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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 2/21/2006 1:37:39 AM   
cleatis123



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Status: offline 		US NAVY In-Flight Technician aboard P-3 ORION nothing like flyin 500 ft. over the water working on the broken radar!!!
Westwood College Houston Tx. A&P cert. 2003 Worked on King-Airs and a bunch of GA stuff currently rebuilding a Citabria and working on my CFI-CFII-MEI I want to fly these dang thangs that i keep fixing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 2/21/2006 6:17:07 AM   
da50ex


 

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From: Kent, WA, USA
Status: offline 		I got my A&P in 1978 at Lewis U in Lockport Ill. Moved to Seattle got my IA in !981 while serving 19years "hard time" at an FBO. Landed a job with a private company 8 years ago taking care of one jet (F50EX) and 2 helis (A109E & MD520). Much better now, the boss has a F7X on order.
John

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 3/8/2006 5:31:49 AM   
pilotkid22



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From: Shreveport, LA, USA
Status: offline 		USAF B-52 jet engine mechanic. Joined up in 2003. No A&P yet. I'd rather do the flyin' thing though. After the military, I'll be getting IFR through ATP ratings in Dallas, Tx

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 3/8/2006 9:26:04 PM   
norcal tom


 

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From: manteca, CA, USA
Status: offline 		One year left. I'm jumping ship from heavy equipment. I've been in equipment for almost twenty years and it's the worst job in the world (imo). Now I work 9+ hours then go to school for 6, 5 days a week. I can't wait, going to work at the airport, everyday, to work on airplanes

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 3/10/2006 5:29:44 PM   
John Palica


 

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Status: offline 		A&E!!!!!!!!!! in 1957. Burgard Vocational HS in Buffalo NY. Flew myself to Rochester NY in a 7AC Champ to take the exam.

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 3/18/2006 10:40:12 AM   
crasharama



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From: Mt Coolum QLD, AUSTRALIA
Status: offline 		Hey guys,

I am an Avionics Engineer, 14 years at Qantas on RAAF 707 tankers, 747, 767, in ramp, hangars & workshops.

Am now with Singapore Airlines working as a Simulator Tech on the Bombardier Lear Jet 45 Simulators, made by both Flight Safety International & CAE.

Always hated the overhaul workshops, but the rest of the industry is good fun

Tony.

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 11/12/2006 10:33:04 PM   
nuttzzy34


 

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From: midland, TX, USA
Status: offline 		one more semester or Airframe I have my Powerplant already, Had an interview with cessna along with two other guys to see who gets recruted right out of school to be trained. Like airframe more than I do Powerplant have an intrest in sheetmetal and fabrics mostly. what part about it do yall enjoy most

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 11/13/2006 2:11:21 AM   
Kweasel


 

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Status: offline 		Companies are always looking for fresh meat to exploit. A large percentage of A&P work is just basic unskilled labor and every shop needs some new guys that will work cheap. Hopefully you will be well liked and move up to a livable wage within the industry. If the future is not looking so good, have a backup career in mind. I started working as a plumber as a teenager, got into aviation (mistake), finally got a job with a major and lucked into a shop making 70K working 15 hours a week. Now Im back to being a plumber and for me aviation is a thing of the past. I now know why airplanes fly, it has nothing to do with Bernoulli, they leave the ground because aviation sucks.

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 11/14/2006 4:52:04 AM   
TFF


 

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Status: offline 		I presantly work on CRJ 200 and have worked on Saabs and Jetstreams. The most fun I have though is my side job which is working on Enstrom Helicopters because I have flight privlages . Changing an engine in a Cirrus SR22 too. Putting my RC trainning to good use every day!

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 11/15/2006 10:26:15 AM   
APIA


 

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Joined: 8/27/2004
From: Roanoke, TX, USA
Status: offline 		Aviation is what you make of it, If you dont like it get the hell out... I have been in this industry for 25 years and yes I could have a higher paying job (I was an engineer at Bell Helicopter and threw it all away to work on GA airplanes) but when you love what you do that is what ultimately matters in the end.
-Tom
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ORIGINAL: Kweasel

Companies are always looking for fresh meat to exploit. A large percentage of A&P work is just basic unskilled labor and every shop needs some new guys that will work cheap. Hopefully you will be well liked and move up to a livable wage within the industry. If the future is not looking so good, have a backup career in mind. I started working as a plumber as a teenager, got into aviation (mistake), finally got a job with a major and lucked into a shop making 70K working 15 hours a week. Now Im back to being a plumber and for me aviation is a thing of the past. I now know why airplanes fly, it has nothing to do with Bernoulli, they leave the ground because aviation sucks.



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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 11/16/2006 3:17:34 AM   
madman4049


 

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From: Surprise, AZ, USA
Status: offline 		Hello all,

Wow I never woulda dreamed of a Maintainer post on this forum but hey why not. So heres me.

U.S. Air Force E-5 been an F-16C/D Crew Chief (CrewDog)for six years now and absolutely love it. Started on Block 52's then worked Transient Alert/Crash Recovery for a year and tinkered with just about anything you can imagine Cessna's, C-17, Chinook, Apache, C-5, C-12, C-130 (<- got my wish for a little while), C-17, F-117, F-18, A-10, B-737-400, Boeing 747, and MD-11 to name a few. Now I am back stateside and working the old block 25's. I got started in Aviation as a kid through my dad and RC. As you can tell I still do both. I was originally gonna be a C-130 Crew Chief but somehow got put on F-16's. It's a busy fast paced life and I go home tired, sore, and filthy, and I can't hear a darn thing but hey the whole world is my office and who doesn't love the smell of burnt JP8 and watching that big flame coming out the tail at o dark thirty in the morning.

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 11/16/2006 8:54:44 AM   
Kweasel


 

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From: fort worth, TX, USA
Status: offline 		I can't blame anyone for leaving Bells engineering department, I know a couple of guys who left because they had enough of the corruption. Aviation is one industry that a person has to love because it doesn't have much going for it otherwise. It is a great hobby for the wealthy, but a terrible way to make a living for a family. Working GA is ok as long as you can charge the customer directly. I still have a couple of good customers, but only because they pay good.

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 12/31/2006 7:11:11 AM   
robert waldo


 

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From: valley springs, CA, USA
Status: offline 		A&P with IA for over 30 violation free years on everything from a Pitts to a 747 all over the world, just had my A&P revoked because I called the cops on a Salt Lake FAA Inspector who broke into a friends Cessna 310. The cop actually filled a report with the Tooele Valley Sheriffs Department stating the airplane was intered without the owners permission. The fed was so upset with me he lied on a LOI about a transponder check I had sighned off. The FAA/NTSB kangaroo court just reafirm each other and believe more than 50% of the FAA and nothing what a mechanic said. So if it's that easy to take away a man's livlyhood in this country they can keep the ******* thing

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 12/31/2006 7:26:28 AM   
Kweasel


 

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Status: offline 		A mechanic at my airline got his ticket pulled, management liked him so they put him in that position where no license is required.

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 1/2/2007 7:59:22 AM   
Underaged Pilot



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From: Dixon, CA, USA
Status: offline 		I get annoyed enough with my RC plane's engine and tail feathers. I use to like the idea, but I do not think I'll become a mechanic

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RE: How many real aircraft mechanics outhere? - 1/2/2007 5:06:43 PM