3 ways to become a Jet Tech

[@sheep1ewe]

This is clearly the best channel about the topic on the entire KZbin.

[@gregeconomeier1476]

Please don't let the knuckle heads get you down. They must be ignored. You produce an excellent video product.

[@c.daniel2528]

Thank you AgentJayZ for taking the time to share your passion through all your videos. Thank you!

[@rodneyroach7048]

In America there are many course that prep you for your FAA license for power plant cert. if you have experience in the industry there are two week cram course to prep you for the test only and set up a test date and help you through it. If you have no experience you can take those course that you are talking about. Most of the places for work Ive found care more about experience then a certification because they will hire you at lower pay for probation period to get the licence once you get it then you come off the probations period. if your young military 4 year contract in the USAF jet techs jobs will give you all the experience you need and also allow you to have security clearance to work with almost any company in America. 14 years jet tech and still learning its not a job its a hobby that pays love the channel.

[@scottmarshall6766]

My son gets his Mechanical engineering degree this year, and he is shockingly uneducated. He needs a few years in a shop cleaning parts while persuing one of your suggested paths. Thanks for your insight on how to get into the field, It may suit him.

[@snowminkankles1401]

Great video! I live in Southern California and I’m getting my airframe and power plant license (A&P) at the Van Nuys airport. which will allow me to work as an aviation mechanic. It’s 2 and a half years

[@gavares3]

you're so rad. please dont stop making videos. This is a really interesting world you get to live in. what a cool job.

[@Mrsournotes]

Ewan McGregor, cool! “Long Way Round” and “Long Way Down” I highly recommend reading.

[@obsoleteprofessor2034]

Re theory as opposed to just being shown how to remove and replace. I was in Tucson (79?) when an A-7 crashed into the University. Talk on the flightline was that they had had several low fuel pressure lights on prior flights. The newbees cleaned out the screen which was full of aluminum shavings and no one thought that was unusual. The fuel pump eventually ate itself up.

[@AgentJayZ]

Jeez, I'd expect somebody to put 2 and 2 together...

[@manoel737]

THE BEST !!! Wish i was 18 today, and for shure i would look for a Job like yours ! I was a Marine Engineer for about 10 years, ans now in a Electricity Power Plant in Portugal. I love Aviation, i have an ultralight pilot license, but i always love more the Aviation Engines. Here in Portugla we have not to many Schools like thea you refer ! Hope my son with 18 years now, could get passion for this technologies and perhaps became abroad, a good AIRCRAFT GAS TURBINE ENGINE OVERHAUL TECHNICIAN !!! Best regards !

[@keith38able]

cranky? You deserved to be cranky at the least if not just straight pissed off, I commend you for checking your attitude.

[@lm1584]

I can speak, having been a shop-level turbine (PT6) O/H technician and a line-level turbine technician (CF6) for Air Canada. IN CANADA - do not get into the aviation industry unless you are ready for: a) low pay b) low chances of finding work to begin with c) moving around the world to find work d) laid off due to lack of work (even before the C19 debacle) I would LOVE to do this for fun, or something on the side for sure though.

[@ArjotGill]

hello i want to migrate to canada for masters in mechanical can you clear me where is the best in canada..thank you :)

[@lm1584]

@@ArjotGill best for what? to work in mechanical engineering?

[@markthompson4885]

And thank you for showing us your passion. I love my Starrett Vernier Micrometer too.

[@gtr1952]

I still have, and use the same pair of 'safety wire pliers' I bought new in 1974 for $49. Over the years they have also served as early ' nylon wire tie and duct tape' solutions on my motorcycles. 8)

[@ericmacke3072]

thanks for the great scoop for my 16 year old son. he attends west michigan aviation academy and they are in the process of building a carbon cub to add to their fleet of 172's. if you ever want to test your riding skills, you are welcome to come down to ride grattan and gingerman race tracks. ive got a sv1000 you can strap on. thank you for sharing your hard earned knowledge! fast but safe!

