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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

05 June 2013 - QT

QT

NO. I am not calling myself a CUTIE. QT means qualified technician. Basically, it means you are allowed to touch the aircraft now and go work your ass off over it.

What a QT is allowed to do, is basically service the aircraft and sign for the various jobs you did. Which includes various types of servicing. I dont want to be caught for releasing restricted information, so let's just keep that a secret.

I have always helped the seniors with their servicing, but never did we ever do it on our own and signed for the documentation of the job. The feeling was unreal and a little nerve wrecking. Not that I didn't know what to do, ( slightly, because I am not very knowledgeable but enough to get by) more like, I am afraid I missed out something or dont know things enough to do a good enough job for the pilots who are going to fly the aircraft.

So on the first day, the seniors were just OVERJOYED to have someone to share that burden with. In a sense, also a priviledge to touch the aircraft, but lets save that for my ORD reflection. And being the absolutely the 'BEST' seniors they can be, they made us signed everything ( but only those that we did of course.) even those that they could sign for us. Basically, my batch was sharing our experience about how our signatures now are all over the documents and the nervousness of it. We were asking MILLIONS of questions during our servicing about anything suspicious and before we signed anything.

I tried to help others out, as I could now sign for the jobs, by relieving some of the workload by helping out on certain areas of the aircraft. However, it made me forget about my job that day, which was refuelling. I got screwed pretty bad for it. But, that's not important YET.

Anyway, I know it sounds easy, just pen your signature down for the job you did. But, in some way, people's lives are at stake. MILLIONS of dollars are at stake here. All the what-ifs going through our mind, like, "WHAT IF I NEVER SEE SOMETHING? AIRCRAFT CRASH. I DIE SIA." Basically, all the what ifs ended with the same conclusion, CRASH AND CONSEQUENCES.

You will literally shrink in size.

But we were just starting out, you couldnt blame us. This is not the type of pressure we were used to getting.

Oh, before I forgot. I was scolded for not remembering my job scope and being a busybody on helping others. WHAT THE HECK?! It's wrong to help others. That's really the message you want to send to people in an organisation whose values include team excellence?! Someone else could have just helped me out. Helping one another, isnt that how it should be. Ridiculous.

All in all, it wasnt the most fun experience, but memorable nonetheless, especially now that I have qualified for a few months and aircraft servicing is like bread and butter to us now.

NERVES OF STEEL. You really need that for this day.

-Signing Off-

I'm still breathing;
8:30 PM