KC10 FATboy

NEDude, I absolutely agree with you. Everyone in the chain of safety should be held accountabe. If you are a maintenance worker and you perform shoddy work, you should be held liable. This goes for supervisors who sign off on the work. And then, there is management. Good luck in ever proving that management is cupable. But yes, if they are responsible, fry them too.

JetDoc, I'm glad you were able to turn your situation around. However, hearing about your situation worries me. We are losing the industrial skills which made this country great. The guys like you with the skills you grew up with, no offense here, are dinasours. The 20 something generations are growing up completely without the skills that were once the norm in technical and votech schools. Why? Several reasons. Most parents expect their kids to go to school. Jobs in those fields are slowing fading overseas. Computers, are dominating every field now.

Hopefully AA's problems are just an isolated incident. We can't allow out companies to put unsafe aircraft into the air.

Tony Nelson

Could not agree more with your assessment of the FAA.

JetDoc

No offense taken FATboy, not quite a dinosaur yet at 43 but I understand your point, the skills that made this country great are slowly disappearing. I was very fortunate to be young enough and to have the finances to make the career change I did (I am carrying no debt for my training) but at the same time not smart enough to get out of aviation all together .

Buckethead

Yes, computers are dominating every field now. But guess where most American technical services and support jobs are located? You guessed it:
not in America. In 2003 I was "down-sized" with 11 other American colleagues.
3 months later we were replaced with jobs located off-shore working for less salary and no benefits.

Outsourcing is the number one reason, in my book anyway, why the employment situation is the way it is in this country.

ewrbasedpilot

I had one grounded by the FAA a while back because their was a "lipstick kiss" print on the registration certificate in the cockpit. The FAA rep said the plane would go no where till the registration in the door had been replaced with a "non defaced" one. Amazing.......and then they wonder why we can't make any money. I wonder if the CA who took the plane after it was signed off made an announcement to the passengers that the airplane had been deemed "non airworthy" because of some pathetic non-sense that the FAA deemed important. Amazing..........

bleedairpacks

MX is as ****ed a the pilots these days at AA. My buddy refused a widebody for international flight and they had to kick the 250 pax off the flight and ground the a/c. Operations told them to take the plane to LAX cause they had a spare and by the time they got there it went 'mechanical'. What a mess.

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