[@PattyRusts]

Keep up the videos. Been building an testing Gas Turbines for the guts of 10 years. Its handy to show people when they ask what i do for a living 😁

[@acefighterpilot]

The system in the states is a bit different to how you do it in Canada. Here, an FAA certificated part 147 maintenance school is the only legitimate academic route. Many community colleges and technical schools offer such a program, but a potential student should be sure to check their certification; most schools will display their certificate prominently. After the student completes the FAA approved curriculum of at least 1900 hours' instruction, usually equally split between practical and classroom training, they may test for their Airframe and Powerplant certificate, which is both a foot in the door into the big industry and also a legally required license to do repairs outside of the context of a part 145 certificated repair station. Alternatively, 30 months of supervised work experience can qualify a prospective mechanic to test for their A&P, but expect to do several weeks of intensive studying in that case. The A&P tests cover literally everything from grade A cotton wing coverings and rotary engines to advanced composites and FADEC gas turbines. We don't have a booklet like what CCAA provides, instead there is a catch all restriction that a mechanic cannot independently complete a task they haven't satisfactorily completed under supervision before. Frankly our system is outdated and at times laughable. Just ask any A&P about checking the level of an R12 refrigerant system in the presence of an open flame.

[@dtvtechrp]

Ugh phosgene gas no good

[@C-M-E]

Having watched The Library of videos at the KZbin Museum of AgentJayZ and having downtime yesterday from my project, I restarted the whole Your Question playlist. Seeing this in my email that we're getting an actual video after people have been asking this same question after at least 7 years, yes, I dropped everything and came out to the workshop to see if this was real. 0_0

[@DougHanchard]

Glad you did this video for your fans. It's needed because there is a shortage of qualified AMEs.

[@huskedworkz1766]

Probably one of the few channels about aircraft maintenance ❤

[@Miata822]

Always entertaining. I have learned so much watching your videos though I may never work on an aircraft type turbine engine. I have long wanted to build a turbojet engine based on a supercharger ever since seeing one (a pair actually) being marketed to defrost frozen railway switches. All my spare time and reading back then focused on the machines I was designing, not jets. Since then I have seen many amateur builds of turbojet engines on KZbin but none seemed in any way practical (600mph leaf blower anyone?) and many seemed genuinely dangerous. Having sold my business I have started thinking again about building an engine using a secondary turbine to turn a mechanical output, perhaps driving a hydraulic pump. Electronic controls have become much more accessible in recent years which could really help make this project functional and safe. Your videos have opened my eyes to how much I *Don't* know about theory and guided me toward the information sources I need. I fully understand why you don't go into full detail on service procedures. If I blow myself up, well, that's fully on me. Not everyone thinks like that though. Thank you for your videos and the effort you put into them. Best wishes for a happy and profitable new year.

[@markbell9742]

Thanks AgentJayZ: My S&S Turbine services tee shirts arrived today. Cheers, Mark * * *

[@watchfordpilot]

Bugger! I'm 40 years too late! But, I never stop being interesting in 'things'and having fun learning. Agree with Dan below - cheers!

[@AgentJayZ]

I was close to that age when I changed careers...

[@WanJae42]

Awesome display! That was a fun tour of your showcase!

[@glennriley8737]

Jay enjoy your videos keep up the good work

[@grahamj9101]

On the subject of the accessories being crammed into the nose bullets of the first axial flow engines and then someone having the bright idea of a radial drive, check out the Metropolitan-Vickers F.2/Beryl engine. First run in 1941, its accessory gearbox was mounted on top of the intake casing, with a radial drive.

[@lerkzor]

Good morning Jay, and thanks for taking the time to share all that information with us. I have always loved your hands-on repair videos, and have asked you several times in the past for more of them, but from hints I got in this video, it seems unlikely. Sad, but understandable, and I will quit asking :) As for me personally, infotainment is exactly what I deserve. If I were serious about joining your elite club, I would get my lazy carcass down to a center of higher learning and actually take some courses. Have a good one! o/

[@pratiknaik1050]

Your videos are great and they help me alot in my studies and syllabus. I'm into aircraft maintenance engineering and ur videos help me alot in all of the subjects in the whole curriculum. Please continue and keep up the good work..🙏🙏 once again thank u so much

[@sprout5199]

I know I'm a bit late but I think you forgot another way of becoming a turbine engine technician, the MILTARY. I became an electronics technician through the US Navy and have spent the last 29 years doing what I love--fixing radios. Dan in Jupiter

[@AgentJayZ]

If I did not mention that, I apologize! My younger cousin, back in the day, wanted to fly helicopters, and was worried about the cost... I suggested joining the air force (here in Canada the air force does not look down upon choppers). He turned out to be pretty good in the trainers, so he ended up in CF-18 Hornets, and flew combat missions...over there... Now he's a 787 pilot in command.

[@jamesmason2228]

Were I a recruiter for the services - I would try to get you to you to visit and video turbine techs working aboard ship and/or caring for aircraft power plants. I doubt that they tear down engines as completely as your shop does - but the care, feeding and principles of operation would all seem the same. ???

