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49-3011.00 — Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians

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Technology Skills
Accounting software
  • DatcoMedia EBis
Analytical or scientific software
  • CaseBank SpotLight
  • Engine analysis software
Compiler and decompiler software
  • Disassembler software
Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
Data base user interface and query software
  • Mxi Technologies Maintenix
  • Operational Data Store ODS software
  • Pentagon 2000SQL
Document management software
  • Technical Data Management System TDMS
Electronic mail software
  • Microsoft Outlook
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • SAP software
  • Tracware AeroTrac
Facilities management software
  • Access Software AIRPAX
  • Maintenance information databases
  • Maintenance planning software
  • Maintenance record software
Information retrieval or search software
  • Computerized aircraft log manager CALM
  • Technical manual database software
Internet browser software
  • Web browser software
Inventory management software
  • Supply system software
Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
Operating system software
  • Microsoft Windows
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word
Tools Used
Acoustic ear muffs or defenders
  • Hearing protectors
Adjustable wrenches
Air compressors
Aircraft pushback or tow tractors
  • Tow vehicles
Alignment jig
  • Aligning jigs
Ammeters
Ball peen hammer
  • Ball peen hammers
Bastard cut file
  • Bastard files
Borescope inspection equipment
  • Borescopes
Box end wrenches
  • End wrenches
Cable splicing kits
  • Cable splicing knives
Calibrated resistance measuring equipment
  • Resistance meters
Calipers
  • Vernier calipers
Circuit tester
  • Continuity meters
Cold chisels
  • Flat chisels
  • Straight chisels
Combination wrenches
Compasses
  • Dividers
Desktop computers
Diagonal cut pliers
  • Diagonal cutting pliers
  • Reversible safety wire pliers
Dial indicator or dial gauge
  • Dial indicators
Digital testers
  • Digital diagnostic equipment
Drill bit set
  • Drill bit sets
Drill press or radial drill
  • Drill presses
End cut pliers
  • End cutters
Feeler gauges
Flat nose pliers
  • Duck bill pliers
Forklifts
Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
  • Acetylene welding equipment
Global positioning system GPS receiver
  • Global positioning system GPS devices
Go or no go gauge
  • Go/no-go gauges
Goggles
  • Welding goggles
Ground power units for aircraft
  • External power units
  • Internal power units
Hacksaw
  • Hacksaws
Hammers
  • Plastic tip hammers
Hand clamps
Hand trucks or accessories
  • Hand trucks
Heat guns
Hex keys
  • Allen wrenches
Hoists
Hold down clamps
  • Cleco pliers
Inspection mirror
  • Inspection mirrors
Integrated maintenance information systems
  • Aircraft maintenance management systems
  • Integrated maintenance and inventory systems
  • LTB/400 maintenance management system
  • Maintenance and engineering information systems
  • Maintenance planning systems
  • MxManager
  • Portable maintenance access terminals
  • S.M.A.R.T aircraft maintenance tracking
Jacks
  • Aircraft lifting jacks
Ladders
Laser printers
Lifts
  • Aircraft test stands
  • Mechanical lifts
  • Power lifts
Locking pliers
  • Channel lock pliers
  • Vise grip pliers
Magnetic particle examination equipment
  • Magnetic inspection equipment
Magnetic tools
  • Magnetic pickup tools
Mallets
Manlift or personnel lift
  • Manlifts
Manual press brake
  • Brakes
Metal cutters
  • Offset left aviation snips
  • Offset right aviation snips
  • Sheet metal breakers
  • Straight cut aviation snips
Micrometers
Microprocessors
  • Ignition analyzers
Mill saw file
  • Single-cut mill saw files
Multimeters
Needlenose pliers
Nibblers
  • Hand nibblers
Notebook computers
  • Laptop computers
Ohmmeters
Open end wrenches
Oscilloscopes
Paint sprayers
Personal computers
Pneumatic drill
  • Air drills
Pneumatic impact wrenches
  • Pneumatic wrenches
Portable data input terminals
  • Handheld computers
  • Wearable data input systems
Power drills
  • Cordless drills
  • Electric drills
  • Hand drills
Power grinders
Power riveter
  • Rivet guns
Pressure indicators
  • Pressure gauges
Pull spring balances
  • Spring balance scales
Punches or nail sets or drifts
  • Brass punches
  • Center punches
  • Pin punches
  • Taper punches
Putty knives
Pyrometers
Ratchets
Rectifiers
  • Portable rectifiers
Respirators
Rivet tools
  • Bucking bars
  • Pneumatic riveters
Rulers
Safety glasses
Scaffolding
Scales
Screw extractors
  • Screw extractor sets
Screwdrivers
  • Flat blade screwdrivers
  • Phillips head screwdrivers
  • Ratcheting screwdrivers
Scribers
  • Machinists' double point scribers
Shears
  • Power shears
Shielded metal arc welding or stick welding machine
  • Shielded arc welding tools
Slip or groove joint pliers
  • Slip joint pliers
Socket sets
  • Socket wrench sets
Sockets
  • Aviation spark plug sockets
Soldering iron
  • Soldering equipment
Specialty wrenches
  • Ignition wrench sets
  • Speed wrenches
Speed sensors
  • Timing lights
Squares
  • Combination squares
Stripping tools
  • Wire strippers
Tablet computers
Tape measures
  • Measuring tapes
Target or reconnaissance drones
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles UAV
Templates
Tinners snips
  • Compound leverage snips
Torque wrenches
Touch pads
  • Touch screens
Tracer or duplicating or contouring lathe
  • Lathes
Ultrasonic examination equipment
  • Ultrasonic inspection equipment
Utility knives
Vibration testers
  • Vibration analyzers
Voltage or current meters
  • Electrical current meters
  • Voltmeters
Wearable computing devices
  • Portable maintenance aids mobile computing devices
  • Wearable computers
  • Wearable point and click devices
Welder torch
  • Brazing equipment
Wire cutters
  • Wire cutting tools
Wire lug crimping tool
  • Wire crimpers
Wire twister
  • Safety wire pliers
X ray radiography examination equipment
  • X ray inspection equipment
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