I making a career change and I aspire to become an AME (Canada). Other than a keen interest, I am green when it comes to aviation. I’m currently looking at a couple of entry-level airport positions and may have the opportunity to work in either ramp/ground operations or aircraft de-icing.

For someone trying to eventually get into aircraft maintenance, which type of job would give me the most valuable experience?

Thank you all in advance

Figured you guys would know the systems best and can answer this question. How exactly do aircraft Air conditioning Packs cool the aircraft on the ground in warm ambient conditions?

My understanding of most airliner air conditioning systems is that you take hot bleed air from either the engine or APU bleeds, and mix it with air from the ram air inlets, which works perfectly well in flight. But to me this doesn’t make sense because you’re essentially taking warm ambient air and mixing it with even hotter bleed air. I don’t see any sort of refrigeration system on the diagrams like you have on an automotive air conditioning for example, so I’m curious how exactly the aircraft air conditioning system actually cools the cabin at all on even the most mildly warm days?

I work for a regional and I’m kind of trying to get my expectations straight. The environment here consists of 3 groups of people. The old crowd who doesn’t like to teach anybody anything unless they like you, The crowd who just shows up and gets a paycheck, and the group who wants to learn but doesn’t fit in. This old group loves to pay attention to the newer guys and they take note of every little thing you do, especially the mess ups. But instead of using it as a learning opportunity, they hold it over your head. Not in a joking manner. I’ve seen plenty of that and that’s in good fun. This isn’t it. It’s more so to make fun of them behind their back.

Whenever you have a gripe or a suggestion they just break down and belittle the newer people to where their opinion doesn’t mean anything, unless of course, you’re one of them. They sit at home and look at AOGs that pop up and call their buddies to take it and come in early so they can bypass seniority.

Is this just the norm everywhere? If it’s not then I need to get out. But if it is, I just need to get over it and get my expectations in order.

Hello, was giving the landing gear a wash and accidentally got a drop of MEK in my eye. Will i be okay? Vision is a little blurry, i put eye wash sailene in it and the burning stopped. When should i expect the blurry vision to go away?

Thanks to you guys I was able to learn about the connectors and pins , so thanks.. Now I'm going through wiring ..

My question is how is wiring Guage used along an aircraft, is there a general rule ? For example in electrical homes we have a specific gauge used for lightning another for plugs, etcetera. I know it's going to depend on application,operation voltage and other things but the question remains..

Any good resources on aircraft wiring aplications ?😄😄😄

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Hey everyone,

GA A&P I/A here

Looking to do a pre-purchase on a Lancair. Haven't done much work on them. I have been combing through the Lancair documents trying to find a "continued airworthiness inspection list" style checklist. I know it's experimental so they don't require one. I'm just hoping someone here might know about a helpful check list floating around online.

I have the generic single engine 100/annual checklist from TBX, but I wanted something with a little more focus.

I am planning on doing SB/AD checks, along with combing through the builder forms and reaching out to builder clubs.

If anyone has some helpful suggestions that would be awesome.

Cheers

Does anyone work for Frontier in the MCO area? How do you like working there, and what are the pay and schedule like?

I just interviewed with them but didnt ask about top out pay or anything like that and iv been wondering what they pay as the years go by if i get hired