A&P license
11-20-2014, 09:42 AM
#21
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Originally Posted by Yoda2
Exactly... I don't think most folks are aware that much of the heavy aircraft maintenance is performed by bands of essentially migrant workers or being accomplished out of the country...
11-20-2014, 01:50 PM
#22
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Originally Posted by bedrock
This! Yes, that is the fault of your union, just like ALPA refuses to expose the training practices and abuse that goes on at the regionals. A local Dallas news crew did go to Honduras to expose AA heavy maintenance being done by barely competent personnel who admitted in Spanish that they could not read the manuals in English and who were sending planes out with incomplete maintenance, because the shop book said the job was to be completed in X hours.
12-31-2014, 06:26 AM
#23
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Position: Avionics tech
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I've been an avionics tech for 24 years. The last 23 at the same place. I got my director of maintenance to write me a letter stating the fact of my on the job training. Kinda like a cover letter for a job application. I took it to the local FSDO and got the training approved. Now all I have to do is take the testing. All I want is my Airframe right now. The written for the general and Airframe is $150 to take at the local college, to be taken on a computer. Then the oral and practical will be another $370 for those.
01-26-2015, 09:26 PM
#25
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Perhaps mechanic certification has no value to you.
I've been using mine for several decades, sometime to supplement, sometimes full time, with good effect. It's sustained me at times, and it got me my first jet job.
Colleges grant credit for the certification toward a degree. Some employers pay pilots extra who have mechanic certification, and some require it. Many of the ones for whom I've worked have required it, and most have paid extra, as well.
I've been using mine for several decades, sometime to supplement, sometimes full time, with good effect. It's sustained me at times, and it got me my first jet job.
Colleges grant credit for the certification toward a degree. Some employers pay pilots extra who have mechanic certification, and some require it. Many of the ones for whom I've worked have required it, and most have paid extra, as well.
01-27-2015, 02:47 PM
#27
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An A&P can have some value if you are at the right place at the right time, just like having your commercial ticket. With an A&P, you can make up the experience and take a test, nobody will ever know the difference. I know a bunch of pro pilots with A&Ps, none have the required experience.
01-27-2015, 06:40 PM
#28
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Originally Posted by kevbo
With an A&P, you can make up the experience and take a test, nobody will ever know the difference.
You might not know the difference, sitting in the cockpit, with someone who uses their falsified mechanic certificate as a show piece.
I'll certainly know the difference the moment I talk to them about aviation maintenance, or see them attempt to perform.
Mechanic certification and the scope of knowledge is far more complex than what's required to obtain an ATP.
I've known pilots who falsified their experience and fraudulently gained pilot certification. I knew the difference with them, too.
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