Author Topic: The future of jobs is aviation! (Read 4672 times)

MillCreek · « **on:** October 07, 2013, 08:27:06 AM »

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/10/07/228886436/wanted-a-new-generation-of-high-tech-aviation-workers?ft=1&f=1001

Just don't go starting up one of those unions, like they have at Boeing in Seattle!

RevDisk · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2013, 11:39:06 AM »

Except be aware that the aviation industry is requires folks to be VERY mobile and also is faced with huge number of layoffs. The industry is very cyclical. If you're mobile enough, it doesn't really matter. Manufacturing may go down, repair tends to go up.

Pay is good, just have to be willing to go to it.

MillCreek · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2013, 11:54:53 AM »

^^ And it has been ever thus. My dad was an aerospace engineer at Boeing for 40 years: 1950-1990. He worked in Renton, Seattle, New Orleans and Florida's Space Coast and survived the layoffs of the 60's and 70's. My sister has been at Boeing for 20 years and she has worked all over the Puget Sound area.

Tallpine · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2013, 12:48:03 PM »

Yeah, and it helps if you are born in India too

RevDisk · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2013, 12:50:35 PM »

Quote from: Tallpine on October 07, 2013, 12:48:03 PM

Yeah, and it helps if you are born in India too

Sikorsky is outsourcing S-92 main cabin work to Tata Advanced Systems Limited in India. The US plant was extremely safe and quality was of the highest order. Photos from TASL are enough to convince me to never fly in an S-92 with any of their cabins. There's going to have to be an insane amount of rework in order for the things to be flight worthy. Quality was crap, manufacturing environment was crap, safety was crap, etc.

Fly320s · « **Reply #5 on:** October 07, 2013, 12:51:03 PM »

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Quote from: Tallpine on October 07, 2013, 12:48:03 PM

Yeah, and it helps if you are born in India too

Unless you want to be a pilot. Then you have to be intelligent and handsome.

Tallpine · « **Reply #6 on:** October 07, 2013, 12:56:27 PM »

Quote from: Fly320s on October 07, 2013, 12:51:03 PM

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Unless you want to be a pilot. Then you have to be intelligent and handsome.

I thought all you needed was to be able to swivel your head all around.

RevDisk · « **Reply #7 on:** October 07, 2013, 01:05:48 PM »

Quote from: Fly320s on October 07, 2013, 12:51:03 PM

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Unless you want to be a pilot. Then you have to be intelligent and handsome.

Wrench lead, wrenches, flight crew, design engineers and last pilots. That is the order of common sense, and the order of folks you question to get real information.

I know many pilot jokes, but I only know two that are not fairly obscene.
"How do you know if someone is a Naval Aviator? ... Wait five seconds and he'll tell you."
"Piloting used to be a real job. Now, the pilot feeds the computer, and the computer bites the pilot if he touches anything."

Fly320s · « **Reply #8 on:** October 07, 2013, 08:54:57 PM »

Quote from: Tallpine on October 07, 2013, 12:56:27 PM

I thought all you needed was to be able to swivel your head all around.

Not a requirement, just a bonus.

Quote from: RevDisk on October 07, 2013, 01:05:48 PM

I know many pilot jokes, but I only know two that are not fairly obscene.

I want to hear the obscene ones.

Phantom Warrior · « **Reply #9 on:** October 07, 2013, 08:58:26 PM »

Quote from: RevDisk on October 07, 2013, 01:05:48 PM

I know many pilot jokes, but I only know two that are not fairly obscene.
"How do you know if someone is a Naval Aviator? ... Wait five seconds and he'll tell you."
"Piloting used to be a real job. Now, the pilot feeds the computer, and the computer bites the pilot if he touches anything."

What's the difference between God and a fighter pilot?
God doesn't think he's a fighter pilot...

Tallpine · « **Reply #10 on:** October 07, 2013, 09:08:07 PM »

What is the difference between a pilot and a jet engine?

A jet engine stops whining soon after landing.

Gewehr98 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 07, 2013, 09:44:05 PM »

How can you tell which one is a fighter pilot at the bar?

His watch is on fire.

MillCreek · « **Reply #12 on:** October 07, 2013, 09:55:42 PM »

Quote from: Tallpine on October 07, 2013, 09:08:07 PM

What is the difference between a pilot and a jet engine?

A jet engine stops whining soon after landing.

Snort!

Fly320s · « **Reply #13 on:** October 07, 2013, 10:00:24 PM »

Anyone have any good jokes? Or new jokes?

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #14 on:** October 07, 2013, 10:11:57 PM »

All I know about flying is that there are way more airplanes on the bottom of the ocean than there are submarines stuck up in the sky.

Tallpine · « **Reply #15 on:** October 07, 2013, 10:16:54 PM »

Quote from: Fly320s on October 07, 2013, 10:00:24 PM

Anyone have any good jokes? Or new jokes?

The joke is that software that flies your airplane for you

AJ Dual · « **Reply #16 on:** October 08, 2013, 11:41:27 AM »

I thought it was "Plastics".

Fitz · « **Reply #17 on:** October 08, 2013, 11:49:35 AM »

Quote from: Tallpine on October 07, 2013, 10:16:54 PM

The joke is that software that flies your airplane for you

Maintenence form: "Auto-land function very rough today"

Technician response on the form "This aircraft not equipped with auto-land."

Tallpine · « **Reply #18 on:** October 08, 2013, 11:51:01 AM »

Airlines have really changed, now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant.

Fly320s · « **Reply #19 on:** October 08, 2013, 12:00:03 PM »

Quote from: Tallpine on October 07, 2013, 10:16:54 PM

The joke is that software that flies your airplane for you

And designs airplanes for you.

Scout26 · « **Reply #20 on:** October 08, 2013, 12:12:00 PM »

Air Force Motto: "We have a 100% Perfect Record! We haven't left one up there yet !!!"

AJ Dual · « **Reply #21 on:** October 08, 2013, 12:17:12 PM »

Quote from: scout26 on October 08, 2013, 12:12:00 PM

Air Force Motto: "We have a 100% Perfect Record! We haven't left one up there yet !!!"

I told a friend who's son is a member of the CAP, and is getting flying lessons that way, soloing at 15-16 etc. through them. She didn't think it was as funny as I did.

Tallpine · « **Reply #22 on:** October 08, 2013, 01:30:04 PM »

Quote from: Fly320s on October 08, 2013, 12:00:03 PM

And designs airplanes for you.

What could go worng?

BryanP · « **Reply #23 on:** October 08, 2013, 10:34:47 PM »

What do fighter pilots use for birth control? Their personalities.

Tallpine · « **Reply #24 on:** October 09, 2013, 10:22:45 AM »

All seriousness aside, are there any other industries besides airlines and medicine that go out of their way to make life unpleasant for their customers ?

News:

Author Topic: The future of jobs is aviation! (Read 4672 times)