You might be an aircraft mechanic if...
- You've ever slept on the concrete under a wing.
- You've ever said "Oh yes sir, its supposed to look like that"
- You know what JP4 or 145 octane tastes like.
- You've ever used a black grease pencil to fix an overworked tire.
- You have a better bench-stock in the pockets of your coveralls then the
supply system.
- You've ever used a piece of safety wire as a toothpick.
- You've ever been told to go get "some prop wash and a yard of
flight-line."
- You've ever worked a 14 hour shift on a aircraft that isn't flying the
next day.
- You can sleep anywhere, anytime, but as soon as the engines shut down
you are wide-awake.
- You've ever stood on wheel chocks to keep your feet dry.
- Used dikes to trim fingernails.
- Wiped leaks immediately prior to crew show.
- Wondered where they keep finding the idiots that keep making up stupid
rules.
- You've ever had to de-fuel an aircraft an hour after refueling it.
- You've used a wheel chock as a hammer.
- You know more about your coworkers than your own family.
- You ever wished the pilot would say "Great Airplane".
- You've ever wondered why it takes a college degree to break an airplane
but only a high school diploma to fix one.
- You have used a wooden chock as a pillow while sleeping on a pushback
tug.
- You have scuba dived a lav tank to remove everything under the sun.
- You have had a pilot ask you why the valve stems on all the tires are
not the same size.
- You have had a steering bypass pin fall out during a blinding snowstorm
while in a near red-line turn.....BOOM!!!
- You have had a starter hang while performing a manual start on a
RC-130!!!!
- You just screwed up something really expensive.....D'OH!!!!
- You have seen the "northern lights" inside the cabin while being shocked
by a ballast (200v).
- You have had fire lick the back of your neck after getting that inop APU
FINALLY started (tub removed).
- You have told someone that you are an aircraft mechanic only to have
them say, "But not on the engines...right?"
- You have been blamed by management for looking where you were NOT
SUPPOSED TO BE LOOKING.
- You have wanted to put your foot up a pilot's butt on many occasions.
- You have wished that you had chosen a different career.