A/c 706

[700UW]

A/C 706 is in Charlotte, it came in last night and has a landing gear problem (not even a month out of S-check from foriegn owned ST MAE@BFM).

Seems there is one problem, the aircraft needs to be jacked up so a gear swing can be accomplished. This means it needs to wing jacks and one nose jack.

When the mechanics went to get the three jacks, they were not in CLT anymore, seems the really intelligent maintenance management sent the jacks to Mobile, AL.

So now we have an airplane grounded as it cannot be jacked in the air to have the required gear swing done, to ensure the plane is fixed properly.

Great planning and tooling department as US Airways.

 

[ringmaruf]

Hey, you can't expect US to stock parts in a tiny little outstation like CLT. 🙄

 

[Fleazle]

**sigh** Typical BS; that is appalling to not have jacks at a heavy maintenance base.

 

[Phantom Fixer]

Hey, you can't expect US to stock parts in a tiny little outstation like CLT. 🙄

You would be amazed at what's in Mobile(BFM) rather than CLT or PIT.

Line Aircraft are suffering delays in their returns to service due to vast numbers of needed parts and tooling being out of the route system inventory...but when you have the evil unionized labor force to lay all the blame on , one can only assume that thier is no problems with this picture. 🙄

FYI....anyone care to speculate as to why 700UW has been out of service for a few days lately ? 😛

 

[cavalier]

**sigh** Typical BS; that is appalling to not have jacks at a heavy maintenance base.

This is what the future looks like to this management team. The mechanics have no future, so please Mr. Airplane and all you other bizarre thinkers out there please explain to me why I or my fellow co-workers should support anything at all Dave Siegel comes up with. Why would I support myself out into the streets? This is what Dave wants. Funny though: I sat there and listened to him say live and in person "we don't want to outsource heavy maintenance". This guy is a liar, a farce of a CEO or even a man and you have people on here like piney trying to explain to me where I went wrong, what I didn't do right and why U employees are foolish. Such posters are as insane as Dave and this management team is. To all you people telling me not to be selfish and sacrifice myself so others may go on, fine, come with me then and lets both jump into the volcano together and hold hands, will you do that for me? Yep, just what I thought....

 

[pitguy]

Good post Cav. Some posters want you to do as they say, but not as they do or would do.

 

[A320 Driver]

A/C 706 is in Charlotte, it came in last night and has a landing gear problem (not even a month out of S-check from foriegn owned ST MAE@BFM).

Seems there is one problem, the aircraft needs to be jacked up so a gear swing can be accomplished. This means it needs to wing jacks and one nose jack.

When the mechanics went to get the three jacks, they were not in CLT anymore, seems the really intelligent maintenance management sent the jacks to Mobile, AL.

So now we have an airplane grounded as it cannot be jacked in the air to have the required gear swing done, to ensure the plane is fixed properly.

Great planning and tooling department as US Airways.

I find that interesting. MAE does all of United's heavy maintenance on the A320s. Seems they should already have plenty of jacks down there.

Also, a month generates a lot of cycles on our aircraft. This isn't necessarily a problem caused by anything done on an S check.

A320 Driver

 

[700UW]

If you don't believe me go check with Charlotte Line Maintenance Management. UAL's tooling is used for UAL's planes as that is why US sent their own tooling down to BFM.

 

[A320 Driver]

If you don't believe me go check with Charlotte Line Maintenance Management. UAL's tooling is used for UAL's planes as that is why US sent their own tooling down to BFM.

I didn't say I didn't believe you...I do. I just said I found it interesting.

A320 Driver

 

[ClueByFour]

YEah, ask UA about the job the guys at ST do on Airbus landing gear 😀

 

[A320 Driver]

We've all got a skeleton or two in the closet.

A320 Driver

 

[sentrido]

Why is US sending equipment to STS to do work US claims they havent got the equipment to do?

 

[MCI transplant]

<_< A320driver----- I believe the man means any potential grear problems should have been cought at the "S" check!!! And yes! It could happen! But shouldn't have!

 

[insp89]

Why is US sending equipment to STS to do work US claims they havent got the equipment to do?

I believe the answer to your question is very simple, Management seems to have difficulty with anything that resembles the TRUTH..

 

[A320 Driver]

<_< A320driver----- I believe the man means any potential grear problems should have been cought at the "S" check!!! And yes! It could happen! But shouldn't have!

Like bearing and drag link problems?

A320 Driver

Nobody's perfect...not even the IAM.