Here are some tips. How do you hold yourself and
how you come across to your work mates, crew chief, chief inspector or director of maintenance (DOM)? Do you show your intelligence? Are you respectful? Why would someone hire you? Are you worthy of our wage? Do you provide a service or an attitude? Are you a good communicator? Do you do your best work every day? Do you take opportunities to learn and grow? Are you keeping up with the industry? Do you contribute to the growth and learning of everyone in the shop? Do you take pride in keeping your space and shop clean and tidy, making your work environment professional looking and easier to work in? Do you have a professional appearance? Then an alternate reality hits. Do you stand up for
yourself, with the burden of responsibility that carries, for aircraft safety? Do you demand fair compensation for what you do and how you do it? After all, you represent yourself in the employment marketplace. How are you with regulations? Do you view them as an authoritarian hardship or as a guide and a system for flight safety? Can you stand and hold the power that the regulations give you without abusing them? How will you walk the inevitable line when money decisions and schedule considerations affect your work — when they can make your job harder and take longer to do, or do over, or they may start to bend the line of legality and safety, even to the point of challenging your personal integrity and reputation? For example, you’re doing the airframe de-ice system check on a Falcon 900B. Your company hasn’t supplied you with the breakout box that Falcon requires for this check. Five switches need to close, in series, within five seconds. Do you wait for the engine runs to go into the cockpit, throw the switch, add throttle, wait for the light, and call it good? Without the box you can’t analyze the circuit. Are there any weaknesses in the system? Any looming problems? Isn’t that the point of the check? Have you complied with the regulation? Do you have an underlying feeling of powerlessness and frustration, or are you okay to sign it off? Even further, is your chief inspector okay to sign it off? Does he or she even know about your dilemma? Should you talk to him or her about it to cover yourself? Besides, what could possibly happen? What if the plane just took off, with the CEO on board, on the way to close a $30 million deal, and the crew gets that anti-ice fail light and they need to turn back and abort the flight? Are you prepared with your answer, there on the ramp, with the CEO circling? It says right here that you signed off that check. How did you do it? What did you find? Well, without that breakout box you don’t really know, do you? Further, without that breakout box, it’s going to take hours to find which switch is bad, or which circuit has a bad wire.
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