JUST PLANE CULTURE
WALK DOWN WRONG STREET.
A RANDOM By Patrick Kinane
business. The rest of the plane gazers and me are lost causes. We are diseased with an incurable ailment and the symptom (aside from gawking at a machine in the air) is job satisfac- tion. We found our calling — not too many people on this Earth can say that. Let me set the record straight. My career has not been a continuous bed of roses. My career in aviation has had its ups and downs (pun intended). We must separate job satisfaction (what we do) from work satisfaction (where
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hy did we get into aviation? Many of us were infected at a young age. Do you still look up with amazement at a fl ying aircraft? I still do after more than 50 years in this
we do it and for whom). I was almost always satisfi ed in the job, but not necessarily satisfi ed in the work. There are some crappy jobs in aviation (literally). If you are like me, then you are plagued with this
fascination for aircraft and what makes them fl y. Not to detract from the guys who fl y them — they share in the fascination as well, but ours runs deeper. We can fi x them and many of us a fl y them as well. As the saying goes, “God made aircraft mechanics so that pilots can have heroes, too.” Without an aircraft mechanic, a pilot is nothing but someone with a leather jacket and a neat pair of sunglasses.
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