Description
Install, inspect, test, calibrate, and repair aircraft avionics, including radar, radios, navigation, communication, and flight-management systems, ensuring airworthiness and compliance with technical data.
- • Set up and operate ground support and test equipment to perform functional tests of avionics systems.
- • Test and troubleshoot instruments, components, and LRUs using multimeters, oscilloscopes, and avionics test sets.
- • Document maintenance, inspections, tests, and repairs in logs and digital systems.
- • Coordinate with engineers, pilots, and maintenance personnel to resolve avionics issues and plan work.
- • Interpret fault codes, wiring diagrams, and flight or test data to diagnose malfunctions.
- • Install avionics components, wire harnesses, and systems using approved tools and procedures.
- • Adjust, repair, or replace malfunctioning components and LRUs; perform alignments and calibrations.
- • Connect and route wiring and interfaces for radios, navigation, transponders, antennas, sensors, and power converters.
- • Assemble and terminate connectors, switches, and junction boxes, including soldering and crimping.
- • Fabricate wire bundles, mounting hardware, and test aids as required.
- • Lay out installations per blueprints, schematics, wiring diagrams, and maintenance manuals.
- • Build or modify test circuits and rigs to support troubleshooting and verification.
- • Load software, configure avionics, and update firmware and navigation databases per procedures.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
