I love my airport operations job!

N918KT

N918KT

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It's been over a year since I started working at Philadelphia International Airport in airport operations and I just wanted to say that I love my job! It's always exciting working at a major international airport and I enjoy it every minute of it!
 
Congrats. Hadn't heard that you went to PHL. No two days are every the same in airport ops.
 
This is a declarative statement and not an interrogative.

Who are you and what have you done with the Kevin who usually posts on PoA?
 
Mason said:
Do something you love and you will never work a day in your life.
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I was told that as well. I used to race cars for a hobby. When it became a living, then it was work.

I still love flying, but now it is a living and I look forward to days off.

I just hope when I finally achieve my dream job of being a Walmart greeter that it doesn't become work....
 
So, what do you do in the course of a regular day at work ?
 
weilke said:
So, what do you do in the course of a regular day at work ?
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"I already told you: I deal with the ******** customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"

Nauga,
and that movie about doing what you love
 
nauga said:
"I already told you: I deal with the ******** customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
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I believe you have my stapler.
 
weilke said:
So, what do you do in the course of a regular day at work ?
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My main job is to conduct airport safety self-inspections to make sure it's in compliance with FAR Part 139 which includes inspecting runways, taxiways, ramps, lights, signage and safety areas. Other times I would get a call to escort aircraft under tow (or under its own power) from the terminals to the remote parking apron and vice versa. About half of the shift on certain days I would man a secured vehicle gate that leads from the landside right on to the airfield. I would also patrol the airfield to make sure airline employees and tenants are following airport rules and regulations and could give out violations (fines) if they break the rules. If I were assigned to the midnight shift (I'm not anymore for now) when the sun starts to rise early in the morning, I would drive around the perimeter of the airfield and note down wildlife around the airport like birds and could disperse them if necessary. There is more to what I do but these are the basic things at the minimum I do at the airport. We are assigned a callsign based on which assignment we do during the shift and everyday each airport operations officer would rotate to each different callsign so they are doing a different assignment everyday.
 
When I was deployed to Kirkuk Iraq as chief controller, they made me carry a radio all the time, for what reason I'll never know. They told me to pick a call sign.

<---- Sea Bass
 
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