As an Integrated Avionics Specialist, you'll prepare aircraft for special missions like low altitude attack profiles, precision bombing, covert operations, and reconnaissance. In this highly technical career field, you may even perform as the aircraft Dedicated Crew Chief. You'll work with the finest military aircraft in the world, and you'll play an integral role in keeping Air Guard aircraft at readiness performance levels at all times. You'll specialize in electronics and avionics as you maintain and repair a vast array of electronic systems in some of the highest performance aircraft in the world.

Integrated Avionics Systems (Heavy) Specialists are specially trained in:

• Interpreting and applying mechanical, wiring, and electronic circuit diagrams
• Electronic, micro-processor, data bus, and mechanical principles theory and application; theory of flight
• Gyros, synchros, indicators, memory storage devices, antennas, servomechanisms, electromechanical, electro-hydraulic, and electro-optical devices
• Radar, radio frequency communication, surveillance radar and interrogator systems, pulse Doppler radar theory, dependent navigation aides, inertial and radar navigation, electronic countermeasure transmitters and receivers
• Lasers, infrared/ultraviolet receivers
• Optics, automatic flight controls, instruments, multiplexing, fire control, vide display, and digital computer systems working principles
• Subsystem tie-in between integrated avionics systems
• Principles of motion and power transmission by fluid, mechanical and electrical means
• Normal color vision