Aircraft Maintenance

My experience as an aircraft mechanic in a male dominated career I have spent plenty of time mulling over whether such a topic should be published. When I say ‘male dominated’, it means that one-in-eight personnel were female. In a shop of 180 people, 24 (13%) of them were female…

A system that is entirely autonomous with no relationships with the flight management system other than consuming the data coming from this API offered by the aircraft manufacturer, API that could also allow it to take control of the flight in case of failures that it labels as being not…

The question is not how America continues her F-35 program, but how the rest of the world will pay for it. As our European friends come home and take a look at the ballooning defense budget, they too are looking at cutting back on this or that. One way or…

Aircraft maintenance job is one of indispensable job in the last century. This job is more and more needed due to the aircraft flying is increased. The history when human dreams flying in the sky like a bird. Starting by Abbas ibn Firnas (810–887) to Wright Brothers (1903) to develop…

The aircraft industry is improving more and more. Maybe we shall soon move into a world like that of the Jetsons where everybody will be flying around in craft and automobiles will be a thing of the past. We would probably still witness traffic snarls on air that would be…

Initially, this article was going to be about clients wanting terrible KPI’s, instead I’m going to talk about how KPI’s can create a toxic system of work. For context, I was consulting on a dashboard for high-level stakeholders who wanted to see how much bang for their buck they were…

Halo teman-teman, disini saya akan berbagi materi tentang pengalaman saya mengikuti Intership di salah satu perusahaan penerbangan pada bulan oktober — Desember 2018 lalu. Sebelum masuk ke materi, apakah kalian sudah pernah mendengar tentang Simulator? Simulator merupakan bentuk peniruan kondisi yang menggambarkan prilaku sesuai dengan kenyataan yang mana terdapat sebuah…

Alaska Airlines’ maintenance controllers voted to join AMFA, the largest craft-specific independent union representing aircraft mechanics — The National Mediation Board (NMB) announced this week that the Maintenance Controllers at Alaska Airlines chose to elect the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) to be their exclusive collective bargaining agent. Approximately 40 skilled and talented individuals should be accreted into AMFA through this process.