A couple points hit home with me in the No Work Anywhere thread, and that was about getting out there, pounding on doors, selling oneself, and generally working on getting a foot in the door. It can be tough especially if it's been a bit of a slow year or for people out of school or lower on the exp...

Typical aviation...expect people to train themselves so the company can save/make money. I'd suggest investing in another field where they value their people. This isn't typical in my experience. Sometimes to get an extra leg up one has to pay for your own training, or sometimes we get ourselves in...

bhmve,

Have you tried looking at MRO shops that do work on medium airframes?

Getting a rotary endorsement on your own is a waste of time and money. Why would I hire you with an endorsement but no time on the machine? He said most of his time was on Bell mediums, so I would think getting a course would probably make a big difference for him. Still, seems to me (although I'm ...

Rotary wing, newly licenced M2 with no endorsements is a tough spot to be in. It's also not the best time of year to be looking. You should get more bites starting in the new year, moving into the spring. Check here from time to time for job postings: http://forums.verticalmag.com/

I dunno. There's so much discrimination ongoing in the world and society that it makes such topics difficult. - We won't hire you because you aren't buddies with the boss. - We won't hire you because we want more people who where hijabs. - We won't hire you because we need more women. - We won't hir...

In any case owner maintenence on certified aircraft happens all the time. Nothing get put in the logbook and life goes on. The increasing regulatory burden on maintenence providers, with absolutely no credible justified evidence based safety case is rapidly driving more and more maintenence undergr...

Wow, HAC can't make any claim to be speaking for individuals with that letter, only the operators and owners. I agree though that the client demands for PIC hours etc is a strain. I think that's the real issue. If that was less of a barrier, then more pilots would be able to build hours, and there'd...

Total Quality Management (TQM) is along way off in Canada's aviation industry because "we" all think in the old school including the regulators. If you compare Finning Caterpillar Inc.'s QA system to any Canadian Air Carrier you would be shocked to learn who continually makes huge profits for the s...

BTW Transport Canada does not approve the QAM. TC approves the MCM/MPM & DOM. Then please tell me what CAR 573.03(1)(d) actually means and why every QA manager I know of has had to sit through the TCCA interview and receive a letter of acceptance from TCCA indicating that he / she meets the require...

There is always more than meets the eye. What is conspicuously absent is any blame on the USFS for the way they issue their contracts. Empty weight of the a/c is a significant deal maker in the awarding of their contracts. Not to condone falsifying documents, but USFS puts a high demand on having t...

"Great job with the paperwork, pilot sir."

"One of the great things about my job is the genuine recognition from upper management."

I will never flat out tell someone not get into aviation but I am sure as hell not gonna cover up the facts with glitter and unicorns like you do. The opposite of covering up facts with rainbows and unicorns is just as unreasonable. There are some people who think aviation is nothing but getting mo...

No matter how you cut it, as I see it, the PRM is ultimately responsible for the Q.A. program. How that gets administered has to be outlined in the MPM. In practice probably very common, but I would interpret CARs as the PRM being more directly responsible for establishing (as opposed to maintainin...

573.03(1)(d) specifies the requirement to pass the TCCA interview that a PRM has to pass. TCCA does have to approve the QA position. This is only if the "management functions of the entire QA program" have been delegated. If the PRM still retains some QA functions and overall responsibility of the ...

In the helicopter world, after a couple years licenced and a handful of endorsements, a good AME would've traded lifestyle to take less than 80k/year. Most experienced field AMEs wouldn't even look at something for less than that. But, I guess helicopters aren't for everyone either.

In my limited experience, in the day-vfr helicopter world, QA would likely get round about the same average as for a field AME. QA gets a more flat rate salary vs a more variable rate for a field AME, so in slow years QA will get more but the AME has a chance to make more in really busy years. The p...

Yes, it is not a recognized trade because an AME licence doesn't allow you to carry out the work: it's an inspection and certification licence. It is unfortunately a bit of a middle area gray zone (not a trade and not a degree), however, for those willing to pursue it, the inspection and certificati...

If the reports are correct about the sluggish and slow liftoff, then it's unlikely anything to do with the freewheel, but probably a sick engine or another W&B overload issue.

Well, for deliberately falsifying W&B, then yeah that's gonna happen when people die...

I agree with much of what's been said. I think in smaller organizations, QA (because it's been around for so long on the maintenance side) is sometimes synonymous with production manager or chief engineer, especially to those with old school thinking, but in reality is should be very much separated ...

I am not hiring right now, turn over is not very high. haha. this was a posting for a Site Manager a while back, not sure if it is still open. Site Manager - Stettler, ALB-11000190 Description Site Manager – Stettler, AB Wind Farm Vestas-Canadian Wind Technology, Inc. Salary Range: $95,689.44 - $14...

The M1/M2 thing Rick is again correct, but as I said in my earlier post I was using the 12.5 as the dividing line to keep things simple for the new kids. I know when I first started out people would go into great detail about what CARs the airplane was certified as and what FARs those CARs came fro...

gos: In my own experience whenever I have made a maintenance release the pilot has never chosen to not fly the aircraft. If he isn't confident about flying an aircraft that has been released serviceable then he should choose another career. In all honesty I do not want to fly with a pilot who has c...

It is a return to service statement for the maintenance task for which you are signing, whether or not there is oustanding work or not, makes no difference, you are only signing for a task or group of tasks, granted the "return to service" phrase is not the best, but "maintenance release" can be co...