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Learn aircraft systems, maintenance and certification
8 tracks and 41 short lessons, each with a quiz. Free to read, built on FAA handbooks and advisory circulars, and on airliner training material.
About 11 hours of reading in total. Pass a lesson's quiz to mark it complete.
Maintenance Foundations
How safe, legal and well-documented maintenance works: ramp safety, the rules and records behind every signature, human factors, corrosion and inspection.
Flight Operations, Weather and Navigation
The flying side every engineer and technician should understand: how wings make lift, weight and balance, aviation weather, performance-based navigation and RVSM, and practical risk management.
Aircraft Electrical Systems and EWIS
From Ohm's law to a transport aircraft's power network, wiring practice, EWIS certification under Part 25 Subpart H, and system safety analysis.
Airframe Systems
How the big systems of a transport aircraft work: hydraulic power, fly-by-wire flight controls, landing gear, fuel, air conditioning and pressurization, ice and fire protection.
Powerplant and APU
How turbofan engines make thrust, how FADEC controls them, how they start, how they are lubricated and monitored, and how maintenance engine runs and taxiing are done safely.
Structures and Repair
How airframes carry load and resist fatigue, the rules behind sheet-metal and composite repair, how a structural repair manual is organised, and when a fabricated part or alteration needs approval.
Airliner Maintenance Documents and Troubleshooting
How Boeing and Airbus maintenance manuals are organised, how central maintenance computers and data buses help isolate faults, how items are deferred under the MEL, and how flight data drives a hard-landing inspection.
Certification, Quality and Flight Test
How products are certified and kept airworthy, how the FAA delegates through designees, how aerospace quality systems work, how a flight-test plan is built, and how compasses are calibrated.
Lessons are original AviationDevy teaching material for general education. They are not reproduced from any manufacturer manual and are not a substitute for type-specific training or the current approved data for your aircraft. Unfamiliar term? Try the aircraft systems glossary.