i get 23 cents an hour and i work on planes too

 

so what planes do you work on i work on small piston pushers that i need to upgrade to the real thing like a Gulfstream or even bigger like a Airbus 380 (i wish)

 

Boeing F/A-18F super hornet

 

That is cool i have a good friend of mine that works on A-10's and he love it. Me i like working on civilian airplanes myself. So do you have your A&P and IA?

 

that doesnt really apply to my job. i load bombs on the super hornet

 

I'm in the QA Department of Gulfstream Aerospace in Savannah. Helluva plane.

 

*Cough* Gulfstream sucks *cough*




Just messin' with you. I work for Dassault.

Joe

 

i miss the old plane i used to work on the F-14B that was a bad *** plane

 

Gulfstreams are really nice I have worked on 4 and 5 when i worked for coca-cola. I applyed for Gulfstream but never heard back from them do you know if they are hiring in the near future and if they are what are they paying there mechanics? Just wondering.

 

Whoever told you that they make 43/ hour is full of crap. Maybe a mechanic that is close to retirement with his benefits figured in makes 40/ hour. Not in atlanta anyways. Remember, these guys have more responsibility on their shoulders than the pilots.

 

According to this article in the LA Times...

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...l=la-home-oped

 

Key word is "average." In some areas of the country an "average" of 70K/year is nothing. Your "average" comes out to $33/hour.

 

The mechanics don't want raises to $56 an hour, hell they volunteered to take a pay cut, just not as large as what NW wanted. I support these guys 100%. We have to maintain a livable wage in this country, and even more so in important jobs. There aren't many jobs that have more responsibility than a jet mechanic. Would you want your surgeon making the lowest wage? What about your kid's teachers?

You get what you pay for folks, think about it.

 

I understand but hell i make 20 an hour and i have the same, even more responsibility. Because i have to maintain 54 airplanes with only 6 mechanics but if you are a mechanic in the airline you have one job assignment and that is what you do for years ex: if you are the tire service guy you just do tires. That is the reason you have a unions you one have to do one job and only that job if you do another job you are doing someone elses work. Heck kamikaze2b you are an air traffic controller you should be making 250,000 an year becuase of the responibility you have. I am not saying they should not be getting payed just not that much. Oh, Frank S i was told this by a mechanic that works for northwest and that is there starting pay that is with 2 years of jet exiperience.

 

I don't know where you got that load of info, but its wrong. They have much more than 1 job assignment. The ones that I have talked to at ATL do everything from electronics ( this includes custom soldering/re-soldering of connections of interal circuit boards ), visual inspections, tires, brakes, R&R of a complete engine assembly, etc etc. Even swapping out seats for pilots.