Inspect aircraft, maintenance procedures, air navigational aids, air traffic controls, and communications equipment to ensure conformance with Federal safety regulations.

Other names for Aviation Inspectors: Air Carrier Inspector, Aircraft Inspector, Aircraft Landing Gear Inspector, Aircraft Mechanic, Aircraft Quality Assurance Inspector, Aircraft Quality Control Inspector, Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic, Airplane Inspector, Airworthiness Safety Inspector, Assembly Inspector, Aviation Maintenance Inspector, Aviation Safety Inspector, Avionics Safety Inspector, Flight Inspector, Flight Operations Inspector, Inspector, Jet Inspector, Maintenance Director, Maintenance Inspector, Operations Inspector, Pit Inspector, Preflight Inspector, Supervising Airplane Pilot, Technical Inspector, Aeronautical Inspector,

• Inspect work of aircraft mechanics performing maintenance, modification, or repair and overhaul of aircraft and aircraft mechanical systems, in order to ensure adherence to standards and procedures.
• Start aircraft, and observe gauges, meters, and other instruments to detect evidence of malfunctions.
• Examine aircraft access plates and doors for security.
• Examine landing gear, tires, and exteriors of fuselage, wings, and engines for evidence of damage or corrosion, and to determine whether repairs are needed.
• Prepare and maintain detailed repair, inspection, investigation, and certification records and reports.
• Inspect new, repaired, or modified aircraft to identify damage or defects, and to assess airworthiness and conformance to standards, using checklists, hand tools, and test instruments.
• Examine maintenance records and flight logs to determine if service and maintenance checks and overhauls were performed at prescribed intervals.
• Recommend replacement, repair, or modification of aircraft equipment.
• Recommend changes in rules, policies, standards, and regulations, based on knowledge of operating conditions, aircraft improvements, and other factors.
• Issue pilots' licenses to individuals meeting standards.
• Investigate air accidents and complaints to determine causes.
• Observe flight activities of pilots to assess flying skills and to ensure conformance to flight and safety regulations.
• Conduct flight test programs to test equipment, instruments, and systems under a variety of conditions, using both manual and automatic controls.
• Approve or deny issuance of certificates of airworthiness.
• Analyze training programs and conduct oral and written examinations to ensure the competency of persons operating, installing, and repairing aircraft equipment.
• Schedule and coordinate in-flight testing programs with ground crews and air traffic control to ensure availability of ground tracking, equipment monitoring, and related services.

• Integrated maintenance information systems
• Feeler gauges
• Borescope inspection equipment
• Coordinate measuring machines CMM
• Desktop computers
• Gauges or inspection fixtures
• Eddy current examination equipment
• Eddy current examination equipment
• Liquid penetrant examination equipment
• Magnifiers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Gauges or inspection fixtures
• Ladders
• Notebook computers
• Magnetic particle examination equipment
• Integrated maintenance information systems
• Micrometers
• Pick or place robots
• Ohmmeters
• Oscilloscopes
• Voltage or current meters
• Personal computers
• Rulers
• Pressure indicators
• Protractors
• Scaffolding
• Interferometers
• Tachometers
• Infrared imagers
• Thread counters or gauges
• Torque wrenches
• Ultrasonic examination equipment
• Calipers
• Wearable computing devices
• X ray radiography examination equipment

Office suite software

Word processing software

Spreadsheet software

Data base user interface and query software

Industrial control software