If it is anything like over here, some poor basterd saves up $50k and does the course.... then all the businesses get their planes (supposedly) serviced in India or China

So they end up working at local airports and charge mega bucks! and want you to them and kiss their butts

IMO what it is, is the big business of education.

Most of the more expensive schools...
AIM (aviation institute of maintenance)... has a branch not far from me (not on an airfield).
They get something like $35K for the A&P course, $45K if you want to add avionics.
Most of the students are on some kind of govt pay... and most of them are not exactly what I would call motivated types... you get the idea.

It is a game of milking the govt... a goodly % of the graduates never work in the field.

The problem is... they give you $$$ to live on while you are going to school... I am sure we can figure out the rest... :(

Back in the late dark ages when I got my ticket... I think I paid something like $3K give or take.

Just do what I did, spend 6 1/2 years in the USAF as a Crew Chief, then take the tests and pay for it out of pocket..... You are either going to pay, or work for it. No it is not easy, but nothing worth having is easy.

Used to be a good gig, now they think they can get great maintenance in China and Mexico....well someone once said. "you get what you pay for."

Yeah, that is why Qantas has lost its perfect safety record....

Now they are 'maintained' (supposedly) overseas, the pilot does a walk around on arrival at a destination (if he makes it) to count the engines to make sure none fell off on the way

It was once a fantastic airline , now it is just another bunch of flying cattle trucks with bare minimum maintenance

Gone from the 'flying Kangaroo' to the 'who gives a fuckeroo'

This passes for "airworthy" over in China.

This one will make it all the way to the crash site.

Not sure what the story on this one is..

One time, I was flying on AirTran...
Looked out the window and saw that very panel loose. Told the flight attendant to get the pilot to come look at it... she ignored me.

That was the LAST time I flew on Airtran.

You really do get what you pay for...

Helo looks like a PH job... Gabby is getting really good at it!

as long as no one lands on my place like that upside down one we will be ok..lol

good Info on the A&P stuff. looks like I won't be trying for that after all. did not know the schools cost that much.

Look into the schools attached to state colleges... rather than independent.
There is one in NW GA that is around $10K, and is a 'working shop'... meaning they actually work on airworthy aircraft.

I had to look that one up Scott

Turns out Ns Pivi likes to stun people. She has another pic called 'white animals' where there is a military plane upside down in the background? Must have plenty of $ to be able to buy aircraft just to turn upside down, just for art and to surprise people?

Obviously she aint a like me, I have trouble affording an aircraft to keep up the right way

http://www.museomagazine.com/PAULA-PIVI

Well, it's a lot of work, but I am getting the pasture cleared a little at a time.

here is what it looks like so far.

man I have been putting my mower crane I built to a lot of use, had to make new braces, but now it is kicking ass, fence posts? what Fence posts, this thing jacks them right out of the ground. has enough cable to wrap around big bundles of tree limbs to move from where I cut the tree down, sure saves on the back.

little by little I am getting this place cleaned up and cleared.

Looks like you are doing good down there... how are the temps? HOT? HUMID?

We are just getting away from summer here in the burbs of Atlanta... highs around 80-ish and the humidity is starting to break.
Thankfully, I still have some HVAC systems to change, so my income stream is still going... we all like income streams...

It's Hot and dry, but I get sweating like a river, soaks my shirts, have to go in about every 30 minutes to cool off. it's been in the high 80's to low 90's but that Sun reflects off this sandy soil like a mirror. it sure not like doing yard work in the Carolinas. not to mention there are some big ass snakes around here.

but I have gotten a lot cut down, biggest issue is can only burn in early morning when the ground is wet from the dew. I don't trust hot ashes floating in the air.

sure wish I had a big wood chipper.

I wonder if you are allowed just to rent a D9 dozer for half a day? Make it dead flat and not a tree or bush in sight?

Just don't get too close to the house

It's an AIRFRAME & POWERPLANT certificate ,Add 4 years then add Inspection Authorization, Add a Commercial Helicopter Certificate and what do you get?

STUCK IN FUCKING CHINA in the rain,seeing Doctors, crazy fucking drivers, using a barrowed lap top in Pin Yin lettering Waiting to tour a factory and going to sleep knowing the drivers here are so crazy that they drive any direction splitting lanes with taxies & buses at break neck speeds and that Dennis Fetters got his Chinese drivers licence so it proves he's one crazy muther fucker!

Let the tours begin

Chinese crazy mofos!!!!!!
WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pictures Don pictures!!!!!

Yup, you know the rules.... pictures or it didn't happen

Not to cause trouble but if you see Dennis tell him I am Buying Air Command inc. and am going to change the name to Wolverine Command, Inc. and the first NEW prototype will be called a Wolverine Commander!!!!
I want him to know it's not a theme, it's a way of life..........

Oh and give him the middle finger sunny side up while informing him...tell it's my way of saying hello from Sunny Florida!!!

He should get it after our war of words from the RWF just before he was permanently BANNED!!!!!

Don't you mean Mohammed Al Faris?

The guy that killed all those people with air commands, then killed all those people with the mini 500

then was about to kill 2 people at a time in voyager 500's but ran away to china and got married in stead?

No, never heard of him