[@hommie789]

Cool video Jay, well said. I am going to Alaska also this summer, we are doing the "ride to the midnight sun" to Fairbanks for the summer solstice on June 21. I have done this a few times now and there is an entire weeks celebration around it. Maybe I shall see you there.

[@AgentJayZ]

There's an idea.

[@MrZ676]

Hello there Jay, love your video's! Have you ever worked on powerplant gasturbines like Alstom, GE or Siemens? I work on a powerplant using the Siemens V94.3 gasturbines (265MW output)

[@TheAlignmentGuy_TM]

My ASE paperwork expired in 2011. None of my customers care. Reputation > paperwork. Signed, one grateful shop owner. JMF TAG

[@AgentJayZ]

Duly noted: the nit has been well and truly picked.

[@TheAlignmentGuy_TM]

Sorry. Johnny come lately didn't read the other comments. JMF TAG

[@nmccw3245]

Ha! Being cranky with idiots is perfectly acceptable.

[@ronjon7942]

The Arrow engine. Sad day for you guys, a masterpiece, best there never was, up there w the TSR2 and F-108.

[@drdanman9543]

Hey, agent Jay, love shows! - 2 jet questions: do oil pumps have a sump? what happens from gravity if plane inverted? 2) I believe 14:1 air/fuel mixture on gas engine stoichiometrics. Do modern jet engines have device/ electronics to shoot for that ideal number similar to car computer?

[@AgentJayZ]

Turbine engines are "dry sump", meaning all oil is pumped to a separate reservoir by scavenge pumps. The inverted flight question is always asked, tiresome to explain, and is dealt with in several videos on my channel. 2) like a campfire, or a candle, jet fuel is burned in an environment of excess oxygen. The flame takes what it needs, and there us no mixture control.

[@derekcrymble9085]

I remand ABB and MAN marine diesel blades for 20 years . Now they just replace with new . Too bad because it was good work . Would go back to it if I could . Weld with inconel s.s. grind and reshape reinstall and tip grind to blue print to fit shroud ring bore . Keep up the good work .

[@oscarzt1652]

0:45 no way was that letter from ewan mcgregor very cool

[@AgentJayZ]

Yes, everybody knows that. Try to keep up, will you?

[@ChristOMalley]

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[@equaltothetaskaviation6440]

nice one mate - good follow up to your last video

[@davidcastanedamarin3510]

Thank you so much, Greetings from Bucaramanga Colombia!

[@richglenn3729]

Off topic question. I really enjoyed your work on the jet boats a few years back. Are you planning on doing any more of that in the future? But then, I enjoy all your videos too.

[@saeedhabibzadeh749]

It would be great if you made videos about honeycomb sealings in turbines.

[@DScottDuncan]

Thank you for the display & info... I appreciate your work!

[@stevenhoman2253]

Happy new year. Love your show.

[@zapfanzapfan]

The flag could be from Ewan's brother who if memory serves is in the Royal Airforce. That might make someone keenly interested in engine maintenance in order to not have a too exciting day at the office :-)

[@goat3898]

Odd question for you. Has anyone ever used an engine that runs on natural gas and ran afterburners on a natural gas engine or even jet fuel and natural gas? I’m sure there would be any use using afterburners in an industrial environment just curious if you would have a loss or gain in power with natural gas and jet fuel afterburning or the other way around.

[@grahamj9101]

Quite recently, a contributor told us that he worked with an Industrial Trent engine that had a reheat/afterburner arrangement in the gas turbine exhaust in a combined cycle plant. I don't think that he mentioned the fuel, but I have no doubt that it could have been either liquid or gaseous - or both. There are numerous aero-derived industrial gas turbines in use that are dual fuelled. The Industrial Olympus that AgentJayZ has shown us in the past had a dual fuelled version. This meant that it could change over from diesel to natural gas while running at power and it could even run on a proportioned mixture of the two. I have discussed the principle of having a reheat/afterburner arrangement in the duct between a gas generator and its power power turbine in the past. I carried out a design concept study on such an arrangement many years ago. It is perfectly feasible and would provide a substantial increase in power. However, it would be relatively inefficient, for the same reason that an afterburner in a jet engine is inefficient. It would also be an expensive means of producing an increase in power and the engine would be even more inefficient if it was run with the reheat/afterburner shut down.

