Women perform a major role in the airline industry not just as pilots and cabin crew but also as maintenance engineers. Metrolife spoke to say about 7 per cent of their ground maintenance staff are women.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Earlier not many women would take up this job. Things have changed in the last 10 years. We now have more women engineers taking on important jobs in the aviation industry. Women bring in a new and innovative wave of thinking,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says the spokesperson of a prominent airline.<\/p>\n
When Tanushree Mandal, aircraft maintenance engineer, Vistara, began her career, pilots Women perform a major role in the airline industry not just as pilots and cabin crew but also as maintenance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft-maintenance-engineers","category-motivational-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand cabin crew were the most common job proles for women.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The role of an aircra maintenance engineer, though extremely rare for a woman, intrigued me. The intricacies of how an aircra functions and the avionics behind the machine got me excited,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tanushree told Metrolife.
\nWith over a decade in the profession, Tanushree has worked on the Airbus 320, Boeing 737, Cessna 152, and the Cessna 172. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Each machine is unique with respect to its communication, navigation, and display,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she explains.
\nShe gained her technical knowledge at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in Bengaluru. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And there is specialised training for every aircraft,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she observes.
\nWhen she started working as a maintenance engineer, many told her it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s job. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The key is to think you are qualified for the job and can perform as well or better than anyone else,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Tanushree.
\nPalak Arora, avionics engineer, IndiGo, was first exposed to the idea of aircraft maintenance engineering at a career fair. She took up a course in aircraft maintenance engineering in the avionics stream, and qualified for the job over five years.
\nThe challenge is often with the physical structure of planes. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are times when we have to x errors at places hard to reach. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like working on a human brain, one may know the location of a tumor, but is afraid about harming the other nerves in the pathway,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says.
\nThe job calls for a high level of concentration and leaves no room for mistakes, she says.Kumari Sujeeta, duty engineer, AirAsia India, hails from a tiny hamlet in Bihar. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I realised becoming a pilot was not easy for a middle class girl. I had no idea about engineering in the aviation industry. Aer Class 12, I came to know about an aircraft maintenance engineering course and the most important thing was that it was not very expensive. So it was like a dream come true,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sujeeta told Metrolife.
\n27\/06\/20 Nina C George\/Deccan Herald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"