Welcome To My New Blog!

Welcome! If you have stumbled upon this blog you are likely interested in pursuing a career as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer. Perhaps you are already an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, and are looking to see latest trends and topics relating to our industry.

Whatever the case may be for your journey to this blog, I welcome you, and invite you to take your time and read through the many articles that will provide you with insight and enjoyment for hours to come.

I should however introduce myself. My name is Ryan Gomes, I am an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer M1 category and Director of Maintenance at Tri-City Aero Maintenance Inc. in Breslau, Ontario, Canada. I have been licensed for over 6 years now, and have been in the aircraft industry for over 12! I have worked in general aviation my entire career, and started with Amateur Built (CAR 549) aircraft.

Over the course of my career I have left maintenance to get into teaching, and I was a Professor at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario for 1 year.

Ryan Gomes competing at the 2011 World Skills Competition 

Besides other accolades which you can view here at my LinkedIn profile, ones that I am particularly proud of are my accomplishments with Skills Ontario, Skills Canada, and World Skills. I am the Skills Ontario OTC Gold Medallist for 2010, I am the Skills Canada NTC Gold Medallist for 2010, and I am the 3rd place finalist at the 2011 World Skills Competition in London UK.

My involvement in Skills goes deeper than that as well. I was the Ontario Technical Chair for the Aircraft Maintenance Competition for 7 years, and I also had the pleasure of representing Canada as the World Skills Canadian Expert for the 2015 competition in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This afforded me the opportunity to be able to help design a podium finish training plan for Canada's competitor, which ultimately lead to his Silver Medal.

Having been in aviation for the greater part of my working life so far, I have learned that the lifestyle can be a challenging one. It takes grit to deal with the daily pressures, the harsh work environments, and worst of all the types of personalities you may come across in your travels. These are all obstacles that I wish someone would have told me when I was pursuing Aircraft Maintenance as a career choice, and that is how I am going to approach this blog - a definitive guide to surviving this industry and getting yourself set up to become an "A" player in the highly competitive work force.

I want to treat this blog how I treat everything in my life, with the absolute utmost dedication and perseverance, so that I can bring to you value information to succeed in this field.