A Day in the Life of an AMT Student

I remember watching this the morning I started General 1. I remember thinking that this is too complicated and I was scared shitless, now I’m in airframe 2 and I understand everything they’re doing.

"I ordered some, then I found 2 bags" Isn't that how it always works? (and most would almost never find those bags had he NOT ordered more) Guy seems like a good instructor, keep up the morale, sir! (and eye protection demands) The world needs more of you.

I’m an airline AMT with a major airline. I started in the military as a helicopter mechanic. I went to Rice Aviation at Broward College (BCC) when I got out of the Army. That school made the difference in my interview. It showed how serious I was to my employer. 35 years later I look back and think I made the right decision. I got the job(career), the girl (wife of 35 years) and outperformed all of my childhood friends financially. It tooksmart/hard work to get through the school and through the door at the airline. The reward is a top pay scale of is $120,000 with no overtime and $250,000 if you’re a workaholic. Just remember... you’re only as good as your last push out from the gate.

After a 40 year career and retired a few years ago i can say aviation was the best thing for me. I loved it. Still do. Worked airline. Wouldn't go back to that. Spent most of my time in general aviation. King Air, Citation, Falcon, etc. Much less specialization and pretty much did it all. I loved troubleshooting problems daily. Assembly/rigging and engine work was my happy place. Living in Texas it was hot, cold, wet at various times. Just dressed for it. Find your niche and remember the A&P is just a license to learn......I learned something everyday.

I'm in my first year of studying Aviation Maintenance Science, and I believe riveting is what we are gonna do next semester. Awesome first person view video.

Don't worry about A&P school that licenses just to get you in the door....I got 34 years experience Air Force and Southwest Airlines...you tend to specialize in the certain areas I never do sheet metal work and if I do I tend to do it with somebody who's got 20 plus experience in sheet metal and that's all they do....I mainly just did flight controls and I guess general aviation stuff engine changes door changes stuff like that...if you want to make money get experience wherever you can get it and get into the major airlines

Interesting. Thx for sharing. Cool instructor too. Watching from Ontario Canada 🎉

I remember doing stuff like this a couple months back in Airframe, all the riveting and sheet metal repairs and the rest of them. Now going through Avionics, then Powerplant........I was in tech and didn't see myself in the aviation industry, but it's growing on me.

Appreciate a lot this kind video 👏👏👏👏

wow, I did all these in my school, thank you for sharing

I like it man, good content keep it up.

I'm going into a school for this soon.It looks fun

Structures is really the only one where I got to actually do stuff in the shop.

This was vary helpful, thank you.

Thats a cool instructor

Excellent.

Literally just did a tour of the facility that I will be taking the courses at. Thanks for this vid. I’m nervous af…

If you can get a CA in sheet metal, helped me a lot with all this he did in the video. Could legit make those parts in 2 mins tops

I’m a HC/MC-130J crew chief and you low key scarring me bout aircraft maintenance in the civilian world👀

Never had sheet metal in my practical with my DME. 😀