boeing

[Rowdy Fitzgerald]

Go for it! That's a darn good chance to better your self!

 

[naford]

I'll through in my 2 cents. Go back and get your GED. Either your former school district or local community college will offer some type of program. Start this now. You have to learn how to learn and starting by getting your GED is a good way. Then you can go to the Boeing school. Even if you start the Boeing school a week or two after you start with your GED you will be ahead. If they are going to teachyou how to fix jet planes thats a good thing. Every time I try to get the CEO of companies I have stock to fly coach they buy another corporate jet. After all GE has to have a jet just for former CEO Jack Welch and his ex-wife to use.

 

[Jraymer360]

I'll through in my 2 cents. Go back and get your GED. Either your former school district or local community college will offer some type of program. Start this now. You have to learn how to learn and starting by getting your GED is a good way. Then you can go to the Boeing school. Even if you start the Boeing school a week or two after you start with your GED you will be ahead. If they are going to teachyou how to fix jet planes thats a good thing. Every time I try to get the CEO of companies I have stock to fly coach they buy another corporate jet. After all GE has to have a jet just for former CEO Jack Welch and his ex-wife to use.

you aren't going to be licensed to be an aviation mechanic in a few weeks. it takes months. almost a year.

 

[Flat Toy]

He will not be an A&P. Sounds like it is a company training program. Here in town Dallas Airmotive overhauling and repair of Rolls Royce turbine most of the people in the plant do not have an A&P. If he does get into the repair side he would work under the repair station license .

 

[Jraymer360]

He will not be an A&P. Sounds like it is a company training program. Here in town Dallas Airmotive overhauling and repair of Rolls Royce turbine most of the people in the plant do not have an A&P. If he does get into the repair side he would work under the repair station license .

oh yeah ...i remember that from FAR's...i hate FAR's.

 

[509lifted]

ok i have to ask what is an a&p and what is far's

 

[Jraymer360]

ok i have to ask what is an a&p and what is far's

Aviation and powerplant license...looks like this.

the one on the right is the license itself...

FAR = Federal aviation regulations. around here we call it the aviation bible. if you don't follow it you loose your license.

 

[JoshT]

what are you doing?

If you're working on an aircraft you need a license. and it takes a hell of a lot longer than 11 weeks to do it. this is the field i'm going for and i've been in for 2 years ( keep in mind, i took these classes over highschool, so summer break + only 3 hours a day instead of 6 hours a day). i have another 8 months to go and then i have to take tests.

As has already been mentioned he'd be working under the company license, as such he would not be required to have his own license. I went to school for aviation maintenance, started in 03 and graduated in 06 (co-op, 6 months on 6 months off). Never got my tickets, but working for the federal government I don't need them. The draw back to that is that I can't very well go anywhere else, and can't do general aviation work. I considered going back and taking the tests for that reason. If I did anything else in aviation it would be general aviation, and I have seen too many accident investigators file questionable reports (one of them for a crash my dad was in) and people are too sue happy. I know my work but once that plane leaves my possession I don't know what happens to it. I've just decided that there's too much liability in the field to be happy. Instead I've decided to change career fields, trying to get into IT now, it's what I should have done back in 03.

i work on jet skis for a living now and it is a 11 week course i checked with them to make sure the guy was real and everything and they said that yes it is a 11 week course and it costs 2500 to take it

Don't let what's been said here scare you away from a great opportunity. Sounds to me like this could be a really good one given you current occupation. If he's basically paying your bills and paying for you to go to school to do the job what have you got to loose. If it doesn't work out you can go back to fixing jet skis until you get a better opportunity. If it does then you potentially have the start of a great career. What I would be asking are about the terms of them paying all this to send you to school. Namely if things don't work out what would you owe them. I know some places do that on the stipulation that you have to work for them for x years to pay it back.

Heck it says a lot about you that the offer was presented. Not everybody get's an offer like that, you must have made a good impression on the guy.

I also wouldn't consider having to get a GED a catch, that's something you should probably do anyway. Especially if you want to take advantage of any other opportunities the future may hold.

 

[JoshT]

Something else to note. If you get enough experience working under one of those repair station licenses you can actually become eligible to take the FAA A&P Licensing tests without going to school. It takes a lot of time and experience to get someone to buy off on it, but it is possible. That is unless the FARs have changed to exclude that since I graduated.

 

[Jraymer360]

Something else to note. If you get enough experience working under one of those repair station licenses you can actually become eligible to take the FAA A&P Licensing tests without going to school. It takes a lot of time and experience to get someone to buy off on it, but it is possible. That is unless the FARs have changed to exclude that since I graduated.

i think they did, i haven't looked them over much but i believe the only way is classes or being in the military for so long.

 

[509lifted]

hey josht it is the guys personal money that he is gonna spend to do it. and yea i made a really good impression i told him i have only been working on jet skis for 2 months and he didnt beleive me cause of how well i knew how to work on them in such a short period that he said i would be a great asset to the company cause of how quick i learn and that i explain how things are done in such a great manner that even he new how to do it after me showing him, plus he said that i had a great personality the way i work with others that i dont make them feel stupid when i explain them.

 

[det107]

Go for it !! Move "up" with your life !! Roll up your sleeves & make your Moms proud !!
Perhaps you can go to night school instead of taking the GED-

 

[509lifted]

if i go to night school i would have to wait two months untill it starts and then i still have to finish a 1&1/2 of high school to complete and if i go the ged route it takes 7 hours to complete the test so i would rather go that route.

 

[Will]

No reason not to check into it, but it sounds dubious.

I completed the A&P school at Columbus State but didn't test for the licenses. It's pretty simple, but I won't say easy. It's shop class. You learn to set rivets and weld tubing. You mess around with ancient engines--like a 500 cubic inch lawn mower engine with 2 spark plugs. You mess with radial engines--so old they are depicted in cave drawings. And little turbo jets. And then you can take your tests and get your tickets...

And like any other job, you aren't qualified when you show up to work. With aircraft, you have to have worked on that job in the past to be able sign off on it. All of your real training will be OJT. The fabric and dope job you do in school doesn't transfer to a 737.

But why not investigate?

 

[70roadrunner]

i highly recommend you jump on this opporotunity! i know several people that work there, its a great place to have a career! great pay, great benefits, what are you waiting for? i hope it works out for you!