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Originally Posted by djflish
I'm currently in the process of joining the RAF (Royal Air Force).
I was originally going to be a helicopter pilot, but they won't let me fly because I have hay-fever! I was so gutted...
So now I'm grounded I'm going to be an Avionics Engineer.
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That's a new one for me ..... being rejected for Hay Fever. I would still feel good about avionics though.... You can build all the airframes, engines, and flight controls you want, and then assemble them. But, if you don't have a good set of avionics to tie everything together, that ship ain't gonna fly.
I spent 12 years as a general mechanic... and I always had a deep respect for our "wire chasers". I can read a wiring schematic, and about half the time make sense out of it, as long as I understand the systems on that particular ship... but it takes a lot of patience and attention to detail to work that side of aviation maintenance. When a general mechanic works on a component such as an engine, rotors, or what not...it is easy to see the progress he/she is making. But in avionics so much of it is hidden behind everything else.
While I worked for DynCorp AeroSpace, we trained a team of mechanics as well as their pilots from the Royal Netherlands Air Force. They purchased a fleet of Apache Helicopters, and went through the same training at Ft.Hood that the US Military sent their aviation battalions through.
Good luck !
