Work Experience

Mine is going down the Toilet!

Hi,

Most aviation-related areas won't allow you access on security/age grounds (liability). Unless you try and get a job in management for the week at an airline doing a desk job, they will likely not allow you to work there.

Best regards,
Vulcan.

I did mine last year, one week with London Underground at their Jubilee Line depot at Stratford, East London.  That was arranged as my dad's friend is the fleet manager of the 1996 rolling stock in operation on the Jubilee Line.  It was very interesting actually - it was mainly a desk job and I made a few spreadsheets about rolling stock defects and why trains were taken out of service etc.  I also produced handouts and tables for use during conferences etc.  Throughout the course of the week though, I was invited actually out on to the depot floor to assist in servicing a train where I went in the pits underneith one, checking things like brakes, compressors, motors and bogies - wheel sets not the stuff in your nose!   I also watched them remove a wheel from a carriage and lathe it on a big machine - which is used for removing flats on the steel wheel caused by skidding.  As well as this I visited the line control centre at Canary Wharf and the depot control centre at Stratford and was told how it all worked.  To finish off, I was allowed in the cab of a tube train with the driver for a portion of the line.  A thoroughly interesting week.