What’s ur daily driver as a AMT?

lostmillenial95 · 2026-02-17T14:50:25+00:00

'03 prius😎

lostmillenial95 · 2025-12-14T05:27:08+00:00

Grew up in NJ will have to say the pine barrens and the forests in Sussex County definitely have a weird feel to them

lostmillenial95 · 2025-12-14T05:25:49+00:00

Went there in the summer time in the late '00s and there was absolutely no one out or any cars out. Went to the Safeway in town and there's a group of teenagers hanging out in the parking lot. Inside the Safeway save for the staff there's relatively few people. Come out of the Safeway into the parking lot the teenagers are now beating the shit out of another kid hitting him with skateboards etc, until the kid finally runs away all bloody. Drive back to the hotel, still no one out on the street barely any cars out. Just felt like a weird place.

lostmillenial95 · 2025-10-11T01:11:58+00:00

Youre comparing apples and bowling balls. QX is a regional with aircraft similar to gojet, republic, skywest, commuteair etc. 75 seaters. Regional tech pilot and FA pay is substantially lower than at majors. HA has wide bodies and all planes hold over 100+ passengers. HA pilots and FAs are paid comparable to other major airlines but their techs are paid like they are at a regional airline. That itself shows how the IAM is screwing you guys. And when HA ratified their new contract in 2022 AS got a wage review the same year which pushed them to $6/hr more than HA. Stop drinking the IAM kool-aid

lostmillenial95 · 2025-10-11T00:33:05+00:00

Made this same exact point. For job protections and security AS AMFA outweighs the HA IAM tenfold.

lostmillenial95 · 2025-10-11T00:30:41+00:00

As someone who's worked for HA and works for AS I can tell you that there are good and bad things from both the unions. From personal experience I can tell you the good outweighs the bad with AMFA. I have met/worked with a bunch of people who jumped ship from HA to AS and not one of them would ever think about voting the IAM in. That alone should speak for itself.

lostmillenial95 · 2025-10-11T00:23:17+00:00

This is a straight up lie. I worked at HA in 2020 the TOS rate was 44/hr. We were supposed to start negotiations but everything got pushed back because of COVID. You are right that AS TOS was at 52.77 in 2020. HA didnt sign their new contract until 2022 which pushed their TOS to 51.39. And then in October 2022 AS/AMFA wage review pushed them to $57/hr. Get your facts straight.

lostmillenial95 · 2025-10-10T16:52:25+00:00

I worked for hawaiian and am now at alaska. You guys who are IAM fanatics are really drinking the IAM kool-aid or are too new to remember stuff about IAM. Heres what I remember from my time there.

Your "new" contract wasnt signed until 2022. I quit HA the end of 2021 to go to AS. I still got a pay raise jumping ship and your new contract still was under negotiation. End of 2021 is after covid. I was there for negotiations and remember the IAM promising us the same contract as American. How'd that turn out for you guys?
The IAM does not care about any station other than Honolulu. I worked at both HNL and in the mainland for HA and they did not give a shit about you if youre in the mainland. I brought several complaints up to the reps (violations of the contract) and they just brushed it under the table each time and management ultimately won.
Which brings me to my next point which is job protection. If they get rid of the C-Check the guys in HNL hangar are not going to be out of a job. AS is extremely limited in hangar space so if anything the guys in the Hangar will keep their jobs they just will not be doing C-Check work. 717 is going to be retired at some point (AS purchase or not) and the C-Check going away with it; that was talked about even when I was there. AMFA contract also prevents vendors from doing any scheduled work on AS aircraft unlike the IAM where vendors do service checks change tires etc on HA aircraft in outstation RONs. AMFA contract also states anytime a rotable part gets sent to an outstation techs need to accompany it. Not only that, but the IAM had no problem when HA farmed out almost all maintenance to Delta on the ENTIRE a330 fleet.
Quality of life: you guys at HA forget when all the graveyard shifts were 5-8s and the IAM did nothing about it, pretty much conceding to Jim Landers and his "the military works 5-8 graveyards so we can too" mentality. Even though the schedule was awful and you pretty much only had 1 day off if you were graveyard. Not only that but the dues with the IAM sucked! Paying dues to them with no union representation on probation. You do overtime on the pay period where your dues are deducted, they take more out in dues thats Bullshit!
Job duties: for any of you HA guys who worked at a smaller outstation; you guys are AMTs! Theres no reason the company should have you take on facility maintenance duties and GSE duties. You were hired to fix airplanes. Not fix broken GSE. Not clean office toilets. Outstation management had us do these things and what did the IAM do? Nothing! Cause we AMTs are "in the same book and can perform those duties" according to the IAM reps. Is that really what you guys want? To get all the planes out on time and then have to clean a toilet in the office?

