| (a) Implementation. The provisions of this section
shall be implemented by school districts beginning with the 2025-2026
school year.
(b) General requirements. This course is recommended
for students in Grades 9-12. Recommended prerequisites: Introduction
to Aircraft Technology. Students shall be awarded one credit for successful
completion of this course.
(c) Introduction.
(1) Career and technical education instruction provides
content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical
knowledge and skills for students to further their education and succeed
in current or emerging professions.
(2) The Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics
Career Cluster focuses on planning, management, and movement of people,
materials, and goods by road, pipeline, air, rail, and water and related
professional support services such as transportation infrastructure
planning and management, logistics services, mobile equipment, and
facility maintenance.
(3) Aircraft Maintenance Technology is designed to
teach the theory of operation, general maintenance, and repair practices
of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) general curriculum subjects
utilizing aircraft, aircraft training devices, or equivalent simulated
situations. In this course, the academic and technical skills are
separated to reflect the learning outcomes as designed in the FAA
airman certification standards. Maintenance and repair practices include
knowledge of the function, diagnosis, and service of aircraft and
their associated equipment. Industry-recognized professional licensures,
certifications, and registrations are available for students who meet
the requirements set forth by the accrediting organization.
(4) Students are encouraged to participate in extended
learning experiences such as career and technical student organizations
and other leadership or extracurricular organizations.
(5) Statements that contain the word "including" reference
content that must be mastered, while those containing the phrase "such
as" are intended as possible illustrative examples.
(6) The FAA uses standard terms with specific expectations
for performance. The terms are defined as follows.
(A) Check means to verify proper operation.
(B) Inspect means to examine with or without inspection
enhancing tools or equipment.
(C) Overhaul means to disassemble, clean, inspect,
repair as necessary, and reassemble.
(D) Repair means to correct a defective condition.
(E) Service means to perform functions that assure
continued operation.
(F) Troubleshoot means to analyze and identify malfunctions.
(7) When a student performs an action, such as checking,
inspecting, overhauling, repairing, servicing, troubleshooting, and
installing in this course, they are to complete all associated tasks.
If an action detects a flaw, defect, or discrepancy in an aircraft
or component, that finding could trigger another maintenance action.
Actions may include documenting findings through logbook entries,
maintenance action forms, installation plans, and work orders.
(d) Knowledge and skills.
(1) The student demonstrates professional standards,
interpersonal communication, and employability skills as required
by business and industry. The student is expected to:
(A) identify employment opportunities, including entrepreneurship
opportunities, and certification requirements for the field of aircraft
maintenance and repair;
(B) identify and demonstrate ways to contribute and
collaborate as an effective member of a team;
(C) identify individual ethical and legal behavior
standards according to professional and regulatory agencies;
(D) research and discuss the impact of the English
language proficiency requirements as prescribed by the Federal Aviation
Regulations;
(E) identify and explain the technical knowledge and
skills related to human factors in health and safety in the worksite
as addressed by industry standards;
(F) explain the role of human factors in maintaining
health and safety in the workplace and demonstrate personal responsibility
to maintain health and safety in the worksite;
(G) identify and explain how employees' personal responsibility
attitudes can affect the success and profitability of a worksite;
(H) apply reasoning skills to a variety of workplace
situations to make ethical decisions;
(I) identify industry standards related to employee
appearance and health habits;
(J) practice effective written and oral communication
skills;
(K) identify and practice effective listening skills;
and
(L) define and apply FAA standard terms that have specific
expectations for performance, including check, inspect, overhaul,
repair, service, and troubleshoot.
(2) The student relates academic skills to the requirements
of human factors. The student is expected to:
(A) describe safety culture and organizational structures
in the work environment;
(B) identify and explain types of human error and human
factor principles;
(C) identify and discuss the chain-of-events theory,
including pre-conditions and conditions for unsafe acts;
(D) identify and discuss the 12 common causes of mistakes
in the aviation workplace; and
(E) research and discuss the purpose of safety management
systems in the aviation workplace.
(3) The student uses regulatory and industry standards
and demonstrates technical knowledge and skills for human factors,
utilizing aircraft, aircraft training devices, or equivalent simulated
situations. The student is expected to:
(A) complete and submit a malfunction and defect report;
and
(B) research and report on information regarding human
factor errors.
(4) The student relates academic skills to the requirements
of aviation mathematics. The student is expected to:
(A) perform algebraic operations involving addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division, using positive and negative
numbers;
(B) determine areas and volumes of various geometric
shapes;
(C) solve ratio, proportion, and percentage problems;
and
(D) extract roots and raise numbers to a given power.
(5) The student uses regulatory and industry standards
and demonstrates technical knowledge and skills for aviation mathematics,
utilizing aircraft, aircraft training devices, or equivalent simulated
situations. The student is expected to:
(A) compute the volume of a shape such as a baggage
compartment, a fuel tank, or an engine cylinder;
(B) compute the area of an aircraft wing;
(C) convert between fractions and decimals;
(D) compute torque value conversions between inch-pounds
and foot-pounds; and
(E) compute the compression ratio of a reciprocating
engine cylinder.
(6) The student relates academic skills to the requirements
of fundamentals of electricity and electronics. The student is expected
to:
(A) explain electron theory, including magnetism, capacitance,
induction, direct current electrical circuits, and alternating current
electrical circuits;
(B) explain electrical theories and laws, including
Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Law, Watt's Law, Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law,
and right-hand rule;
(C) identify and explain electrical measurement principles
and related tools and procedures for measuring voltage, current, resistance,
and power;
(D) compare types of batteries; and
(E) compare series circuits and parallel circuits.
(7) The student uses regulatory and industry standards
and demonstrates technical knowledge and skills for fundamentals of
electricity and electronics, utilizing aircraft, aircraft training
devices, or equivalent simulated situations. The student is expected
to:
(A) use multimeters to perform circuit continuity tests,
test a switch and fuse, and measure voltage, current, and resistance;
(B) interpret aircraft electrical circuit diagrams
and symbols;
(C) inspect and service an aircraft battery; and
(D) identify faults in circuits by using appropriate
troubleshooting techniques.
(8) The student relates academic skills to the requirements
of physics for aviation. The student is expected to:
(A) explain the theory of flight, including lift, weight,
thrust, and drag, as related to Bernoulli's Principle, Newton's Laws
of Motion, and fluid mechanics;
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