I am going to Millington, Tennessee for 6 months after boot camp.
Their training me to be an aviation electrian. Does anybody have any
info on this place?
Casey Cameron
wcameron@datastar.net
In article <19970509012000.VAA00866@ladder02.news.aol.com>, aa767er@aol.com (AA767ER) wrote:
Welcome to the world of Navair, I started my aviation career there in 1983 >at AV "A" school, at the time thats where AT's, AQ's, and AX's went, but >from what I understand AQ's and AX's no longer exsist. Your getting into a >great career field, even though I was an AT, are shops were combined
AE/AT. If your planing to get into the civil field afterwards try to get >"O" level, i.e. squadron. I'ved worked for Lockheed, DEA, general
aviation, and now AA. Even know I needed an A&P license to get these jobs, >I was always hired as a avionics tech. Over half of the avionics crew on >the 767 line I work are either ex-navy or marine avionics or electrical >types.
Good Luck,
Jim
By the way you're gonna find out that AE stands for Aviation Everything
In the east coast Tomcat world of the mid 80's, we had an IWT shop
(AT/AQ) and an AE shop.
BTW, the nickname for an AE is "one wire"...because they never can
seem to fix anything that has more than one wire...<G>
Boy, do I have some good AE stories...like the time a couple of AE's
replaced the speedbrake switch in the throttle...the next time the jet
was flown (by the XO!), the speedbrakes would pop out every time the
#1 UHF radio was keyed...
..or the time the AE's miss-wired a relay, so that every time the
pilot would hit the DLC/chaff button on the stick, the spoilers would
come out (and chaff would be expended)!
..or when we IWTer's were stuck with a gripe on an AWG-9 antenna that
we could not fiigure out. The antenna went bad in flight was changed,
and then would not work...even if "known good" antennas were hung on
the jet (and BTW, robbing an antenna SUCKS!). All the voltages read good...what gives? Later during an engine turn, I ran up the radar
(IWT was required to supply a backseater during maintenace turns in
order to run certain tests) and was shocked to hear the antenna come
on line, and check good! Turns out that when we removed the original
(bad) antenna, but before we hung the new one, the AE's had rewired
the ground power contactors...and got the phases messed up!
Arrrggghhh!!!!
Ah, the good ole days...
CJ
(former AT2, VF-33 Starfighters)
I am going to Millington, Tennessee for 6 months after boot camp.
Their training me to be an aviation electrian. Does anybody have any
info on this place?
Casey Cameron
wcameron@datastar.net
I am going to Millington, Tennessee for 6 months after boot camp.
Their training me to be an aviation electrian. Does anybody have any
info on this place?
Casey Cameron
wcameron@datastar.net
I am going to Millington, Tennessee for 6 months after boot camp.
Their training me to be an aviation electrian. Does anybody have any
info on this place?
Casey Cameron
wcameron@datastar.net
In <336e9ce3...@news1.alterdial.uu.net> wcam...@datastar.netI was there in 1969/70 attending AD(J) school then a "C" school for helicopters and from there to Imperial Beach, Ca.
writes:
I am going to Millington, Tennessee for 6 months after boot camp.
Their training me to be an aviation electrian. Does anybody have any
info on this place?
Casey Cameron
wcam...@datastar.net
Just north of Memphis,suburb. Go to Graceland, but only if you want to
see something out of the Beverly Hillbillies! Good God, the 60s and 70s
were tacky!
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