What’s causing all the dropped wheels?
09-03-2024 | 02:53 PM
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Well if it’s like Pilot jobs, I’d guess being a MX technician at the big airlines would be the place to be. A lot of airlines are giving bonuses for experienced A&Ps right now. Just like senior pilots, a lot of the senior MX supervisors and techs have retired . So now you have a 3 year mechanics supervising multiple fleets. I think it’s disingenuous to try and blame everything on DEI.
not to mention in GA they don’t have to work graveyard shift
09-03-2024 | 03:46 PM
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Wouldnt be an issue now if they (not just DAL, but all airlines) hadn't incentivized them to take early outs during COVID knowing damn well it would bounce back quickly.
09-03-2024 | 05:26 PM
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Mmmm. 757 (DL) had a nose gear tire fall off on taxi out in ATL, UA 777 in Mar at SFO, UA 757 @ LAX in Jul, not to mention two mx guys killed in the DL tire shop I just can't remember a spate of tire related problems like this. I know the FAA was looking into this but haven't heard anything official or otherwise.
Rumors are that tire shop incident was a momentary lapse in procedures of trying to take wheel arpart before deflating it.
Just last year, a ramper was struck and severly hit by a lav truck on the ramp.
It's a dangerous business that mostly operates safely, but mistakes and inattention can be deadly.
09-04-2024 | 08:13 AM
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If they knew damn well it would bounce back quickly why did they offer early outs? Heck any pilot who knew that should be able to retire off inestments made at the bottom! I don't even recall much forum sentiment for a quick recovery. Most was doom and gloom!
09-04-2024 | 01:26 PM
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I agree. Lots of places were incentivizing the early retiring of their people within three years of regular retirement to save money - US Government money even. And when the COVID caused stoppages proved not nearly that enduring, they've been struggling ever since having sent the prime of their corporate memory packing. That hurt a number of different organizations - a large aerospace firm beginning with a "B" and ending with an "oeing" coming rather vividly to mind.
09-04-2024 | 02:26 PM
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09-04-2024 | 05:28 PM
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I'm very active in GA and actually my local mx shop has told me the opposite.. They can't keep mechanics... People are fleeing to the airlines because they can command much better compensation...
09-08-2024 | 08:46 AM
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Virtually all wheel departures are due a failure of the wheel hub. The wheel nut, safety bolts, wheel bearings and spacers are all found on the axle post flight. This is primarily due a failure during the NDT inspection proccess, or lack thereof, when the wheel assembly is removed and sent for tire replacement. I can not speak for other airlines but L-UAL had a state of the art tire and brake shop at the MOC in SFO for decades. The wheel came off the aircraft, sent to SFO and was overhauled, including NDT inspection of the wheel halves by UAL mechanics. That shop was closed and the work farmed out to the lowest bidder in the early 2000's during bankruptcy. Infer from this what you will.
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