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Any Aviation guys in here? (blackhawk in general)
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<blockquote data-quote="redfiresvtsnake" data-source="post: 14067476" data-attributes="member: 41987"><p>Having worked on the 60A/L/M model Black Hawks and 60R/S model Sea Hawks, CH-53E, CH-47F, CH-46E, and the S-61N and T models, being a 60 mech will give you some great skills for the civilian world as an A&P mech. As far as the 47 giving you better skills, not sure, I don't see how, but thats me. In my experience, 13 years as a helicopter mech, 9 in the Marine Corps as a CH-53E mech, a helicopter is a helicopter is a helicopter. If you can learn to excel as a mechanic on one helicopter, you can very easily apply those skills to another helicopter from a different manufacturer by applying your skills and the maintenance manual and some common sense. Having said that, Sikorsky helicopters are the most maintenance involved and complicated helicopters I've worked on, and made it pretty easy to learn the CH46E and 47F. </p><p></p><p>There is a FAA website with a military MOS/job rate(ie 15T, 15U, etc) list that tells you if you qualify for just airframe, power plant, or both, based solely on your military experience. </p><p></p><p>Scroll to the last few pages in the link below to view the list.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://fsims.faa.gov/wdocs/8900.1/v05%20airman%20cert/chapter%2005/05_005_002rev1.pdf" target="_blank">http://fsims.faa.gov/wdocs/8900.1/v05 airman cert/chapter 05/05_005_002rev1.pdf</a>.</p><p></p><p> If you work as a 15T long enough, you can take your DD214 or a letter from your maintenance officer to the FAA FSDO, go through an interview, and if you sound like you know what you are talking about when asked some questions, you'll get your 8610 forms that authorize you to take the 3 A&P written tests and practical exam. From there you can attend a short A&P prep course like I did at Baker's School of Aeronautics in Nashville, or a similar course. </p><p></p><p>Granted I've never been paid $4k to work 4 days, I do get about $150k per yr at my current job working for DynCorp as a contractor in Afghanistan on a U.S. State Dept contract as a helicopter A&P mech in Kabul, on a 90 on 30 off schedule. PHI and ERA in the Gulf of Mex can pay $60-80k per yr working 6 months out of the year on a 14 on 14 off work schedule. </p><p></p><p>The only thing I like doing more that working with helicopters is flying them. And believe it or not, in the civilian helicopter sector you have to be a pretty experienced pilot to make considerably more than a well qualified and experienced A&P mech, because the pilot side is a pretty competitive career field with more pilots than there are jobs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="redfiresvtsnake, post: 14067476, member: 41987"] Having worked on the 60A/L/M model Black Hawks and 60R/S model Sea Hawks, CH-53E, CH-47F, CH-46E, and the S-61N and T models, being a 60 mech will give you some great skills for the civilian world as an A&P mech. As far as the 47 giving you better skills, not sure, I don't see how, but thats me. In my experience, 13 years as a helicopter mech, 9 in the Marine Corps as a CH-53E mech, a helicopter is a helicopter is a helicopter. If you can learn to excel as a mechanic on one helicopter, you can very easily apply those skills to another helicopter from a different manufacturer by applying your skills and the maintenance manual and some common sense. Having said that, Sikorsky helicopters are the most maintenance involved and complicated helicopters I've worked on, and made it pretty easy to learn the CH46E and 47F. There is a FAA website with a military MOS/job rate(ie 15T, 15U, etc) list that tells you if you qualify for just airframe, power plant, or both, based solely on your military experience. Scroll to the last few pages in the link below to view the list. [url]http://fsims.faa.gov/wdocs/8900.1/v05%20airman%20cert/chapter%2005/05_005_002rev1.pdf[/url]. If you work as a 15T long enough, you can take your DD214 or a letter from your maintenance officer to the FAA FSDO, go through an interview, and if you sound like you know what you are talking about when asked some questions, you'll get your 8610 forms that authorize you to take the 3 A&P written tests and practical exam. From there you can attend a short A&P prep course like I did at Baker's School of Aeronautics in Nashville, or a similar course. Granted I've never been paid $4k to work 4 days, I do get about $150k per yr at my current job working for DynCorp as a contractor in Afghanistan on a U.S. State Dept contract as a helicopter A&P mech in Kabul, on a 90 on 30 off schedule. PHI and ERA in the Gulf of Mex can pay $60-80k per yr working 6 months out of the year on a 14 on 14 off work schedule. The only thing I like doing more that working with helicopters is flying them. And believe it or not, in the civilian helicopter sector you have to be a pretty experienced pilot to make considerably more than a well qualified and experienced A&P mech, because the pilot side is a pretty competitive career field with more pilots than there are jobs. [/QUOTE]
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