I am searching for this schematic manual as it’s very helpful. I’ve contacted FlightSafety to try and buy a copy of it from them but they either ignored or didn’t see my request. Any help is appreciated

Hi, I ve been working on the twin otter for the past couple of months. If anyone has any troubleshooting guides or manuals pertaining to this aircraft systems, can you share it with me ? Thanks

Does anyone have any insight or has done the Maintenance Technician Development Program? What's the pay like when you start? Also is it Alaska airlines or horizon? Can you live anywhere and apply? All information is welcome

Hello,

I'm still a long ways out from separating at this point but I'm fairly confident what I ultimately want to do at this point so I figured I'd try to reach out here and see if I can't find some good advice.

First off, I'm 35, wife and kids. I joined the Navy pretty late as I'm only on my fifth year in, but recently advanced to E-6 and went to the four month Navy NDI school back in January. Really enjoy NDI. Want to further pursue it, preferably within aviation working for a major airline or something along those lines.

Prior to the NDI billet I'm filling now I spent four years as a structural/hydraulic mechanic working on F18s in a very high tempo maintenance environment (FDNF) and learned a fair amount in a relatively short amount of time. I was passionate about the work I did and still am.

All that said, I really don't want to be in the Navy in my 40s onward, but I do wish to continue within the field. I never attended any college prior to the Navy, currently working on an aviation maintenance associate degree through Embry-riddle which I've got the impression isn't all that much really, that's fine. I'm currently still in Japan, and likely looking at reenlisting sometime within the next three years and rotating back to sea duty.

Now, what I believe I need to do is make my way back to the states and go through the process of acquiring my A&P. From what I understand the written test cannot be taken anywhere in Japan. I'm loosely familiar with the steps of becoming certificated but I feel like the best thing I could realistically do right now is just prepare for it via the prepware available online. The next consideration being the NDI half of things and what those employer specific requirements may look like coming off of ~6-7 years of experience within the Navy.

Anyways. I'm open to any and all advice as getting out and trasitioning into this will be a pretty big change and learning experience for me and my family and I need to be as prepared as possible for when the time comes. Thanks for any guidance.

Hey guys so I’m currently only working on A320/321’s and have my gen fam completed with Frontier. Does anyone at UAL have any insight as to how the progression works for gen fam classes work over there? I’ve been told if you previously worked on airbus, you sorta get pigeon holed into just airbus. I don’t want to only work on one platform and want to be a more valuable mechanic. Can anyone share some info about the classes and how long it takes to get your next gen fam class assigned?

Hi guys,

I will be applying for my B1 in early in 2025 and I’m looking for feedback from people who have gotten licences recently in Europe.

I’m not going to bother with my own aviation authority (IAA) because they are a shit show and extremely slow at returning messages let alone issuing licences (some colleagues waiting 11 months and no reply to messages or updates on what stage there license application is at).

I’ve contacted a few different authorities;

1. Austria - need to use their logbook and never answered my question about initial processing time.

2. Belgium - won’t accept any experience that was gained outside of any Belgian MRO.

3. Sweden - won’t accept any experience that was gained outside of any Swedish MRO.

4. Greece - absolute last resort but I’ve emailed them and awaiting a response, I will update once I get one.

5. Netherlands - could be the one, only issue is when the time comes to add a type rating the course + OJT must be done in the Netherlands, they will not accept foreign type training + OJT. We can thank our non EASA friends for that.

All relevant feedback/info is greatly appreciated.

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Hello, I (22F) have been working at a medical helicopter company for almost a year now. I get a lot of praise for my work since I just got my A&P in Dec 2023 and have never touched a tool until 2023. I consider myself to be good at the job when it comes to paperwork and making sure we are doing things by the book, but I can’t help but feel under qualified for when bigger problems occur.

We do an on call cycle with three other bases and I am in the cycle. Usually mechanics hired with this company have at least 2 years of mechanical work/ a&p work before they’ll hire them. Which makes sense because you need to know what to do in the field if you are called out at 3am on a Saturday. But I don’t even have a full year in the field yet and can’t help but feel extremely anxious I am going to mess up on call by myself.

I know there is support and that I can let people know when I am not comfortable, but in those cases where its something I’ve never done before and I get called in to do it they are going to expect me to just do it.

This job is awesome and I don’t mind being on call, I just can’t help but feel very alone in the fact I don’t know much. It doesn’t help we work on eurocopters and the manuals are the most garbage things I’ve ever encountered, and on top of it being medical helicopters means they have a trillion STC’s. It’s also hard to get experience in this specific job too, just because I have to travel to do any heavier maintenance. At my base it’s just small inspections constantly & when there is bigger stuff it goes to a heavy maintenance base. So I feel like I am not getting enough learning on a day to day basis, I travel when I can but I cant constantly be gone from home.

I guess I just am overwhelmed and feel like it’s not going to get better. I’m terrified of messing up and ruining something/ someone’s life and it prevents me from having stress free time off. I’ve started medication for anxiety but I still can’t shake this feeling that maybe this field isn’t meant for me. I love aircraft and maintenance, I’m just too overwhelmed by how important it is and how much an impact of one small mistake might make.

Detailer here. The mechanic is off today. Anybody know what this is? It’s a challenger 605. Left engine. I believe it’s CF34 engine.

Navy vet and recently was rated for disability and they put me at 100% for mental health. I’m worried now that I may not be able to get a good job at say an airline now. Do they require security clearances and if so would this be something that would hold me back ? I just passed my general and airframe written. I’d be destroyed if I had to give up now.

