HELICOPTER ACQUISITION
Remember to have justification for your requests and show that what you need is the best way to make your department more efficient and safer. It’s never easy to have to go back later and ask for more money after the fact.
How will this affect technicians and their families? Training is required but does not happen in an instant. Typically, the average manufacturer’s initial training course is two weeks long. Each additional module can be another one to two weeks in length. Depending on the training needed, a technician can spend up to five weeks of training away from the shop and their family. As much as we want all our technicians to have the most experience, it’s important to our troops to consider their families. What I did was to schedule techs that didn’t have as many concerns or family considerations to go for training together, and for longer periods of time, and worked with the other techs that had other obligations and considerations.
Do we have the correct tooling needed to support new aircraft? Have a plan in place to detail what is needed and why to support the new aircraft and keep it in service. What seemed to work for me was a plan where I budgeted for different tooling needs in the following intervals: need now, need in three months and need in six months. This seemed to go over well with accounting since the tooling acquisitions were spread out and not purchased all at once. This is also a place where you can try and get the manufacturer to either give you tooling or at least get a discount on provisional purchases. It’s also a prime time to budget for things you never had or needed before.
Lessons learned With all the planning and all the different departments involved, there were lessons learned along the way. Here are some I encountered:
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