[@ke6gwf]

A natural gas fired Co-Gen plant I worked at had an afterburner of sorts, but it was past the turbine. It ran the waste heat from the turbine into a boiler to create steam for the multiple facilities, including heat and a/c, and on very cold and very hot days the turbine didn't create enough heat, and so the afterburner would light up to add additional heat for the boiler.

[@grahamj9101]

@@ke6gwf That makes sense for combined cycle/co-generation.

[@VulcanSimulator]

So with Ewan as a subscriber are you now able to repair “The Force” generators?

[@lawrenceveinotte]

i'll be the millionth to ask, what happens next with the Orenda Iroquois you have?

[@gavinwilkins5466]

I build and work on the jet engines for the remote control model aircraft

[@joandrade7077]

Hey 😃❗️Happy New Year ❗️

[@decampsdissidentdotardpres6909]

Thank you for uploading this stuff.

[@jw4620]

Wow! Thanks!

[@ericmacke3072]

Special AgentJayZ - please set up a patreon account so we can slip you a few loonies for the hard work. I have a feeling you are not the type of guy to agree to that so if not, please direct us to some grand cause that you want us to help out with. ( maybe a fresh set of Dunlop's for the SV? ) Like you, some of us don't like taking stuff for free so we are in a quandary here. We will have to stop watching if you don't take something aka: a Mexican standoff. (the third party being youtube who I'm sure is not writing anyone checks)

[@racingmotorsfr238]

Great work, is it possible to activate the subtitles please. thank you

[@cck0728]

Excellent video. I have 2 stupid questions: 1) At 26:05, is that a fuel pump in between speed pick up and dial gauge? 2) Is there any aircraft /engine that uses "metric system" instead of "FPS(inches)" system? Thanks for your time.

[@AgentJayZ]

That's an oil scavenge pump from a J79. Almost every country on the planet uses metric and almost every modern engine made is metric. Aviation in general has a tradition of using imperial units because of the major role that was played for so long in developing standards and procedures by the USA, and the UK.

[@rickpowell4048]

Ill go by Covered Wagon, this shows nuts.Imagin Grumpy n The Kid pissin about with a real Jet.!

[@keithstarkweather3284]

Please tell me there’s some kinda certification I can get from watching your videos.. Certainly should be.

[@AgentJayZ]

I'm working on it.

[@jmurphy1973]

I like Cranky Jay and I'da been just as cranky if people wrongly accused me of something serious based off a KZbin video.

[@brucenadams1]

You mentioned packing and unpacking an engine. After you rebuild an engine how do you package it for delivery?

[@AgentJayZ]

Got a video called engine shipping containers, I think.

[@GeofreySanders]

You put it back the way it came... unless it came sat on a mattress!

[@kevin-vt7dw]

You remind me of a smart curly doing the shuffle

[@Bowtie41]

Not cranky,just HONEST!

[@michaelmooney3369]

the US Army taught me to work on gas turbines.

[@sunnydhaliwal4403]

Hey Jay , I want to become a Aircraft maintenance structure engineer technician at okanagan college. I was wondering what your thoughts AME structures tech and if u have any tips. Thanks

[@AgentJayZ]

My tips are in the video, and this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWmtaaWln85jrtE

[@welltell.]

Yup i recognized the iroque engine.. which brings that one burning question to mind. When do you plan on assembling that engine? I am dying to see it run at full throttle!!!

[@Hercules718]

Articulately explained, as always. Thank you.

[@GeofreySanders]

AgentJayZ's secret identity is... AgentJayC!

[@sharg0]

It's ok to be cranky now and then. Especially when it's well motivated... Thanks for all the inspiring videos! Personally I'd love to see more of your inspection process with used parts (I'm working with machining of new parts for gas-turbines)

[@sharg0]

And as one that has been an instructor on measuring, I agree with your evaluation on micrometer vs calipers, really nice to hear someone discussing readout vs accuracy. Mostly I use both though, caliper to see I'm in the right range and not 0.5 to 1 mm off and then micrometer to get the accuracy.

[@dtvtechrp]

How does it work for a person who has an A&P certification in the states but wants to move to Canada and work.

[@AgentJayZ]

Any Aerospace employer would consider you qualified.

[@dtvtechrp]

@@AgentJayZ thanks that's good to know I'm considering this as a serious career move :)

[@dtvtechrp]

Just as a matter of fact I am in school

[@AgentJayZ]

So... do you guys call it lock wire or safety wire?

[@dtvtechrp]

@@AgentJayZ lockwire :)

[@racingmotorsfr238]

is it possible to activate the subtitles...thanks !

