Pilot to Mechanic Communication... Magman007 and NTN... this is for you.

[Vex]

well um. Im sorry you were a grease monkey!

ok, though, you have to realize, in this great state of Kansas, your typical amt student, isnt the brightest bulb in the bunch. Some of these guys are really sharp. notice i said some...

The point is, I'm not, nor was I ever, a grease monkey. I worked on avionics, specifically aircraft defensive systems. However, because I made sure that my systems always worked, I was able to help the crew chiefs, the knuckledraggers, and the grease monkeys with their stuff--which, I'm glad I did. It gave me a better understanding of the aircraft. It's amazing how much respect you can have for something when you know all about it.

I'm not knocking pilots (mostly). The pay is decent, some get paid better than others; like private/corporate pilots. Great pay, but your life belongs to your employer. You are on-call 24/7 and must be ready to go at a moments notice. I was stationed with a guy whose brother did that. He made all kinds of $$$, but it was at the sacrifice of any personal life. Which, is probably okay for a few years anyway.
I don't agree that pilots need the ego though. I think that should be reserved for combat pilots only...and even then...

Just don't ever forget, that as a pilot, you will ALWAYS need mech techs. However, mechs will always need pilots to break stuff as well:
"How come the UHF doesn't work in Official (OFF) mode?"

[ntn4502]

haha those are some good ones,

on a related note, some mechanics are pricks that I believe have death wishes for me(landing is not the time to figure out the sticky brakes have not been fixed)

[Caffiend]

pfffft, you don't need brakes to land, you can land just fine without them...but stopping could be a problem, just aim for the mechanic that "fixed" them

[Vex]

haha those are some good ones,

on a related note, some mechanics are pricks that I believe have death wishes for me(landing is not the time to figure out the sticky brakes have not been fixed)

Just remember that every take off is optional. It's landing that's required.

[Ole Unka Phil]

At the practice I worked for many years ago we had a code for owners that were none to pleasant so as to warn the staff of the owners demeanor just like we would write a warning on the patients card if it was a fractious Animal. We used the capital letters AH with a circle around it up in the left hand corner of the patients card. This indicated it was the owners earned rating.... guess what that "AH" means?


So If you ever take your animal to the Veterinariian and see a littlle circle with an AH in it up on the corner of the card....

[Mango]

This is older than the Automag and quite fake. Funny to read though.

[BlackVCG]

Now im a truck mehcanic for a living and found that REALLY funny. I see that kinda stuff all the time.


DVCR's (driver vehical corection requests) have me :rofl: sometimes. Very similare to the above . Trust me that kinda stuff is real.

And as for the pilots being able to fix it im not shure but if ya anything like the truck drivers and bus drivers i deal with SMART is the LAST word that would come to mind.

And the saying i love. "if you bought it a TRUCK brought it and without mehcanics you aint getting SQUAT".

What trucks do you work on?

As an engineer in the commercial truck industry it's kinda funny to go on the shop floor to take a look at some stuff and chat with the assembly line workers. For the most part everyone is nice and respects you being an engineer, but there are some that think they're gods gift to knowledge of the truck and all engineers are idiots.

[Vex]

What trucks do you work on?

As an engineer in the commercial truck industry it's kinda funny to go on the shop floor to take a look at some stuff and chat with the assembly line workers. For the most part everyone is nice and respects you being an engineer, but there are some that think they're gods gift to knowledge of the truck and all engineers are idiots.

What? It's never the hardware's fault...are you kidding? It's ALWAYS software...damn engineers...

[Bear_Claw]

I work for a leasing/rental (Ryder) company. Mainly run Freightliners and Internationals Fords and Sterlings. But we have a SMALL hand full of Peterbuilts and Macks.

And id be one to be curesing ya engineers LOL. Got no beef with ya just i gotta curse somebody when things aint going right LOL.

[hardr0ck68]

What trucks do you work on?

As an engineer in the commercial truck industry it's kinda funny to go on the shop floor to take a look at some stuff and chat with the assembly line workers. For the most part everyone is nice and respects you being an engineer, but there are some that think they're gods gift to knowledge of the truck and all engineers are idiots.

I never worked manufacturing trucks; but while i was at sentery safe the engineers got this great idea how we could save production time by spot welding the door hinges to the door (previously they were bolted). And the guys down in the steel shop started making about 30 more safes per hour; however when they got to assembly it added about 1 munute per safe for assembly.

They could build more bodies faster this way, but the engineers never thought about how fast we could build the damn things! our numbers went from 1000 per night(8 hours) to 800 per night. While the workers blamed the engineers for fragging up our processes, the company blamed the workers and started being real jerks about breaks!! And the real pile of crap is that the steel shop always produced bodies faster then the lines could assemble them, so the bottle neck was at production; what sence does it make to make more bodies that have to sit in cureing racks untill we could get to them??


For folks with degrees those engineers wernt very bright! The only thing i canthink of was they some how saved a bunch with the cheaper hinges (they seemed just as strong) but did they save enough to justify -200 units a night?