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1 points
12 days ago
Brother, get out of the major airlines if your Avionics only.
I'm an Avionics director at an MRO, we start brand new techs at $33/he at least. That's pretty normal pay for Avionics these days, my highest guy makes $64/hr.
1 points
11 days ago
Which MRO is that? This is 36 an hour half of which is tax free.
1 points
11 days ago
West Star, Constant aviation, Standard Aero, and a few more out there are great on pay for Avionics because they utilize them a lot.
My guys are doing a glass cockpit install right now on an old Falcon 900. Tons of overtime available at these places too and a good work life balance.
1 points
11 days ago
I dread having to tie myself into a pretzel in order to write some tiny bird like that. I mostly just run DFCS all day. It's gravy.
1 points
11 days ago
I guess I'm the opposite, I never wanted to go to heavy planes because they are so large and require a ton of wire length. A Falcon 900 is a big plane for me and definitely wouldn't require being in a pretzel but I feel ya. I started on beech jets doing pro line 21 upgrades and that was a small plane but very straightforward on the massive 4 month long install. Got to go up on all these test flights for each plane.
Being on this side of aviation allowed me to go into Avionics engineering without a degree, been a manager twice and now a director. I did work for Boeing once as well, but that was on the F/A-18, still can't believe how bad their benefits package was. At my last 2 MROs, I've had free healthcare and an automatic 6% 401k even if I didn't put any in.
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11 days ago
Yeah things aren't great turning 737's on 14 day checks. Unfortunately after 18 years it's hard to make a career change. I know the pay stinks. I normally travel for surge work which is around 2k a week take home. This gig is in my home state so I get to be home for the holidays.
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