Cripes, I slept for 14 hours! After a seriously long night/day yesterday. I started a nightshift on Wednesday night and as it was my first night on, I do what I normally do, wake up around 9am (little lie in!), stay awake all day and go to work. I'm an engineer for an airline.

 

The first night is always a hard slog but on Wednesday night/ Thursday morning about 4am we had a problem with an aeroplane in Malta... not unusual to have one go pear shaped down route, so I hop on our Learjet which was bought especially for attending to nadgered planes.

 

A fair old trek down to Malta at over 3 hours (especially on my lonesome) and we park up next to the broken plane, I hop off my private jet (lol) and put a 6/32" (tiny) screw in part of the fwd entry door which probably took less than a minute, sign up the paperwork and off we go back home again. Up to this point a relatively normal down route jolly...

 

On the long trip home, flying over Paris @ 40,000ft, I was taking in the views watching the in flight 'airshow' which shows you the route, eta, what's around and all sorts of exciting details! when the inflight phone rang in the flight deck, the skipper answered it and then started pressing buttons on his screen which edits the flight plan. This also edits the 'airshow' screen and it soon became apparent that we weren't going home! The skipper gives me the phone and I was asked by our maintenance controllers if I was up for diverting to Krakow, Poland to inspect a bird strike. I'm always up for a little adventure so off we go after an unscheduled stop in Paris to fill up with fuel.

 

Another 3 hours flying, we park up next to the plane (full of punters) that was, by this point, delayed by nearly 4 hours, I hop off my private jet! A quick inspection of the #2 engine, which was covered in guts and feathers to assess the damage, all is good so I raise paperwork for a boroscope inspection that night, sign everything up and off we go again.

 

Didn't get home until 6pm Thursday afternoon so I was given that night off, but I didn't feel tired and was awake till about 2am this morning (playing bf3!). Top sleep!

 

40,000ft over Turin (Alps):

40 hours awake...all of the above text is a big factor in me trying to find out if Joel has serviced my aircraft before i fly...:laugh:

Imagine the cost of replacing that screw lol, nice job, i guess it doesnt always have its little perks.

got any jobs going, damn sounds like my sort of adventure lol

40 hours awake...all of the above text is a big factor in me trying to find out if Joel has serviced my aircraft before i fly...:laugh:

 

Let me know when you're flying... I'll 'go over' it for you muhahaha!

 

Imagine the cost of replacing that screw lol, nice job, i guess it doesnt always have its little perks.

 

Skipper worked out the cost of the day to be about 15k in fuel plus our wages! If you mean travelling about as a perk, I guess I take it for granted really as we quite regularly galavant around to various places, although rarely for such a seemingly pointless task. I'd consider a perk as discounted flights... no chance!

 

got any jobs going, damn sounds like my sort of adventure lol

 

Always jobs going matey :)

Wow, sounds like an interesting job :)

 

I used to love flying, but nowadays I hate it, don't know why? just cant wait to get off the fookers!....I`ve just come back from Greece on a 767-300 and the engine`s seemed mahoosive they looked too big for the wings ,lol !!!! have they gone bigger over the years?

Edited August 17, 201213 yr by daZvert