Skills shortage?
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FLS has found the perfect way to keep engineers! One of them there passed his JAR66 license and asked if FLS would contribute to the cost. The reply was no, due to the fact that FLS did not need JAR66. Also if they encouraged their staff to obtain JAR66 ,the staff would become more attractive to other employees!!
By discouraging their engineers from obtaining JAR66 means they will have to work on grandfather rights. Hence become of no use to other companies who are working towards the total JAR66 goal.
How fantastically clever of them...Now that's good man management!!
By discouraging their engineers from obtaining JAR66 means they will have to work on grandfather rights. Hence become of no use to other companies who are working towards the total JAR66 goal.
How fantastically clever of them...Now that's good man management!!
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Hi guys,
What about the repair stations that use farmers and convicts to do maintenance on aircraft? I'm very familiar with an airline that out-sources their heavy mx. At one location, they use felons from the local prison to do some of the work. How can us AMT's compete with this cheap labor source?
If the flying public found out about what goes on in those places, i.e. minimum acceptable standards, crappy work and items being overlooked because of the cost factor, we would be in a world of hurt.
Have you ever seen safety wire used as a wire-tie on a bundle? I've had the horror to see that with my own eyes...
Untill the goverments force certified repair stations to use ONLY licensed technicians, I'm afraid we'll continue to see the effects of shade-tree mechanics
And we wonder why our wages are low???
For the life of me I don't understand why airlines offer contacts to repair stations who submit the "lowest bid". Bean counters are so short-sighted that they only see the direct costs vs. delays and us guys having to nearly re-do the heavy check on re-delivery to the airline because of the s%#%@ the scumbag outfits put out.
When I worked at a major, we spent many many hours working the heavy checks and when they delivered, they were producing revenue on a consistant basis from the moment they took off on the first scheduled trip. Ok, on occasion we would have a glitch here and there, but nothing on the scale I have seen from third party operations
Anyone at the majors wanna help a poor sod out with some job info?
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What about the repair stations that use farmers and convicts to do maintenance on aircraft? I'm very familiar with an airline that out-sources their heavy mx. At one location, they use felons from the local prison to do some of the work. How can us AMT's compete with this cheap labor source?
If the flying public found out about what goes on in those places, i.e. minimum acceptable standards, crappy work and items being overlooked because of the cost factor, we would be in a world of hurt.
Have you ever seen safety wire used as a wire-tie on a bundle? I've had the horror to see that with my own eyes...
Untill the goverments force certified repair stations to use ONLY licensed technicians, I'm afraid we'll continue to see the effects of shade-tree mechanics
And we wonder why our wages are low???
For the life of me I don't understand why airlines offer contacts to repair stations who submit the "lowest bid". Bean counters are so short-sighted that they only see the direct costs vs. delays and us guys having to nearly re-do the heavy check on re-delivery to the airline because of the s%#%@ the scumbag outfits put out.
When I worked at a major, we spent many many hours working the heavy checks and when they delivered, they were producing revenue on a consistant basis from the moment they took off on the first scheduled trip. Ok, on occasion we would have a glitch here and there, but nothing on the scale I have seen from third party operations
Anyone at the majors wanna help a poor sod out with some job info?
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Go to the www.nwa.com website and burrow around for job info. By the time your application is processed, we should have a contract. It might even compensate for experience.
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In Aus...QF is currently sending a group of 17 to NZ, SAfrica, Ireland, HK just to interview and hire LAME and uLAME (or whatever u want to call it) because of the lack of skill coming to the industry.
The skill shortage exists (in my humble opinion) with short term bonuses being paid to "Senior" management, who find things like training and apprentices easy pickings to make savings in their area...and therefore bonuses in their pockets.
Short term solutions = Long term problems
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If you're going out into the blue, be sure your engines got more mj2
The skill shortage exists (in my humble opinion) with short term bonuses being paid to "Senior" management, who find things like training and apprentices easy pickings to make savings in their area...and therefore bonuses in their pockets.
Short term solutions = Long term problems
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If you're going out into the blue, be sure your engines got more mj2
