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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Defence Awarding Organisation has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Defence Awarding Organisation awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Defence Awarding Organisation.
Qualifications for Defence Awarding Organisation courses.
These are the units Defence Awarding Organisation 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Defence Awarding Organisation. It does the teaching and the mapping. Defence Awarding Organisation sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Conduct Free Drop Air Dispatch Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct live Free Drop Air Dispatch (FDAD) operations effectively and safely during both day and night, adhering to all relevant safety regulations and procedures.
Conduct Interdiction Operations Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Describe how to conduct Vehicle Interdiction (VI)
- Conduct Vehicle Interdiction (VI)
- Operate aircraft defences
- Provide air to ground support
Conduct Specialist Insertion/Extraction Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare roping equipment
- Describe how to conduct Fast Roping (FR) operations
- Describe how to conduct specialist roping operations
- Conduct live specialist roping operations in the air
- Describe how to conduct Free Air Drop Dispatch (FDAD)
- Conduct Free Drop Air Dispatch (FDAD)
- Describe how to conduct Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) operations
- Conduct Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) operations
- Describe how to conduct winching operations
- Conduct winching operations
- Describe how to conduct Helicopter Assault Force (HAF) operations
Conduct World Wide Operations Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Consider how to conduct desert landings
- Carry out desert landings by day
- Carry out desert landings at night
- Describe how to conduct desert operations
- Conduct desert operations in a desert environment
- Conduct desert operations by day
- Conduct desert operations at night
- Conduct LALO transit
- Conduct desert LALO Right Hand Seat (RHS)
- Conduct desert LALO, Left hand Seat (LHS)
- Operate Electrical Optic Stabilised Turret (EOST)
- Operate desert LALO console
Conduct maritime operations Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the appropriate strategies and tactics for conducting Maritime Counter Terrorism (MCT) operations in various scenarios.
- Conduct Maritime Counter Terrorism (MCT) operations effectively, adhering to established protocols and procedures.
Conduct operations in a Chemical, Biological, Radiological Nuclear environment Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct operations effectively and safely in a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) environment, adhering to relevant safety protocols and procedures.
Conversion to Chinook (Optional unit) Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Consider configuration differences of the Chinook helicopter.
- Describe the location and function of integration systems differences in the Chinook helicopter.
- Discuss CDS (Cockpit Display System) and DNVG (Digital Night Vision Goggles) differences in the Chinook helicopter.
- Describe communications differences in the Chinook helicopter.
- Articulate navigation and flight sensor differences in the Chinook helicopter.
- Describe Release To Service (RTS) differences in the Chinook helicopter.
- Describe Digital Advanced Flight Control System (DAFCS) function differences in the Chinook helicopter.
- Consider core Digital Advanced Flight Control Systems (DAFCS) differences in the Chinook helicopter.
- Apply DAFCS differences in the Chinook helicopter.
- Consider general handling emergency differences in the Chinook helicopter.
- Describe how to use DAFCS in the Chinook helicopter.
- Demonstrate how to apply DAFCS by day in the Chinook helicopter.
- Demonstrate how to apply DAFCS at night in the Chinook helicopter.
Employ Core Skills Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct General Handling (GH) manoeuvres
- Navigate the Aircraft (Ac)
- Operate at NVD level A
- Operate in a mountainous environment
- Manage the aircraft at an overnight location
Manage Missions Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the processes involved in conducting pre-mission management activities.
- Conduct pre-mission management activities in accordance with established procedures and protocols.
- Describe the procedures and considerations for executing a mission effectively.
Operate Role Specific equipment Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Operate the aircraft secure communications suite.
- Operate Aircrew Equipment Assembly (AEA).
- Describe the Electrical Optical System Turret (EOST).
- Operate EOST core functions.
- Describe an Avionics Management System (AMS).
- Operate an Avionics Management System (AMS).
- Operate a Mission Management system (MMS).
Operate tactically Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Describe how to operate aircraft defences.
- Operate aircraft defences.
- Describe how to fly in formation.
- Fly in formation.
- Describe how to operate within an Electronic Warfare (EW) environment.
- Provide air to ground support.
- Employ evasion tactics.
Operate within Specialist Role Environment Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Determine how to operate within specialist flying regulations
- Determine how to operate within specialist units
- Explain how to participate in operations and exercises
Ship Operations Real unit · Defence Awarding Organisation
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct basic ship operations, demonstrating competence in essential shipboard tasks.
- Conduct advanced ship operations during daylight hours, demonstrating proficiency in complex shipboard tasks.
- Conduct ship operations during both day and night, demonstrating adaptability and competence in varying conditions.
- Conduct Marine Counter Terrorism (MCT) operations during both day and night, demonstrating proficiency in counter-terrorism tactics.
- Conduct Marine Counter Terrorism (MCT) operations (Ship Flarex) during both day and night, demonstrating proficiency in specific counter-terrorism scenarios.
- Conduct Marine Counter Terrorism (MCT) operations (OEI Flarex) during both day and night, demonstrating proficiency in specific counter-terrorism scenarios.
- Conduct Marine Counter Terrorism (MCT) operations (MCT airplans) during both day and night, demonstrating proficiency in specific counter-terrorism scenarios.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Check and operate flight instruments and automatic flight control systems
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Check and operate navigation, surveillance and communication equipment
- Standard
Contribute to helicopter handling operations
- Standard
Contribute to helicopter refuelling operations
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Operate In-Flight Systems, Equipment and Doors
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Operate specialist equipment in an airport environment
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 7 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Operations Duty Officer
This role can lead to an OCC Duty Manager post, taking on major incidents and higher-stakes decisions, or into an OCC Manager role running the wider function.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Defence Awarding Organisation rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Conduct Free Drop Air DispatchConduct Interdiction OperationsConduct Specialist Insertion/ExtractionConduct World Wide OperationsConduct maritime operationsConduct operations in a Chemical, Biological, Radiological Nuclear environmentConversion to Chinook (Optional unit)Employ Core Skills
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
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“Manage Missions” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Check and operate flight instruments and automatic flight control systems
- Check and operate navigation, surveillance and communication equipment
- Contribute to helicopter handling operations
- Contribute to helicopter refuelling operations
- Operate In-Flight Systems, Equipment and Doors
- Operate specialist equipment in an airport environment
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Conduct Free Drop Air Dispatch, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will acquire the skills to conduct live Free Drop Air Dispatch (FDAD) operations safely during both day and night. The unit includes pre-flight checks, adherence to safety regulations, emergency response, accurate record-keeping, and post-operation evaluation.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for DAO Level 5 Diploma in Specialist Helicopter Operations
13 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Defence Awarding Organisation.
- Conduct Free Drop Air Dispatch
- Conduct Interdiction Operations
- Conduct Specialist Insertion/Extraction
- Conduct World Wide Operations
- Conduct maritime operations
- Conduct operations in a Chemical, Biological, Radiological Nuclear environment
and 7 more in the full unit list below.
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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.