Who’s behind this nonsense? My name is Erlendur Gudmundsson and I am from Iceland. I never planned to become an Aircraft Technician but as fate would have it, I found myself on a journey of adventure in the Aviation World.
I graduated with an A&P license in 1981, from Spartan School of Aeronautics, (Now referred to as the College of Aeronautics). After graduation I flew home to Iceland to find that there were no jobs available for a Rookie Technician. Again my luck changed and I found myself in Akureyri, working for Norlandair, at the time known as Flugfélag Norðurlands. My 3 years there where the foundation of my 40 year career, aided by the extraordinary tutelage of great persons, such as Mr. Jón Karlsson, Mr. Skarhéðin Magnússon and many others. There I learned the meaning of Professionalism to the extreme.
My journey took me to some great companies such as Cargolux in Luxembourg, Direct Maintenance in the Netherlands, Ocean Airlines in Italy and Air Atlanta Icelandic, to name but a few.
I worked on the small to medium sized aircraft to begin with, such as the Cessna and Piper line up, Twin Otters and Mitshubishi MU2. Later with Cargolux, I got introduced to and fell in love with, the Queen of the skies, the Boeing 747 Classic (-100, -200 and -300) which stayed with me for the next 25 years.
In 2007, I said goodbye to my Queen and joined FAI AG in Nuermberg, Germany. With them, I worked on the Learjets and Challengers along with the Bombardier CRJ.
In 2015 I had enough of Suitcase Life and went home to Iceland. There I joined Keilir Aviation Academy as a fulltime EASA Part 66 instructor and later migrated for a while to Tækniskólinn where I had the same role as with Keilir.
Now as I find myself on the edge of retirement, I take this time to patch together something that may benefit the Technicians of the future. I hope it will be of some value to you and I encourage you to criticize and comment like crazy.
