworthiness documentation
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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.

Management of Human FactorsPrepare and present documents to support continuing airworthiness activitiesProduce, manage and control continuing airworthiness documentationStore, retrieve and archive continuing airworthiness documentation

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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Flight Line Maintenance of Military AircraftLevel 2

Applied to your own work

This unit provides knowledge of fluid replenishment procedures in military aircraft, including hydraulic oil, brake system fluids, and engine oils. Learners will understand safety precautions and procedures for refuelling, defuelling, and recharging hydraulic accumulators and oxygen systems.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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Built for City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate In Aircraft Maintenance (Military Aircraft)

7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City & Guilds Limited.

  1. Flight Line Maintenance of Military Aircraft
  2. Fundamentals of Airframe Structural Inspection and Husbandry
  3. Fundamentals of Military Aircraft Documentation
  4. Fundamentals of Military Aircraft Maintenance Practices and Policy
  5. Fundamentals of Military Airframe Construction
  6. Human Factors in Aviation

and 1 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

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Why it sticks

Most courses stop at remembering

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  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

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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.

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