Best Or Worst Job

[Guest graunch1]

What was your best job? Either a single incident or a season or whatever.

 

My best was working in Tuk on S61 and S76s in a Hangar No bosses for 1,200 miles

 

Worst was in Ft Nelson sharing a B47 cockpit with 7 Brazillian mosquitoes while rewiring the radio.

How much OFF is too much

[67november]

Best job, bending wrenches on the 24+ hueys and kiowas of my military unit.

 

worst, fixing a shorts 330 at the Dulles (Reagan National) airport and spending the next 18 hours trying to get home 600 miles away. I know small peanuts compared to some

[Helilog56]

The "best job", is the one you would do again in a heartbeat...........the "worst job"................. well, you get the drift

[Dewey]

Best jobs

 

Product Support Engineer - major turbine engine manufacturer

 

Product Support Engineer - major helicopter manufacturer

 

Worst Job

 

Dynamic component technician/inspector - major helicopter manufacturer being run by unprofessional bullies

 

Lesson learned - It's not what you do, it's who you do it for!

[Bell Hell]

"Lesson learned - It's not what you do, it's who you do it for!" - Dewey

 

Amen: I've changed engines in the arctic winter outdoors and had more fun with a good crew than working indoors with the wrong crew.

[splitpin]

"Lesson learned - It's not what you do, it's who you do it for!" - Dewey

 

Amen: I've changed engines in the arctic winter outdoors and had more fun with a good crew than working indoors with the wrong crew.

 

Your post speaks volumes Bell ****!!!

[ValKiran.mtc]

Worst job: When I was just the lowly cleaner.....behind the aft pressure bulkhead in a firefighting DC-6 there are anti-ice ducts for the vertical stab. In this particular aircraft, these ducts were blocked off or plugged. This plug is lovingly referred to as the 'coffee can'. An engineer had opened up the inspection panel of the bulkhead, flicked his flashlight over the area, put the bulkhead panel back on and handed me the screwdriver with a "you have fun with that" look on his face. I re-opened the panel, stuffed my light inside and realized that the 'coffee can' had exploded due to a plethora of dead birds that had collected in said orifice. Those that were not hung up in the remanents of the can had been dragged through all the flight control pulleys and cables. Not to mention the collected residue of a season worth of Firetrol swimming with maggots. Took me three, eight hours days to clean said areas. Counted 13 discernable carcasses...plus unknown number of bits too far gone to know where one stopped and the others began.

 

Kicker: sitting down the first afternoon to a lunch of chicken and rice.

 

Best Job: knowing those places don't exist in helicopters.

[ame206350]

Best Job: QA for the company I'm with now

 

Worst: Seismic support for Abitibi. Never, ever, ever, again.

[ray]

Best job: When I was an apprentice, Jim Masse sent me to Penticton and forgot I was there.

I was there for almost 4 months, staying in a hotel, enjoying the single life, keeping my mouth shut when he found me again.

 

Worst: Winter seismic south of Grande Prairie one year when the temps dropped down to -46C. You had to wait for it to warm up to -40C so you could start working. Blew the water pump in the Dodge truck. Had to change it there. Had a broken wire somewhere in the hook release circuit. LED Multimeters don't work in the cold. Not even with the Herman Nelson on it. It was easier for me to rewire that circuit than try and find the break.

By the time I finished that tour, I had lost the skin off all my fingers. Frostburn.

I had actually called the office to say I quit. Had enough. BG laughed at me and hung up. Another AME did drive in to camp a few days later to see if I was still there, and see if everything was all right. The job was winding down at this point.

[transquebecniece]

Worst job: I re-opened the panel, stuffed my light inside and realized that the 'coffee can' had exploded due to a plethora of dead birds that had collected in said orifice. Those that were not hung up in the remanents of the can had been dragged through all the flight control pulleys and cables. Not to mention the collected residue of a season worth of Firetrol swimming with maggots.

 

Kicker: sitting down the first afternoon to a lunch of chicken and rice.

 

Sorry, ValK. Musta missed that. Too funny! Mmmm...