Occupation of 370Z heads

FricFrac · 01-02-2009, 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Alexus

16-month intensive formation at l'École nationale d'aérotechnique du Québec (basically translates to National Aéronautics School of Québec) if you already have 12 months of post-secondary education (so college or trade school basically), or 3 years if you don't. Technicians in avionics and other fields such as aerospace materials are in high demand due to the retirement of baby-boomers. Wages vary from anywhere from $65k-$120k a year.

TACAN systems are used in a military application. I work on civilian aircraft, mainly transatlantic commercial airliners such as Boeing 777. Civil aviation uses the VOR/DME system, which is very similar. In fact, TACAN is a type of VOR/DME system used for military aviation.

Interesting - I was told they had Tacans at the comercial fields as well - must be the variant they were thinking of.... never could figure out why you'd want a system that tells everyone where you are located for use with the Military

Pushing_Tin · 01-02-2009, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by FricFrac

Interesting - I was told they had Tacans at the comercial fields as well - must be the variant they were thinking of.... never could figure out why you'd want a system that tells everyone where you are located for use with the Military

I'm an air traffic controller and you are correct. Most airports have a co-located Vortac/Tacan. We get a fair number of military practice approaches that use the Tacan. Some of them don't even have VHF radios!

Greg · 01-02-2009, 05:51 AM

The last toy maker to the king.

Our corporate office

DaBXRoMeO · 01-02-2009, 08:09 AM

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zhound · 01-02-2009, 08:22 AM

I'm the IT Network Lead for a contracting company in Iraq.

CrownR426 · 01-02-2009, 01:27 PM

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Been saving money since I was 15.

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GVOELLER · 01-02-2009, 11:48 PM

minimally invasive surgeon for 22 years

Devil Z · 01-03-2009, 05:43 AM

Certified A+ technician working to get my license in the field so I may work as a repair tech and continue school advancing in the career level.

dave · 01-03-2009, 09:15 AM

manager for a cell phone company running 2 locations

Black kNight · 01-03-2009, 12:51 PM

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second year now .( Accounting )

sirploppy · 01-03-2009, 01:13 PM

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Crash · 01-03-2009, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by sirploppy

I write code. C#, VB, PERL, Cold Fusion, C++, Javascript. Always something new coming out to learn too...

Learn the important ones now! PHP, Ruby, etc...

Those in combination with PERL and Javascript, you'll be in business! (Forget the Micro$oft languages... That's going to be a dead company soon and those languages will be left behind.)

Cool to see another language savvy person on the board!

shumby · 01-03-2009, 04:58 PM

^^^^ fortran for the win

drmike · 01-03-2009, 05:31 PM

PASCAL for teh lose.

sirploppy · 01-03-2009, 05:42 PM

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PASCAL for teh lose.

Ha! I also write code for a Navision system in which the custom code engine is VERY much like Pascal. Thought I was done with that forever after y2k!

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