[@tonyjoytonyjoy]

Rock n' roll.

[@billcorrigan8456]

Lol agent jay z... well I have been watching your videos and it is clear that you know what your doing.

[@billcorrigan8456]

Do you use the manuals a lot?

[@AgentJayZ]

The overhaul manual is the instruction set of the only correct way to do the task. Even after doing the task many times, the manual is always open and referred to. Is that what you meant by a lot?

[@billcorrigan8456]

Ya i figured you are kind of a master craftsman by now so you wouldn’t need it all by now

[@AgentJayZ]

Well, we are not grubby animals pawing through the pages... we have some original manuals from the 1960s, and they are doing well. One trick is, if you want to take the manual to the shop floor, where oil and tools are being used, it's a good idea to photocopy the relevant pages, and take them out there...

[@antidecepticon]

I would love to inturn, I have enough money to live / work for forr for free for a year too!. That would be the coolest oppertunity!

[@dennisbailey4296]

Was it just the movie of Arrow that used that engine or did it actually go on the plane? I thought that they had tested it once or twice with the engine?

[@AgentJayZ]

The Arrow flew when fitted with the P&W J75s which were very large turbojets. The Orenda Iroquois was even bigger, but an Arrow never flew with them installed. The Iroquois was tested by attaching one to the rear of a B-47 bomber (six J47 engines). It was able to easily power that plane, after having all six of it's engines shut down.

[@dennisbailey4296]

The Iroquois engine I'm referring to.

[@dennisbailey4296]

@@AgentJayZ Wow That's incredible. Us normal people don't get all that great information. It was a sad day when they scrapped all that stuff.

[@Bluenoser613]

Did you intend to show your address that is printed on your card?

[@AgentJayZ]

It's already been out there for years

[@2Axiom]

Nice

[@obsoleteprofessor2034]

After getting my U.S. A&P certificate I went into the Air Force. After going through their helicopter school they gave me a pencil.

[@Arthur-Silva]

Ewan McGregor sent you a flag?

[@AgentJayZ]

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

[@dragancrnogorac3851]

Add on this video started and say; 3 ways to become mafia boss lol. Now I'm not which one I want to become 🤪🤣

[@mkrepps]

For those of you interested in what we do at Penn College, here is a video made by one of our students about the reciprocating engine installation and troubleshooting class. kzbin.info/www/bejne/noSmZHeZd81nqq8

[@pantherplatform]

Jets!

[@forroel1]

Not sponsored by " Mitutoyo" :)

[@drunkdonutboy]

I graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree and they had an engineering position open for an airline and having an A & P license as a "preferred" qualification on top of having a degree and experience or w/e. So I bought the study guides and my God are they so dry and boring...I don't even know how to study for something like this...but I never do when the study guides are all question and answer stuff and memorization or whatever

[@AgentJayZ]

That's what we do: the dry and boring stuff!

[@mkrepps]

I agree that it is hard to study from a book by yourself. That's why we do 70% hands-on during our A&P classes. Here is what I do in one of my electrical classes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGKcZnpjj7d8kMU This class is required to get your A&P through our FAA Part 147 school.

[@beachboardfan9544]

WOO WOO PA!!! 👍

[@rolandtamaccio3285]

,,, of course you can learn in your military service. But try to get a contract, or you might be working on trucks in Thule Greenland or digging foxholes in Iraq .

[@evohori]

😊👍

[@SsiolisP]

Consuming beans is also a way to become a jet... Oh, oh! you meant a turbine engine technician. My apologies!

[@theaussiedrama3422]

Evan McGregor

[@AgentJayZ]

Especially here... spelling counts.

[@rolandtamaccio3285]

,,, ten-four on the mics being more accurate than a caliper, digital or vernier .

[@vaalrus]

What about buying scrapped Russian helicopter turbines and rebuilding them in your back alley, to put in your car?

[@AgentJayZ]

Yeah, not a word of that makes any sense at all to me.

[@vaalrus]

There’s a Russian KZbinr who’s been rebuilding/scratch building power plants for RC aircraft in his garage. Lately, he’s taken to attempting to fiddle with GTD-350 turbines with… videogenic if not terribly functional results… Probably more of an informative How-Not-To.

[@iam_maruf]

Auto Generate English??? 😥

[@racekar80]

Great idea sharing how to move into a career. Too many people think college is the only way to get a good job, like all the people working at Starbucks with liberal arts degrees.

[@VovelPunch]

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