THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MILITARY MAINTENANCE CREW & CIVIL MAINTENANCE CREW

I get the idea to write this post as I get the opinion for career jobs when I came to LIMA'17. So, I decided to write a post about the difference between military maintenance crew & civil maintenance crew in this field.

The Common About Both Sides

1. They have same academic background.
2. Their job scope are same as they are repairing the aircraft.

The Difference Between Both Sides

1. Their training requirement are totally different. For the civil one, we just to pass all the paper exam, gain all the working schedules, then pass the interview from NAA. But for the military, they just need to go to course to get training from aircraft manufacturer for the specific types of aircraft.
2. The salary difference also very big. It is because as the civil one, we gain our salary by consider type-rating we have, the position of job in company and also overtime. But for the military, they pay you by consider your military rank.
3. The job scope are slightly different between both sides. We can only repair the aircraft based on the type-rating we got and they need to fix any types of military aircraft. We can understand that their jobs are quite heavy.
4. The status of aircraft maintenance engineers are very big difference in both sides. For the example, we as the technicians, we get orders from them. But for the military side, technicians get the jobs done by themselves and the engineers just get report from them. From here, we know that the jobs of engineer in military are quite easy compare to civil side.
5. The experience you will gain also different in each side. If you go to military, you can get a lot of experience as you need to face any difficulty in military. After you get retired from military and go to civil sides, you should be can easily to get jobs.

That all from me for post. I want to thank all the military personnel who gave the information about these when I met them in LIMA"17.