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by apprentoid
Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:32 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: AME tech exams
Replies: 163
Views: 175521

Get the Jepesson Test Guide books. Watch out because Jepessen makes study guides and workbooks as well. The workbooks and Study guides are useless. The TEST GUIDE BOOKS are pure gold. Airframe is the best
by apprentoid
Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:29 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: USA - Sears
Replies: 3
Views: 859

you should try SK.
by apprentoid
Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:27 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Tool longevity.
Replies: 29
Views: 6025

I have a wide variety of tools. The ones I found for a relatively low price and that weren't absolute junk were SK for sockets. Good quality tool for a decent price.
by apprentoid
Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:23 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Lockwire pliers
Replies: 14
Views: 3792

2 years i've been using a pair of proto non reversible pliers. Never failed me yet and I treat them like shit. Mind you they were about 120.00 for that price im sure i could have gotten a better pair.
by apprentoid
Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:32 am
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: The happenin city of Thunder Bay
Replies: 7
Views: 1428

Stevensons Aviation in Portage of the Prairie Manitoba is only 250.00 a semester. You must be working as an ame apprentice to go there though.
by apprentoid
Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:05 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: First air
Replies: 15
Views: 3316

Dryden Ontario was a good place to work i just left just after the summer started to work for the same company out in Sudbury I didn't no that there was more then two places to work in aviation in Dryden.
Very small little place but good fishing all around it
by apprentoid
Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:28 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: teenage boys run away from home, take parents plane, crash
Replies: 18
Views: 2825

That has too be some of the funniest shit i've herd in a while. I read somewher about a similiar incident but the kids were all drunk when they stole an aircraft. That's two incidences of this i've herd. Some places need better security.
by apprentoid
Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:22 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Top Gun with Cessna's!
Replies: 31
Views: 3868

That was great video ahaha fucking laughed my ass off
by apprentoid
Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:43 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Out of fuel in SK
Replies: 14
Views: 2511

whats the registration on that plane ahaha it looks very familiar
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:34 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: YELLOWKNIFE maintenance jobs
Replies: 26
Views: 7802

I've herd only good things about arctic sunwest.
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:31 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Allied Wings
Replies: 2
Views: 1317

Why would you want to go to Portage? What a brutal place suppose its not the worse place to work. a job is a job after all.
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:30 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Enterprise Air
Replies: 4
Views: 1559

Im sure they didn't change there name I was in school in december and there were 2 people in my class from there.
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:29 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Buffalo Airways Yellowknife
Replies: 19
Views: 10380

From what I herd its not a bad place if you can put up with Joe.
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:26 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: New Apprentice
Replies: 14
Views: 3624

Send out resumes in ontario, little companies seem to always be looking for apprentices. Thats what I did.
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:23 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: 3 x First Air Apprentice Jobs - Yellowknife
Replies: 2
Views: 1717

Im sure you'll get the experience there if you can tolerate the cold.
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:22 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: air creebec
Replies: 4
Views: 1808

They have dash 8's, king air, and a few other ones my old man worked there for years. I think alot of shifts are nights still im not too sure. They sure arn't the worst place to work I can tell ya that much. I would work there if I needed work and could get in.
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:19 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Apprentices who need a little help
Replies: 10
Views: 3780

I herd little red was hiring and they were in peace river. Just send them out to the little companies in ontario. Yellowknife seems to always be looking too.
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:14 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: apprentice
Replies: 50
Views: 15824

I started off with no experience at 12 dollars an hour. Going to school at Stevenson. As soon as I was done my first year i got a very generous raise. I can't really complain about the pay in the north only had to eat the bad macaroni and cheeze for one year. Now its wings and beer 3 times a week im...
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:04 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: An apprentice without own tools?
Replies: 8
Views: 2231

I have not seen any companies in the north that provide you with tools. If you find one let me no. Good luck with that ahhah
You can't fix nothing without your tools in the north ahah
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:59 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: Northern Apprentice pay
Replies: 3
Views: 1456

It all depends on experience at most places. usually 12 to 16 some places in ontario are only 10 an hour but not too many. usually youll get 12 and if your lucky 14 if your a 1st year apprentice
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:57 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: New Jazz Apprentice Hires???
Replies: 10
Views: 2347

A fello apprentice that I work with applied last summer and got called about a month ago. So i'm assuming if you just applied recently your gonna be waiting a while
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:55 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: how is the north?
Replies: 8
Views: 1875

Summers arn't bad, winters are cold. thast northern ontario pretty much in a nutshell.
by apprentoid
Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:49 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: For All The TOP GUN Wannabee's
Replies: 23
Views: 3494

I made it 26.64 sec.s on my first try thats not that hard really to beat 20 seconds.
by apprentoid
Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:46 pm
Forum: Maintenance
Topic: OYAP
Replies: 2
Views: 1224

Im doing an apprenticeship in manitoba at stevenson aviation. I get 400 every 2 weeks when im there. I have to pay 250 for my course the goverment pays the rest. So yes you actually do recieve pay. It took about 2 weeks before I seen my first check though. My thoughts on this are that its alot cheap...
by apprentoid
Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:23 pm
Forum: General Comments
Topic: Enterprise Air in Oshawa
Replies: 7
Views: 2053

I no a few apprentices who have worked there and im sure they could have made more at mcdonalds.

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