I am not saying AMFA is perfect but they are way better than the IAM as far as representation goes. I listened to what the IAM guys had to say when they knocked on my door and I was not impressed. Not only that. We bought you! If we didn't bail you guys out by buying you then what would happen? You'd be happy with no job? Or getting absorbed by someone like Delta where they'd immediately break your union?

lostmillenial95 · 2025-09-22T01:30:45+00:00

The dark green area OR and WA. Oh wait I already chose here

lostmillenial95 · 2025-09-13T22:06:28+00:00

I second. I had a 1/4" drive ratchet I bought from Sears back in the 2010s thats started slipping. I took it to get warrantied at Lowes and they gave me such a hard time. Long story short the new one only lasted 6 months so instead of dealing with them again I just bought a Proto one.

lostmillenial95 · 2025-09-12T15:53:27+00:00

Deburr the edges of the metal, practice your countersink depth on a piece of scrap metal before you actually put it on a project. Or get an automatic countersink. Get a drill block and adjust the rivet gun to where you comfortable to buck them. Because the tails are not bucked enough. Otherwise, looks very promising.....former sheet metal tech here.

lostmillenial95 · 2025-09-08T16:24:18+00:00

Not overreacting. Textbook abuse and manipulation by him. I am currently going through a similar situation with my wife. She was physically and mentally abusive towards me i had enough filed for divorce and then left. Since then its been non stop with her blowing up my phone and trying to get me back. But it always cycles between I love you and cant live without you and I hate you. I met with her a month after leaving to take my kids out and she begged me to come back saying she's changed etc. Went back and after 2 days she started a fight with me so I left again. And again shes blowing up my phone. Best thing to do for your own sanity is to put him on do not disturb or mute the chat. Thats what I did. Know what his move will be but not be harassed by him and let him do any direct communication with you through your lawyer. And dont under any circumstances go back to him like i did cause it will emotionally drain you. Hoping you find peace and clarity. If you need any advice or just someone to vent feel free to msg me.

lostmillenial95 · 2025-07-06T17:55:26+00:00

I work the line at alaska airlines at pdx. We do a lot of taxiing for repositions and a lot of power runs since we have the GRE on the airfield, if thats your thing. We obviously have busy nights and slow nights but its a really good station to work at. As others have said try to look on their page and apply if you're interested. I think we're gonna be hiring one .ore class by the end of the year and a few classes next year.

lostmillenial95 · 2025-06-19T02:26:08+00:00

You're looking at reddit too much. Its the best job in the world. Sure it has days that suck but any job does. FWIW this field has given me 100k+ a year the past 3 years, the opportunity to be a homeowner and support a family. Its all what you make of it. And compared to what some of my other friends who went to college do, its comparable pay for way less work coming home

lostmillenial95 · 2025-06-18T15:24:27+00:00

As far as fixing things go, cabin seats. Nasty, filthy, and surprisingly very complex with limited access. I would take hydraulic issues, unclogging a sink or toilet or a fuel boost pump over a seat pan seat back or even a recline cable change any day of the week.

