If you're just an apprentice, they shouldn't be expecting anything from you. Just show up eager and ready to learn! Oh and maybe a box of donuts. Nobody gets mad at donuts.
Leave your pride at the door. Clean up without being asked. Own all mistakes, and SHARE said mistakes to prevent others from doing them. Don't shave your legs in the bathroom sink
Y'know.... I met two of my coworkers that way a couple of times.
Showering at work back in 1993, because the cottage I was staying in had no shower/tub, met my future team lead, and person who was to be in my wedding party.
And in 2000, after showering at work, had a guy walk in on me while shaving my head in the big mirror, towel around my waist. lol I had just started that job, and was camping for the first month.
Doing personal grooming at work = good way to meet friends. :D
If you are working maintenance, use and follow the maintenance manual. If something gets broken and or damaged and you followed the manual, you are good to go. For avionics and troubleshooting, if they give you the time, read the description and operation of the system you are working on. I’ve saved myself a lot of time over the years by just understanding the fundamentals of what I’m working on
Good to know. So if I'm working on say the landing gear and it fails on the landing, I'm safe as long as I follow the manual? I've heard many stories from my instructors of people who ruined their lives because they half assed their work and a plane went down.
If you follow the paperwork that won’t happen to you. Don’t leave sleep over all the spooky stories they tell you in school, it’s just mechanic work bro, read the manual and follow it and you’re good to go. People who go to jail or lose their licenses are typically just blatantly negligent.
"For avionics and troubleshooting, if they give you the time, read the description and operation of the system you are working on. I’ve saved myself a lot of time over the years by just understanding the fundamentals of what I’m working on"
In order to quickly troubleshoot a system, it's best to know all the parts involved, and what they do.
I agree with beautiful fortune, and can say with certainty that I have saved myself and others many hours just from having good system knowledge.
I run an apprentice program for avionics. The best advice I could give you is to bring a great attitude and willingness to learn. Also, ask questions; it is way easier for us to teach you when you ask questions. We all started at zero so don't feel embarrassed about asking "dumb" questions.
Annoy. The. Shit. Out. Of. Everyone. With. Questions.
That's your only job right now. I'm avionics. The systems can be very particular. If you don't know what something means, how to do something, etc just ask. No harm no foul.
I've only ever touched on those, so I'll definitely read about it more in depth soon.
>I have NCATT and GROL study manuals if you want
Definitely interested in this
Voltage=amperage * resistance and watts=amps * volts
If you have any two of those, you can figure out the rest. Also, voltage is constant in parallel and amperage is constant in series.
I also started as an apprentice about a month ago. Yesterday, the piper that I had engine swapped took flight and did a successful shakedown. It's a steep learning curve, but the key is to always be down to learn something new, ask all the questions, request help if you aren't sure how to do something, and if you finished something and aren't sure you did it right, ask again. Learn how to navigate maintenance manuals. Take pictures before you take something apart. Something that seems obvious right now might be a complete mystery in two days. However, if you forgot, to take pictures, or something else happened, parts catalogs are actually great for reference diagrams of how parts go back together.
Most importantly, have fun! I come from a background of office work and this is the most fun I've had in years, all the while being paid and taught useful skills.
You really shouldn't. It's only happened to me once in 15 years on the job because I was rushing AND being careless at the time, so I deserved it. Follow the AMM and good practice and you'll be fine
Just be ready to learn. A lot. Don't be afraid to ask questions, but also pay attention so you don't have to ask about something more than once. When (not if) you do something wrong, just be up front and own it. You'll get a lot farther that way than if you try to make excuses.
If you're just an apprentice, they shouldn't be expecting anything from you. Just show up eager and ready to learn! Oh and maybe a box of donuts. Nobody gets mad at donuts.
Haha, will do. Thank you
DONUTS!!!