Hi, currently 19 and in working as an industrial spray painter at a local manufacturing plant in south east indiana. Im 45 minutes west of Cincinnati Ohio and 1 hour south of Indianapolis Indiana. I currently don't make a lot of money, I only make $23.44 an hour. I've been looking into getting into industrial maintenance since I've seen some places paying $35-$40 an hour. My question for this group is what is your day to day operations and is this a good career field.

Down side to industrial maintenance is they work 60 hours a week at our plant. This really is a turn off because they do this weekly

I want the following 4 things from a career

1. Good work life balance - 40 - 50 hours weekly
2. Home every day/night
3. No traveling
4. Good compensation

Mainly I want to have a life outside of work and be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle. I also live in a rural area and 65k would be more than enough money to make me happy

Has anyone obtained their FAA A&P licence whilst living and working in the U.K. in order to obtain a job in the US. If so how ?

Looking to upgrade my footwear with the Black Friday sales going on. For those mainly indoors, occasionally out to do line maintenance in cold weather, what boots/shoes do you recommend?

To the A&P’s out there, just wondering what is it like taking an A&P practical?

Is the oral just questions about systems and identifying problems?

Do they give you a project on a broken aircraft to complete for the practical portion?

I got a couple years of hangar work at a regional under my belt and just started line mx at a major. First week was pretty rough. I'm not used to this fast paced environment all while also trying to learn new airframes. Any tips or tricks for a line newbie feeling overwhelmed and dumb during his first year. Thanks in advance!

I see people talking about corporate aviation such as working for a company and then getting hired on by clients after awhile. Can someone explain what this is like? For example are you working at a company for so many years and a client says hey I have this jet can you come work for me? Are these usually clients that are in the same state you're working or all over the U.S.? Are these clients in Rural areas with their own runway strips?

Hey guys. Have any of you ever worked at the FAA as a A&P? If so, could you tell me your experience? I didn’t find much about it online.

Hey, I know this must sound weird but I’ll try to explain it as best I can.

I (23f) started my apprenticeship as an aircraft mechanic at a private jet base maintenance facility in September 2022, and I instantly fell in love with the job. Ever since I started, I have been performing exceptionally well in school and have only gotten glowing feedback from supervisors and trained mechanics at work. I hold myself and my work to high standards and try to learn whenever I can, but something has changed and I can’t figure it out.

In the past 3-4 months, things have been getting difficult. It started with me not feeling comfortable doing new tasks alone, which I was fine with before, and escalated into me having panic attacks just turning on power on the aircraft. I don’t see an obvious trigger; I haven’t had any big fuck-up’s in my career, no expensive mistakes, no supervisors or inspectors getting mad at me or anything like that. My work environment is very good and I feel safe and comfortable sharing my worries or asking for help.

In my second month on the job, I did potable water service without a second thought, now, after more than two years, I tear up upon being given that task. My life is centered around planes and this specific job, it’s kind of my gimmick that I’m the nerd who gets the hard tasks because I will do them at 110% - and now I cry in the cockpit because I can’t turn on the power?! It’s all so very confusing and scary.

For the past two months, I helped out in planning, MCC and our warehouse to get a little distance, and in that time I talked to a psychiatrist and got set up with meds. On monday, I’ll be back in the hangar and I’ll be honest - I don’t feel ready.

Has anyone ever had a remotely similar experience or knows someone that has? I have a good support structure at work and at home, but I am so scared that I won’t be able to go back to how things were before.

This was at the air zoo in Kalamazoo MI. I think it's a grumman TBM avenger, correct me if I'm wrong

"How to safety wire properly"

Hey! I'm looking to pick up a set of automatic wire strippers. I've heard great things about the Knipex ones but they are damn expensive. I have some Knipex Cobra pliers and they are fantastic, but I've also had some Klein tools and they are super nice as well. Klein's 11063W auto strippers are about 1/3rd the price of the Knipex 1252195, are the Knipex's really worth 3x as much? TIA

First and foremost, happy thanksgiving / holiday to everyone! I wanted to know if there’s anyone that has the same thought or is doing something to prevent long-term health issues. I want to be in the airlines for a while sort to speak (15-20 years) and I am living in nyc to so will most likely go to LGA or JFK. I wanted to know what people are / have been doing to prevent long term injuries (back/knee/body/etc pain or lost of hearing etc etc). I know the basic PPE like gloves earplugs but is there anything I should do / invest to have little to no long term health problems. I am very invested in this subject so I will read every single comment . Thank you!!

Can you get your license taken away if you mess up on logpages

Hey folks, long time lurker here. Been sold on pursuing this career for about the past 5 months but I won’t be able to start AMT school in Ottawa until 2026

With that in mind, what can I do in the mean time to get involved in the field / aviation community while I wait to start school?

For those wondering, I won’t be able to afford the program in the 2025, so sadly I’ll have to wait that extra bit of time. Trying to go to school with $30,000 CAD cushion

Anything helps! Thanks

To all my brothers & sisters I hope today if you can’t spend the whole day with your family, you spend a moment with someone you love. In this thankless field we in we often bust our asses spending long hours away from our love ones taking shit from every angle. Today I hope you know you are appreciated. & take a moment to appreciate one you have a job if your employed & working today, or the fact your alive today with another opportunity to land that dream job you always wanted. As always be safe but be extra safe today. You got folks at home that love ya & co workers who like seeing your face. Take your time when heading in & out.

Happy Thanksgiving!

While back I was on a 737-800ng , during boarding phase , seeming to come from under the floor at the back was an intermittent loud grinding noise. It happened before start up, Kind of like when you don’t press the clutch enough when changing gear in a car. But really loud and sounded not so healthy. I thought maybe was some pump if they were emptying the lav or something. Anyone have any idea ?