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V81B Improved Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System (IFLOLS) Maintenance Technician

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Overview

An Improved Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System Maintenance Technician performs organizational or intermediate maintenance on IFLOLS equipment. The technician uses general purpose, special purpose, and built-in test equipment and conducts stabilization trouble analysis and planned maintenance system procedures.

Core Skills

  • Landing system stabilization fault analysis
  • Built-in and special-purpose diagnostic testing
  • Optical landing system planned maintenance

Civilian Career Paths

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Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

IFLOLS maintenance, stabilization fault analysis, and use of general and special-purpose test equipment provide transferable experience for isolating equipment faults and checking repairs.

How to prepare: Complete hands-on telecommunications equipment training focused on circuit fault isolation and post-repair functional testing.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.
  • Test repaired, newly installed, or updated equipment to ensure that it functions properly and conforms to specifications, using test equipment and observation.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC V81B

    [1] NEC entry "V81B - Improved Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System (IFLOLS) Maintenance Technician"; cached text line 15368; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Landing system stabilization fault analysis, Built-in and special-purpose diagnostic testing, Optical landing system planned maintenance, Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers (O*NET 49-2022.00)

  2. O*NET: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers (O*NET 49-2022.00)

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