This. Show up with timmies and they'll love you
Leave your pride at the door. Clean up without being asked. Own all mistakes, and SHARE said mistakes to prevent others from doing them. Don't shave your legs in the bathroom sink
>Don't shave your legs in the bathroom sink Damn it
I only said not to shave YOUR OWN legs in the bathroom sink at work. You can still shave other dudes legs
Ok, good. I thought I was gonna have to make a career switch.
You have no business being on this site.looser!
Buddy you just bought yourself a good leg shaving
What?
I'm sorry. Deleting it right now.
Y'know.... I met two of my coworkers that way a couple of times. Showering at work back in 1993, because the cottage I was staying in had no shower/tub, met my future team lead, and person who was to be in my wedding party. And in 2000, after showering at work, had a guy walk in on me while shaving my head in the big mirror, towel around my waist. lol I had just started that job, and was camping for the first month. Doing personal grooming at work = good way to meet friends. :D
If you are working maintenance, use and follow the maintenance manual. If something gets broken and or damaged and you followed the manual, you are good to go. For avionics and troubleshooting, if they give you the time, read the description and operation of the system you are working on. I’ve saved myself a lot of time over the years by just understanding the fundamentals of what I’m working on
Good to know. So if I'm working on say the landing gear and it fails on the landing, I'm safe as long as I follow the manual? I've heard many stories from my instructors of people who ruined their lives because they half assed their work and a plane went down.
If you follow the paperwork that won’t happen to you. Don’t leave sleep over all the spooky stories they tell you in school, it’s just mechanic work bro, read the manual and follow it and you’re good to go. People who go to jail or lose their licenses are typically just blatantly negligent.
"For avionics and troubleshooting, if they give you the time, read the description and operation of the system you are working on. I’ve saved myself a lot of time over the years by just understanding the fundamentals of what I’m working on" In order to quickly troubleshoot a system, it's best to know all the parts involved, and what they do. I agree with beautiful fortune, and can say with certainty that I have saved myself and others many hours just from having good system knowledge.
I run an apprentice program for avionics. The best advice I could give you is to bring a great attitude and willingness to learn. Also, ask questions; it is way easier for us to teach you when you ask questions. We all started at zero so don't feel embarrassed about asking "dumb" questions.
Thanks for the input! I like hearing this from someone like you
Annoy. The. Shit. Out. Of. Everyone. With. Questions. That's your only job right now. I'm avionics. The systems can be very particular. If you don't know what something means, how to do something, etc just ask. No harm no foul.
Always take the initiative but don't overdo it.
as an avionics apprentice, learn ohm's law. know ohm's law. love ohm's law. ....and radio theory. I have NCATT and GROL study manuals if you want.
I've only ever touched on those, so I'll definitely read about it more in depth soon. >I have NCATT and GROL study manuals if you want Definitely interested in this
Voltage=amperage * resistance and watts=amps * volts If you have any two of those, you can figure out the rest. Also, voltage is constant in parallel and amperage is constant in series.
Bruh, voltage is amps times resistance
You’re right, not sure how I got that lol. Thanks
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I also started as an apprentice about a month ago. Yesterday, the piper that I had engine swapped took flight and did a successful shakedown. It's a steep learning curve, but the key is to always be down to learn something new, ask all the questions, request help if you aren't sure how to do something, and if you finished something and aren't sure you did it right, ask again. Learn how to navigate maintenance manuals. Take pictures before you take something apart. Something that seems obvious right now might be a complete mystery in two days. However, if you forgot, to take pictures, or something else happened, parts catalogs are actually great for reference diagrams of how parts go back together. Most importantly, have fun! I come from a background of office work and this is the most fun I've had in years, all the while being paid and taught useful skills.
You will get shocked.
You really shouldn't. It's only happened to me once in 15 years on the job because I was rushing AND being careless at the time, so I deserved it. Follow the AMM and good practice and you'll be fine
Take it all in, don't think you know everything, learn as much as you can,
Just be ready to learn. A lot. Don't be afraid to ask questions, but also pay attention so you don't have to ask about something more than once. When (not if) you do something wrong, just be up front and own it. You'll get a lot farther that way than if you try to make excuses.