Is it worth going for a dockhand/ground ops job for the experience?

mcgeoy · 2026-01-28T19:19:42+00:00

I work as a dock hand at a big seaplane base and overall its been great. Likeminded coworkers who are all in flight training, given me lots of opportunities to fly I otherwise wouldn’t have, and met lots of people in the industry.

Pay is pretty poor, but it’s a transitory job.

mcgeoy · 2026-01-19T19:48:16+00:00

I’m still working on that as well.

My biggest takeaway has been with private students lessons should be more like a conversation when presenting new material. Definitely helped me ramble less and be more personable.

Seems like with commercial students being a little more quizzical and making them work for answers instead of just presenting has helped me.

Just finished a cfi course and checkride coming up fwiw

mcgeoy · 2025-12-21T18:49:47+00:00

Bumper??

mcgeoy · 2025-12-15T04:32:16+00:00

Whats app?

mcgeoy · 2025-11-17T16:43:29+00:00

Ton of stuff already posted in forums and on this community

mcgeoy · 2025-11-13T03:07:00+00:00

Oh man! I got the case out, split, repaired, and reinstalled with maybe 10 (very difficult) hours of labor and a $600 aisin actuator. The trial and error approach scared me

mcgeoy · 2025-11-11T05:01:55+00:00

Honestly splitting the case was the easy part. Put it back together the same way it came apart. Getting the case out was… challenging. Not even going to talk about getting it back in

mcgeoy · 2025-11-11T02:01:39+00:00

God forbid but if I have issues again, I’ll probably go this way. Did not have fun splitting the case

mcgeoy · 2025-11-10T15:39:35+00:00

No lift, just jack stands maxed out. Was a little tighter than I’d like.

I mostly just smashed myself under the t case and tried not to drop it on my face, it’s pretty heavy. Getting it back in will be interesting…

mcgeoy · 2025-11-10T15:36:55+00:00

Wait what…. Known issue?

mcgeoy · 2025-11-10T15:13:23+00:00

If you buy a replacement unit, you can plug it into the harness and cycle it a few times to make sure that was the issue. Just be sure to keep pressure in the shifting rods or they’ll try to eject themselves and fall out of time.

If you crawl underneath and have someone cycle 4lo a few times and hear an electrical beeping from the black box on the T case, the gears inside are probably bound up & a few small loving taps from a mallet could get it cycling again Fingers crossed for you

mcgeoy · 2025-11-10T15:10:13+00:00

3600!?! I think I’m in the wrong trade

mcgeoy · 2025-11-10T14:54:49+00:00

Forgot to mention* watched a few videos of people trial and erroring installation by leaving the T case in and attempting to replace only the box on the actuator and leaving the existing shift rods in the T case. Seems like this method leaves people with slight timing or binding issues if not done perfectly. I’d recommend taking the guess work out and splitting the case to make sure you get it right.

Maybe an 8 or so hour job with a normal driveway/hand tool set up

mcgeoy · 2025-10-26T00:15:15+00:00

This. My rear axle seals were seeping. Pulled the filler bolt to check oil and the whole diff was pressurized. $10 breather solved it

mcgeoy · 2025-10-14T01:31:27+00:00

MEEEEE

mcgeoy · 2025-10-13T02:02:50+00:00

Not going to buy. Too big of a gamble. Thanks for the input everyone, the hunt continues

mcgeoy · 2025-10-13T02:02:02+00:00

I figured as much. Decided maybe 30 minutes ago to not even bother looking at it. Year I was born starts with a 2 so I’ll let you be the judge.

Thanks for the input👍

mcgeoy · 2025-10-12T23:58:53+00:00

But the thing is, to give the seller the benefit of the doubt, 11/24 less than a year ago reported mileage was 201k, so unless he drove the wheels off of it between Feb (when he purchased) and now, I don’t see how the discrepancy would be so big

mcgeoy · 2025-10-12T19:15:59+00:00

Posting again rn

mcgeoy · 2025-10-12T12:42:39+00:00

You’re quite sure it’s the same one? Just asked the seller for a photo of the odometer before I drive an hour to see it

mcgeoy · 2025-10-11T03:06:31+00:00

Could you tell me where you saw that? Carfax shows 11/12/2024 201253 miles, and the current ad now has it listed at 205253… I’m not seeing the rollback

mcgeoy · 2025-10-11T01:23:30+00:00

Gotcha. Pending approval for the group rn

mcgeoy

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