I'm new around here and was wondering who actually works in aviation.

Me, I'm not. I just love watching airplanes.

Thanks.

I do

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Last time I checked I did.

To be pedantic, the question wasWho here is in the aviation industry? So "I do" and "I did" are not really correct answers. :8

I was, but on the IT side before my job was stolen from me.

I am still in the IT industry :ugh: I still like aeroplanes though.

I'm trying and not getting very far :p

And a good morning Mr Pedantic the Clumsy.

You can count me "IN"
some would say that my contribution is not always welcome or indeed of any use but I persist.

The question in the opening post asks who works in aviation. So I respectfully suggest the answers were correct.

I do. Got a good job :E

How about "Who here DOESN'T work in aviation......"

... but feels qualified and entitled to expound on their aviation-related opinions and moan about huge watches.

As of March 7th, I am!!!

According to yesterday's pay slip, I am.

Merely an enthusiastic PPL; passed up the chance to go whole hog CPL/IR ATPL when I saw the starting salaries.

Glad to say thats working out well for me - especially when I meet guys whom I PPL'd with who are now on the first rung of the commercial ladder, that opinion gets re-enforced as being the correct one.

Am I still allowed to venture an opinion on big watches though?

Dolphins

The question was 'who actually works in aviation?'....hmmm..now that is a very good question.

Temps

I, as many other ATCO's are, am employed in aviation. As for the 'working' bit, well that's another story......;)

Anyone got the answer to 33 across?

I am.

Glad to see Reddo in a good job at last :D

Sssshhhhhh Standard. Don't tell them that.

Count me in, been in Avaition for 35 years, maybe I'll get an honest job someday.

Con-pilot

Amen, brother!:ok: You and me both. I just want a job where I'm not shot at - Airlines would be nice...

Being shot at is character forming !!

Ah well SRT just remember that when one is shot at it is not necessarily always a projectile that one is shot at with.:E

Yeah CJ,
Plash one brudda, it godda APU. :D

For just over 24 hours I still am. Official retirement date Feb. 1st.

Lon More, here since before Pontius was a Pilot or Mortus a Rigger

No, not working in the industry, just paying money quite regularly to use the facilities..
Would quite liked a job 'though till I found out I couldn't work a big watch.

I do, except that I am off, sick, at the moment. Groundcrew but a ppl.

Mike W

Happy retirement Lon More- will you miss it ?

Hands up, on the ground, but definitely an airline (at least I think thats what the management are playing at). :}

Yep, 30 years (but not flying) and still managing to hang on tightly.

Thirty two years and still wondering if I'll be found out and have to get a real job.

I get paid as full-time, permanent airfield staff... but I wouldn't call it 'work'. :ok:

Yep, 15 years on the ground, a few wrong turns aside I seem to finally be moving the right way on the career ladder...

PHX

Nope, I'm one of those that probably should'nt be in here..

They don't seem to mind though! :O

Count me in as a yes!
Since 1981 - (1979 if you count the RAF) -should get a real job one day, then I think
why the :mad:

I have been employed in ATC for 34 years with the last 28 of them at my present unit.
And guess what? I still love it.
I can also retire in five years on a full pension if I feel like it. :ok:

Yup, that would be me in!....

Still having fun aswell:D:E

18 years in ATC, best job there is. :ok:

Yup, I am in aviation too.

Still looking for a proper job. :p

42 years and out as of last year, managing to avoid gear ups and or any wrinkled aluminium/fabric, for which I give thanks and am truly gratefull.:ok:

Interesting how many non-aviators knock pilots in general, then stick their hands up for inclusion in the aviation industry. Ironic.

EG ATC, catering, ops, crewing, maintenance, etc........

"Yep, I'm working in aviation!!!!! Bloody pilots... "

"Aviation" Industry. Let's not forget it.

Yup! Since 1959. Cor, that makes me ....er.........OLD!:uhoh:

Interesting point of view there, my mono-testicled matey. I take it you don't view Air Traffic Control as being part of the aviation industry then. Not sure of how many people, including me, would agree with that. Why don't you head over to the ATC forum and mention that.

Well I do earn a crust writing about things wot fly, the folks wot fly them and the companies wot own them but I dunno if that makes me part of the industry though.

No Jerricho don't send him over our way yet, I haven't got the Bren gun set up!

We could always just set the real Bren on him. I'm sure HD would love that one. ;)

Was in aviation, went to get a proper job, got one, kept changing it slightly until my proper job was actually in aviation (yes such jobs do exist!). Now knee deep in aviation yet again.

Every time I've tried to leave the industry it drags me back kicking and screaming! - no not that sort of screaming sorry guys

one ball (sic!) must be one of those white gloved Nigels who reckon they don't need any of the supporting industries to execute their glorious task... :yuk:

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Who here is in the aviation industry?

I can't be in the aviation industry for I am in the living room right now.

With Professor Plum and the dagger?

TimS I actually stopped working last year (many will say long before that) I was in ATC since 1967. Yes, there were many good times, lots of good people. A few bad times, lost a few good flying mates, and things like Recklinghausen have of course changed the job for ever. Unfortunately the present management culture leaves little room for the individual. On balance I miss the people, but not what the job has become.
Plenty of time now to mow the lawn!!

Many years in the 'aviation industry' (back when Heathrow was still called London Airport); now elsewhere in the transportation business. Haven't yet decided what I want to do when I grow up.

JC

In the 1940s, 20 hours of flying lessons would have been enough to get you into the cockpit of a Spitfire. In the early 21st Century, about the same number of hours would have been sufficient to ensure a place in aviation history (WTC).

OK, I realise that the Hun were responsible back in the '40s but what about more recently...? :confused: :uhoh: