Article Classification
Source:
MAGAZINE
Publication:
HeliMx
Issue Date:
April 1, 2014 (All day)
Issue Year:
2014
Issue Month:
April
Issue Day:
01
Page Number:
36
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Department:
Careers
It began at HELI-EXPO 2013 in Las Vegas. Safran Turbomeca was holding a symposium on “The Shortage of A&P/AME Mechanics in the Workplace.” The symposium had representatives from Safran, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Eurocopter, Agusta Westland, Bell, Sikorsky, Air Methods, Bristow, Honeywell, GE, Total and Petrobras, to name a few. It was an impressive get together and there was a tremendous amount of expertise and time served in the helicopter industry represented. What we found to be most interesting was a fact that for most of us who work or have worked for helicopter companies in the U.S. have known for awhile, that we were encountering a shortage of A&P mechanics … but we are not alone. The problem is a global one and the symposium brought that to light in very definitive terms.
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