My dad made the local paper

[MQAAord]

An article about Blackhawk Tech's AMT program from the Beloit paper:

http://www.beloitdailynews.com/artic...ews/news01.txt

[Qgar]

Very nice, Amber...

[SkyCougar]

Yay Dad! That's cool Amber

[RPJ]

Wow, pretty cool.

[falconvalley]

Your dad is an instructor at Blackhawk Tech? Cool! Small world. I didn't go there, but know someone who taught there.

[MQAAord]

Originally Posted by falconvalley

Your dad is an instructor at Blackhawk Tech? Cool! Small world. I didn't go there, but know someone who taught there.

You know someone who taught in the AMT program too? Wow! Who? Dad's been teaching there since about 1998-ish (I can't remember the exact year he started teaching there.) He started out splitting his time between teaching there and being the DOM for Wings USA (a flight school on the JVL airport that is no longer there). He went full-time at BTC around 2002-ish.

[fadec]

Cool article.

I have to laugh though whenever I hear about this A&P shortage. Truth is there are thousands of A&P's out there that gave up on the industry and refuse to work for peanut wages.

Seriously, I would encourage the students to pursue corporate or general aviation. Stay away from the airlines!!! After 9 years of midnight shift and rotating days off I'm just now getting back to what I was making back in 2000. If I stick with it (not) I might be able to hold day shift in about 12 more years.

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[ZachH]

Cool Cool.

[Flyingtower]

Originally Posted by fadec

I have to laugh though whenever I hear about this A&P shortage. Truth is there are thousands of A&P's out there that gave up on the industry and refuse to work for peanut wages.

I couldn't agree more!

Originally Posted by fadec

Seriously, I would encourage the students to pursue corporate or general aviation. Stay away from the airlines!!!

I tried general aviation. It paid miserably, and I mean MISERABLY, and the working conditions were just as bad. I was making more money BEFORE I got my A&P! I also got zero benefits. Nothing! If anything happened to me I was on my own. It WAS an 8-5 Mon-Fri job but in the end, it just wasn't worth it. I love working with aircraft but even an airplane nut like me has his limits. I gave up and left the industry for awhile, but I just couldn't stay away from aviation so I ended up searching for a job in the airlines. After much hard work, it seems I *might* get hired by Colgan Air. They offered to pay me several dollars an hour more than general aviation did. And they included benefits! So with all due respect 'Fadec' the airlines may not be nice, but General Aviation is no rose garden either. (Maybe some of the difficulty I experienced finding a job has to do with the fact that I wanted to live in the saturated market of Houston, Texas.) As for corporate, I have no idea how that pays, I never worked in that sector.