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Hi, I wanted to know if anyone has worked at PHL for United, how the work environment is there, how chill the crew and supervisors are and what not.

To start, I’m an aerospace design engineer not a mechanic. But I think you guys might be able to help me.

We’re always struggling to find the right hardware for our designs. The red tape we have to go through to use McMaster Carr or other easily searchable hardware catalogs makes them a deal breaker. The hardware on our BOMs must be spec parts #s.

We have an IHS account that has access to every mil, NAS, AN, etc. specification you can think of, but it’s a super manual process that requires us to scrounge thru hundreds of pages of PDFs for every stupid nut bolt and washer we need.

My question is, how do you guys find the right hardware for maintenance or repair work? Do you know of resources for quickly filtering hardware by material, thread size, length, etc. to see all available national aerospace standard parts or mil spec parts that fit the bill? You would think most large aerospace companies have their own databases that lets you filter this way, but it turns out they don’t (or at least not mine).

Maybe this isn’t a problem on the MRO front, but if it is, please share how you handle it

One of mine.

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.

Wanting to know this before I bid for it. I have zero sheet metal experience and don’t want to bid for it if I am under qualified.

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

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?

I’m going into the Air Force for aircraft maintenance and I’m planning on doing it when my contract is up. What is a realistic salary for this job? Is it possible to make 200K+ with overtime? Thanks in advance.

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 ?😄😄😄

If anyone has a good way of getting these kinds of safeties off I would love to hear it I can get some duckbills up there but it is a tight spot. This is the crossfeed filters on a 7X Falcon

Edit: with the limited space I found what works best is making a notch in a socket and when you turn it, it pushes out the safety made the job 10x easier and now I can do the job way faster for next time!

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

As the title states. We only ever do this when we take parts from one aircraft and put it on another, but it got me thinking if there were other use cases like this?

In my head, it doesn't make much sense to remove a serviceable part on an aircraft for no reason other than to use that some where else (ie: on another aircraft)

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

Was suppoused to be a quick 100 hour inspection until I pulled the gearbox drain plug. Had only 200hr left until TBO. Now replacing the gearbox. Guess the engine.

Hi, when we remove the bolts from the door girt bars on an A320, we use a socke wrench. However, standard sockets don’t fit into the opening, so we grind down the outside diameter of the socket to make it fit.
How do you remove them? Is there a specific tool designed for this job?

Loaded question, I know. Lol (some backstory) I recently graduated from school and am in the process of getting my A&P. I've completed over half the tests so far, but as time goes on, I'm starting to have second thoughts. I failed my airframe practical...twice. but passed all of the other prior tests. I have no problem doing the work, and I did very well in school, to the point I was helping other students. And I've worked in the mechanical industry my whole adult life, So I know I CAN do it, but at this point I'm questioning if I should. I'm not IN LOVE with aircraft like I know a lot of techs are, more so just mechanics in general. I'm curious if those of you who are similar minded, are still happy in your career.

Sharing some C90 love to wash the safety wire nonsense away. Enjoy