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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Dahlonega , Georgia
Posts: 15,187
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I retired from a Lockheed Martin plant that built F22's/F35's/C130's and we preached/taught FOD awareness ALL the time . You have to have very robust processes and EVERY worker in the plant has to be on board with FOD awareness . But you can have the best processes and the best staff of assemblers it only takes a few that don't give a crap to mess everything up .
Relying on inspectors to " catch everything " is a flawed process because nothing is 100 % when it comes to humans . We used to walk the flight line with teams of folks , seems simple enough look for anything that shouldn't be on the FL and pick it up . Things get missed . Our workers/assemblers/inspectors caught things ALL the time and still items were missed and caught by DCMA . When DCMA finds something the $hit hits the fan !!!
Everyone has to realize that when it comes to building an aircraft lives are at stake . But in a society that doesn't seem to value human life or at least a portion of society it is hard to stress the importance of a pilot/flight crew and their families . I'm glad I no longer have to deal with it .
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