Good day everyone, I hope you all are doing good. As I also have told you all about my degree program in my introductory post which you can find here.
I was very confused about my degree program which was Aviation management as in Pakistan if you want a job in an aviation field you must have a big source of some VIP. And I don't have that and since the day one I joined this field I had many thoughts and sleepless nights only thinking about should I continue or not and now even after 3.5 years in the university I am still thinking that if it was my good step to came in this field? I think right now after getting this internship I have started to gain some confidence in myself.
So let me start with my first day at my internship.
It was time for me to report to the Pakistan Civil Aviation Headquarters, and when I arrived, I learned that I was to report to the Airside Management Office, which is housed in the Airport's building.
The Airport's Airside (runway, taxiway, aprons, terminal, and parking place) manager took a group of us to the conference room, and then we went to the pre-flight department, where the folks sitting there were actually air traffic controllers who gave us a lecture on how things work there. We all had a good and educational discussion, and we learned how an airline must fill out a pre-flight form and submit it to the Civil Aviation Department, which then validates the flight schedule and provides the data that an airline requires, including a meteorological report detailing the weather.
When I arrived, the staff was extremely friendly, and I learned a valuable lesson: people in Pakistan believe that if they get a government job, their lives will be perfect; they will not have to work at all, and all they have to do is sit in a revolving chair while the air conditioner stands on their head. But this is not true; even though the building is cool because of the air conditioners, the people who work there have a lot of work to do. I've seen the Airside manager, and even though I don't like how he talks because he's always screaming, I've seen him that he doesn't even have time to take a deep breath; he has three different offices, but the time he gives each of them is less than 30 minutes per day.