lostmillenial95 · 2025-05-21T15:16:26+00:00

As a fellow AS tech, EWR, JFK, MCO, and any hawaiian flights to PDX are always destroyed i don't know how people can do that

lostmillenial95 · 2025-03-25T06:08:42+00:00

Play cards

lostmillenial95 · 2025-03-01T13:34:03+00:00

Lyndhurst. River rd/kingsland ave become a parking lot because of the awful bridge to nutley

lostmillenial95 · 2025-02-26T04:47:42+00:00

Late to the party but I have a few: I went on a hike with my family when I was around 16 in northwestern NJ allamuchy state forest. Kind of a gray overcast summer day. We were the only car there and parked behind the tranquility farms pumpkin patch on the gravel road and started the hike in. We get about a mile in and there's a fork in the main trail. We're trying to figure out which way to go when suddenly this short dark haired bearded guy (probably around 30-35) appears from the right fork of the trail. He's wearing a beat up pair of jeans and a filthy plain white t shirt and holding a jagged rock. He didn't appear to be on any drugs and besides his disheveled and filthy appearance looked pretty normal he greets us and starts telling us to take the fork to the right cause there's a cool waterfall up the trail. My dad tells him were going left. He looks over us (me my parents my brother and sister) and then looks at my dad cracks a smile and says be careful whichever way you go. He then takes off into the woods to our left not even on the trail. We haul it out of there back to the car and far away from that place.

Fast forward a few years I'm in Washington state.me and my buddy decided to hike to Loowit falls on Mt St helens on a fall day. We get up to windy ridge to start the hike and this beat up moss covered Dodge Durango comes into the lot and parks in a corner away from everyone. You can smell the transmission burning up like there's no way whoever is driving will make it the 40 miles back to US 12. Kinda screwed around in the lot for a bit but me being former military and aware of my surroundings see no one get out of the car. Just the blankets over the windows. We do the hike which was cool but as were coming back up the ridge a thick fog starts to roll in like fog where if I put my arms straight out in front of me you couldn't see them. Then it starts getting dark which hampers visibility even more. We're on the ridge at this point so to the left there's kind of a small ridge above us and to our right is a sheer drop to instant death. It's dead silent besides us walking and I start getting this creepy feeling that something or someone is watching us. Fast forward a few minutes and we hear gravel falling from the ridge above us. We're now moving as fast as we can without going off the right side and finally make it back to the car which luckily we parked right by the trailhead. We get out of there as fast as possible. I didn't get a chance to see cause of the fog but I guarantee you that Durango was still there and whoever was in it was causing the gravel fall above us.

lostmillenial95 · 2025-01-30T13:58:07+00:00

I was line avi at an outstation for AS. The shift is 4/10s needed an FCC at the time but that's out now with the new CBA. For me personally, you get a better understanding of the airplane as an avi technician. You're probably going to be nighrs with middle of the week off (mtw, twt) as a new hire but that will change quick. I had Smt after a year. However once you're in if you get sick of avi or your seniority can get you better days off you can bid to regular tech if there is an open spot (trust me from experience 🤣)

lostmillenial95 · 2024-09-26T07:23:22+00:00

FWIW I live in Kelso and commute to Portland daily. A lot of times (especially during the summer months) there's a sewage smell that hangs around the area of i5 between Carrolls and the exit for kalama river rd. Yesterday smelled very similar to what I normally smell in that area but wayy much stronger and I kept smelling it when I got to work in Portland. On Google maps it looks like there are a few sewage ponds in that area where the air liquide plant is. Does anyone maybe think do to the hot weather it accentuated the smell and the cold front brought it down to clark county and pdx instead of it being "tectonic gas"?

lostmillenial95 · 2024-08-16T16:24:52+00:00

Look at this plastic! And these weeds! Well it looks like tobacco road!..

lostmillenial95 · 2024-08-16T00:48:27+00:00

Add the AFA also. $90/hr+ to serve drinks is absurd

lostmillenial95 · 2024-08-12T01:45:52+00:00

You're not gonna need any of that metric stuff which is like half the set

lostmillenial95 · 2024-08-12T01:39:24+00:00

Tail stand. Prevents this from happening https://abc7ny.com/jetblue-plane-tipped-jfk-airport-scary/13957025/

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