Airliners-India

HAWK21M

You might just be an AME/Aircraft Mechanic If┤.

You've ever slept on the concrete under a wing.

You've ever said "Oh yes sir, it╔s supposed to look like that"

You know what JP4 or 100 octane tastes like.

You know what skydrol tastes like.

You wash your hands before you go to the restroom.

You've ever used a black grease pencil to fix an overworked tire.

You have a better bench-stock in the pockets of your coveralls then the supply system.

You've ever used a piece of safety wire as a toothpick.

You've ever been told to go get "some prop wash and a yard of flightline."

You've ever worked a 14 hour shift on an aircraft that isn't flying the next day.

You can sleep anywhere, anytime, but as soon as the engines shut down you are wide awake.

You've ever stood on wheel chocks to keep your feet dry.

You╔ve ever used dikes to trim your fingernails.

Wiped up leaks immediately prior to crew show.

Used the Aircraft AC Exhaust to keeop warm.

Sipped a cup of tea in the rain on the tarmac while the rain dilutes the tea.

Wondered where they keep finding the idiots that keep making up stupid rules.

You've ever had to defuel an aircraft an hour after refueling it.

You've used a wheel chock as a hammer.

You know more about your coworkers than your own family.

You ever wished the pilot would say "Great Airplane/no snags".

You've ever wondered why it takes a college degree to break an airplane but only a high school diploma to fix one.

You have used a wooden chock as a pillow while sleeping on a pushback tug.

You have scuba dived a lav tank to remove everything under the sun.

You have had fire lick the back of your neck after getting that inop APU FINALLY started (tub removed).

You have been blamed by the bosses for looking where you were NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LOOKING.

You think you can do nothing else than the Job you do.

Regds

MEL
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con spirito · Member Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 288 Location: Inflight

Although there are some points that I have still not done since i have just started, I completely agree with you!
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HAWK21M

stealthpilot · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1294 Location: Bangalore

hahaha nice one!
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VictorKilo · Member Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 173 Location: USA

Oh God ...Lav trucks...especially after u dump the a/c lav and find out that someone forgot to close the bottom valve after emptying the truck before u used it ...blue juice and all on the ramp....... Very Happy

@ MEL..have u really tasted skydrol...

HAWK21M · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:29 pm Post subject:

MD11Engineer · Member Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 9

HAWK21M · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject:

I can relate to both stories Jan.......I remember some 9w folks disconnecting the Hyd reservoir line on a B733,without depressurization of the reservoir & were showered with Skydrol.
We helped them to the washeroom,as we were working on the adjacent bay.They had a long shower too.

[quote="MD11Engineer ] Obviously he was the boss´s darling).

Jan[/quote]

Pity some of us still can't master that skill & end up being the bad guys.But I guess its a toss up between being a good worker or the Bosses favourite.I'd prefer the Former.
Smile

Not being a bosses favourite.Ends up being the Groups favourite oddly.

regds
MEL.
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MD11Engineer · Member Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 9

Off duty the old guy was actually quite nice and funny. The main problem was his "can do" attitude with complete disregard to the safety of himself and others, just to get a job done.
He would do jobs the rest of us refused to do due to the boss not providing safety equipment, he would do triple ghosters (working for 24+ hours straight to get an AOG back into the air, no matter if during the last 10 hours he moved and acted like a zombie, where we had told our boss after 16 hours that we would go home for some rest and would be back in 10 hours time). The problem was that the boss took the old guy as an example, basically saying that if the old man can work for 24+ hours and doesn´t need the required safety equipment, us younger ones can do so as well.

Jan

HAWK21M · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject:

con spirito · Member Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 288 Location: Inflight

Here is a poem for all the Aircraft Engineers and Technicians:
(No idea though who composed this lovely poem)

Through the history of world aviation
Many names have come to the fore
Their deeds of past in our memory will last
As they are joined by more and more.

When man first started his labour
In his quest to conquer the sky
He was a designer, mechanic then a pilot
And he built a machine that could fly.

But somehow the order got twisted
And then in the publics eye
The only man that could be seen
Was the man who knew how to fly.

Now pilots are highly trained people
And wings are not easily won
But without the work of the maintenance man
Our pilots will march with a gun.

So, when you see mighty jet aircraft
As they mark their way through the air
Remember the grease stained man
With a wrench in his hand
Is the man who put it(Aircraft) there........
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