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scorpia54:
Hi All,

I am a student pilot in Australia, I actually flew my first solo yesterday!! I am 16 years old and at school we do work experience for a week. I would like to do something with flying, but other than paperwork at my flying school not much i can do out there cause i am not qualified to instruct etc. I hold an ASIC (security card), aswell as Radiotelephony Operators license and Student pilots license and medical.

Just wondering whether it would be possible to do a week of work experience in the tower at my local aerodrome? Is it at all possible? I have security clearancess etc.

Also any other suggestions on work experience for a week in the aviation field??

Thanks and regards
Jake (PIC 0.2!!) :-D

captray:
Hey Jake,
Congrats on your solo! I am not sure of the rules in your country, in the US the best bet would be working at an FBO. Pumping gas, cleaning out offices even cleaning toilets (if that's what it takes). That way you are at the airport and can interact with pilots.   Why stop at a week? Is that just a school holiday? I'm sure others here will have more ideas.

Ray

scorpia54:
Thx, was an uneventful solo which was good, made a nice lading as well could not have gone better! would love to also do it in school hols but i fly as much as i can then! thanks for the ideas, might be a few other options because i already hold the security clearances.

cessna157:
I put myself through high school, college, and many years beyond working part time at an FBO.  Had a lot of great experiences. 

Got an employee discount on the airplane rental
Got to see/fuel/move some very cool jets/helicopters
Got a few rides in some of the mentioned planes
Even got a 6 month internship flying a CitationJet

sykocus:
If you were in the US I would say your best bet is try and make friends with the controllers and manager of a tower near you. The licenses you list wouldn't really help out. I haven't heard of what you are trying to do happening, but if you made a good enough impression you might be able to swing something like that at a relatively small facility, off the books of course.

As I understand it Air Services Australia runs everything down there. Since they are a private company things are probably handled differently.

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