iscoverThis story about the engineering operations at Qantas first appeared in the August 2019 edition of Australian Aviation.
A few years ago, a Qantas engineer was called to one of the airline’s Airbus A380s in Sydney. A defect had been discovered in an emergency slide that needed to be addressed before the aircraft could be cleared for departure.
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Stewart Corfield
says:I was interestEd in the engineering training videos. Having been a trainer in the TAFE area forover 30 years, I saw the advent of a lot of video training. I even made up some myself. One problem I noticed with these videos, which is common on a lot of training videos, is that the narrator is obviously reading from a script and consequently is going too fast for the serviceman to follow on the part. By continually having to find the pause button on the tablet and then going back to find the black or white lines then remembering what had to be done with them caused problems particularly with older operators. We had this problem in teaching how to use lathes, millers etc. Our solution was to either talk slower or pause for about 10 seconds to allow the relevant reference points to be found. However it is the way of the future.
Greg Stevenson
says:I was trained and worked for forty-two and a half years at Qantas; in Qantas Engineering. I started in 1965 and retired in 2008 in the position of Engineering Maintenance Coordinator. My entire working life at Qantas nearly equals half of its 100-year life and I’m proud of being an employee and still to this very day defend Qantas and speak to everyone how much I enjoyed my years working for Qantas.