Search results

I changed a few engines at sea, it was pretty uncommon in the latter part of the Sea King's life. It could be a finicky job and as SKT points out, the high speed shaft could give you some trouble from the VA side. The forward mount required a Non Destructive Testing inspection while the engine...

Non-standard repairs are quite common. It basically means that the issue is either something for which we have no approved repair scheme or it's something for which we have a repair scheme but the unserviceability exceeds published repair/damage limits in the maintenance manual. There are a...

After spending some time in meetings with some pretty smart folks on the SIK side and on our side, they have some theories but nothing settled. I understand that they might be able to ID the root cause by getting the cracked portions cut out and sent for analysis. How they do that... I've only...

We've asked about the 92 cracking during conversations with SIK engineering and they've told us that our issue is not related to that. It's sometimes a 'good' thing when we can find commonality between our frames and the S92. It can give us a much larger bank of flight hours to draw upon when...

SIK has been pretty consistent in stating that this particular issue on the 148 is not something they've seen on the S92. No definitive root cause that they've released to us yet.

I did the program last year (19/20) at Asticou and these are some of the things that helped me. I started with no French and ended up doing well come testing time even though we had to finish the last 6 weeks of the course from home via self-study (thanks Covid). Find simple kids’ shows or...

I'm not going to comment about whether or not there's anything 'wrong' with the logic, I don't really have the background to say what it should or shouldn't do. I will say that the question that Max raised has been asked by operators, tech authority and division and the answers that came back...

I'm neither an operator nor an engineer, but I sat in on the last risk assessment for the flight control logic behind this. There was a very specific set of conditions identified that lead to this bias phenomenon. They've done everything they can so that the crews can avoid recreating these...

No, you certainly can't eliminate all risk as our good friends in DFS duly remind us each year...

Sure, that's why I mentioned the establishment of deliverables (milestones if we're getting specific) to reduce/eliminate risk; it's a way to identify, mitigate and track issues to retain a capability while working the problem. I work in a section of the 148 WSM that manages RARMs and was on a...

There's a risk assessment/management process that kicks in to help mitigate terrible situations like this when they come up. We get tech/policy experts and operators together to identify the specific risk scenarios so the RCAF can make a call regarding continued use of platforms/systems. The...

Not at all, no harm done. This was an odd situation where the the SCWO had sent him down to my office just so I could point him towards some techs on the floor. He specifically wanted to chat with folks in coveralls. I just grabbed the chance to ask him a couple of frank questions, which...

No doubt, not sure if you're east or west but I left 443 in 18.... was at 423 from 08-13. We made a lot of stuff work with what we had. Tons of credit has to go back to the MSE folks: stokers, electricians, hull techs and of course the deck department for all their support out there. Having...

Read my reply right above your post.

If you look up a few posts or so you'll see I'd addressed your question regarding my rank at the time. I've already stated my disdain for farmed out maintenance in this thread. I've found that the senior folks who are interested in an air tech perspective are few and far between. I don't...

Very kind of you to say and I'd say it's true on the Chief's behalf, but there's nothing rare/special about me. I just wasn't going to miss out on the opportunity; we were alone when I asked so there were no audience concerns. I'm also not particularly concerned about my career progression so...

No I meant certify, POM refers to a journeyman who is authorized to perform and certify maintenance w/o being supervised directly (critical junctures aside). For anything but an elementary task, they'll need that Level A to inspect and certify the task/job.

No worries on the numbers, we're always going to lose people, and in some cases that's ok. Sometimes folks just decide it's not for them anymore and that 10-12 year mark is where a lot of people might be looking at their first posting and say no thanks. As I mentioned, a solution would be...

In my opinion, the RCAF is not interested in building civilian equivalent experience within uniformed air tech ranks. We've adopted a practice of focusing much of our attention on 1st line support to operations with very limited 2nd line capability. We do have techs in the RCAF who've...

I can only speak for the 4 operational squadrons I've been posted to (14 AMS, 407, 423, 443) but I've not seen great numbers of folks walking out the door from air tech trades at the 10-12 year mark in any of those places. Fleet changes are becoming more the exception that the rule compared to...