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Old 23rd Nov 2020, 22:52
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Rigga
 
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After my meagre training, I started working on Whirlwind Helicopters (S55T for A&Ps) on a Hangar “Rectification Team” and when found to be of sufficient standard, I was pushed out to do Line maintenance - a job I thoroughly enjoyed. However, because I’d been in the hangar for that short period I was the only person on the Line with experience of re-hanging cabin doors that had been erroneously ejected! Kudos from my seniors and superiors!
In a career of more than 45 years, I have done line, hangar and bay work (and now lots of office work too) to gain quite some depth as to how fixed wing and rotary aircraft work and how to manage them. In my view, any work on aircraft or their components is challenging purely because of its implications - and to complete any period without incident or accident is deserving of QUIET self-congratulation. But you’re still waiting for the next problem....
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