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- Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:21 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Selling Yourself
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2200
Selling Yourself
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...
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:03 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: No work anywhere
- Replies: 36
- Views: 7117
Re: No work anywhere
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...
- Fri Dec 06, 2013 1:27 pm
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: No work anywhere
- Replies: 36
- Views: 7117
Re: No work anywhere
bhmve,
Have you tried looking at MRO shops that do work on medium airframes?
Have you tried looking at MRO shops that do work on medium airframes?
- Fri Dec 06, 2013 1:26 pm
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: No work anywhere
- Replies: 36
- Views: 7117
Re: No work anywhere
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 ...
- Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:51 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: No work anywhere
- Replies: 36
- Views: 7117
Re: No work anywhere
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/
- Thu Nov 28, 2013 11:13 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Hiring child-bearing age females
- Replies: 90
- Views: 9610
Re: Hiring child-bearing age females
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...
- Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:32 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: FAA and Owner Maintenance
- Replies: 52
- Views: 4226
Re: FAA and Owner Maintenance
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...
- Fri Oct 11, 2013 12:19 pm
- Forum: Helicopter Forum
- Topic: Foreign pilots and helicopter operators
- Replies: 68
- Views: 48240
Re: Foreign pilots and helicopter operators
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...
- Thu Oct 03, 2013 11:11 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: top AME and QA pay differences
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6041
Re: top AME and QA pay differences
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...
- Thu Oct 03, 2013 10:59 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: top AME and QA pay differences
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6041
Re: top AME and QA pay differences
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...
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:59 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Jail time for a DOM
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2455
Re: Jail time for a DOM
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...
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:50 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Things you will never hear an AME say
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4345
Re: Things you will never hear an AME say
"Great job with the paperwork, pilot sir."
"One of the great things about my job is the genuine recognition from upper management."
"One of the great things about my job is the genuine recognition from upper management."
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:27 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: High 20's a/hr mech apprentice positions BC Hydro
- Replies: 63
- Views: 8739
Re: High 20's a/hr mech apprentice positions BC Hydro
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...
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:15 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: top AME and QA pay differences
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6041
Re: top AME and QA pay differences
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...
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:08 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: top AME and QA pay differences
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6041
Re: top AME and QA pay differences
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 ...
- Tue Oct 01, 2013 2:59 pm
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: High 20's a/hr mech apprentice positions BC Hydro
- Replies: 63
- Views: 8739
Re: High 20's a/hr mech apprentice positions BC Hydro
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.
- Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:21 pm
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: top AME and QA pay differences
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6041
Re: top AME and QA pay differences
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...
- Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:09 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Future AME Discouraged
- Replies: 341
- Views: 264039
Re: Future AME Discouraged
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...
- Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:31 am
- Forum: Helicopter Forum
- Topic: Families of firefighters who died in crash file suit
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4941
Re: Families of firefighters who died in crash file suit
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.
- Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:25 am
- Forum: Maintenance
- Topic: Jail time for a DOM
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2455
Re: Jail time for a DOM
Well, for deliberately falsifying W&B, then yeah that's gonna happen when people die...