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WORKING IN BUSINESS AVIATION For those that haven’t worked in a corporate fl ight department, it is diff erent than working in a “typical” aircraft maintenance job. Priest shares his thoughts on the diff erences. “It’s more mission-oriented than clock- oriented,” he says. “I always looked at my techs like we were a band of brothers. We always took care of each other. We had a mindset of family fi rst. We were always careful to make sure we worked smart and safely. We used to say that sometimes we needed to be fl uid, because being fl exible was too rigid. But even in those fl uid moments, there are still rules. We would not do anything illegal, immoral or unsafe. Those were our three non-negotiables — what we lived by. If I didn’t have the confi dence to put my family on the aircraft, I wouldn’t put company employees on it.”
NEW EMPLOYEES We asked Priest what he looked for when hiring a new mechanic. “A strong work ethic and a teachable mind,” he says. “Someone that I can trust to work in a small team environment with limited continual oversight. I needed to be able to trust that when I sent someone to work on a $50 Million aircraft, I didn’t need to stand over his shoulder to make sure he did the job right. I needed someone that I could trust as the accountable manager who was going to do the job in accordance with the instructions in the tech data. Or if there was a problem with that, he was going to come to me. “Good interpersonal skills are also important,” he
continues. “In the corporate world, unlike the repair station environment, the technicians and crew chiefs often interact with the company’s corporate travelers. There needs to be a certain skill set to interact with them and do it in a professional manner — to communicate without feeling intimidated and understanding the environment you are in when communicating with executives.”
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CAREER ADVICE What advice would Priest give someone just starting out and wanting to have a successful career in business aviation? “Take advantage of every opportunity,” he says. “It’s not a bad thing to come into a fl ight department as a young technician. Have goals. What do you want to do? Do you want to be a fl oor technician? Do you want to be an asset manager? Do you want to be an executive? Make career planning part of your conversation. I believe companies are more attuned to the fact that they need to provide career path planning for their corporate fl ight department. Immerse yourself in that corporate family. Immerse yourself in the aviation community. Get to know people — network!”
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