Aircraft maintenance training

Flying Safety,  August, 2003  by Tim Nesley

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This is a paperless system that uses PINs to authenticate the actions. If recurring mandatory training is missed, or the individual for any reason does not perform the tasks correctly, they can be decertified. This system started in the early 1980s and has been improved over the years. We are in the process of developing civilian training plans (similar to military CFETPs) that will be used in the PACSS system to identify core training by civilian job series.

In the corporate world, employees are hired with a certain job qualification. From there, the training is almost solely OJT, using blueprints and technical manuals, to master their area. But, there is not the same requirement to "dig" through the books, and hence the training is only as good as the person doing the training. Likewise, the documentation process is not nearly as formal as the Air Force blue-suit or civil service. Hence, the first levels or leadership/management orchestrate their folks to the areas required and as needed.

As a maintainer who has been around the block a few times, I am very pleased and confident of our training process in the Air Force. Armed with the teachers/trainers/mentors in our present ranks, and a lesson guide like PACs and CFETP, we will continue to exceed the challenges put before us in the future, and make those who have walked in our shoes before us proud of what we are doing.

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