i ride a motorcycle for a living.What are you? Roadkill? A stunt driver?
i ride a motorcycle for a living.What are you? Roadkill? A stunt driver?
I am a Personal Assistant For a Goverment Official.
I can work anywhere from 0-10 hours a day, I never know what I will be doing.
Its not tammy is it?i get the pleasure of stopping by her office some time this week
as for me? I'm a student, full time, living off the GI bill.. so living the good life with the $1300 they pay me. been looking for some part time work, but havent really looked all that hard, but I do have a work study with the local vet center (combat veteran counseling services, not animal services). I'm going after my degree in social work, so the work study is suiting
prior to this I was in the air force for 6 years as an avionics technician, after that I worked for lockheed martin on their C5 AMP project turning this
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after which the planes with upgraded avionics wait a while, until they go in for their final modification, RERP (Reliability Enhancement and Re-Engining Program). This is where they go in for the nuts of the upgrade... new, more powerful, super quiet engines... new apu's, new electrical... after all is said and done, the service life on these planes is estimated to be extended at least another 40 years. i had fun working on planes, but after taking up about 10 years of my life, i just got burnt out.
Wow, a lot of interesting jobs on here! Sadly I am a currently unemployed warehouse worker.
Whoa glass cockpit!! Is it true the displays run on radiation hardened Motorola 68000 CPUs? Do they have their own computer or does the FMC drive them? Pleeease can I come work for you!!
Theyre just MFDU's, there are several RT's that run into each one. Center MIP displays are dedicated to all things that require gas (engines, apu's hydraulics, etc), and displays can swap if need be. the pilots and co pilots all control the avionics, and all 4 displays can run both pilots and copilots avionics. the CDU's, and radio controls were all replaced as well.
My job when I worked there was in the #1 and #2 avionics bays... so I literally had the nuts of the job... I had to rewire almost every radio and navigation RT on the plane.
It was definately a fun and rewarding job... nothing better than going into power on phase and seeing all your hard work come to life. and when the plane flys for the first time, you gain an extreme sense of pride. We had a small team, only 40 people at most, and only 30 electricians, so everyone had a big part in completing the modifications... and when we all do it in under 11,000 man hours, makes it even more impressive.
If you are serious about wanting to do it, there is an AMP team in California at Travis AFB, and a team in Delaware at Dover AFB. I worked at Travis and know everyone there well... I could probably get you a phone number... keep an eye on the lockheed martin careers website, there is a relatively high turnaround in the AMP teams.