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AMTSociety Mx Logs Update Corporate Sponsors Quality on Display ® N F R Having quality tools that are both standard and specific in use were provided as prizes to the competitors of the 2013 AMTSociety Maintenance Skills Competition (AMTS MSC). These same tools were also used by the professionals during the many events that make up the AMTS MSC. The professionals I am speaking of are today's aircraft maintenance technicians (AMT) and aircraft maintenance engineers (AME). AMTSociety's 6th Annual Maintenance Skills Competition (AMTS MSC) was held during the AviationPros LIVE in Las Vegas, NV. The AMTS MSC is where each team of five aircraft maintenance technicians competes in events that highlight just some of the many responsibilities that today's AMTs carry in order to provide safe, airworthy aircraft worldwide. There are five categories for teams to compete in: Military Category, Commercial Aviation Category, General Aviation Category, School Category and MRO/OEM Category. There are first, second, and third place plaques and prizes for each category. Many different tool companies donate tools to these teams as thanks for competing against the best of the best. The events range from basic safety wiring to turbine engine troubleshooting to electrical/avionic troubleshooting. Snap-on provides all the tools that the AMTs require to complete each event requiring tools. Although the competition is fierce the spirit of the competition is professional and friendly. This is because every AMT/AME competing belongs to a brotherhood of professionals with a common thread of looking out for each other due to the fact that we all are entrusted with the lives of the people who fly on the machines we maintain … worldwide. This fact is evident in that the AMTS MSC has teams of AMTs that come from China, Australia, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The 23 teams that competed in the 2013 AMTS MSC came to represent their respective companies and organizations as well as our craft and profession. The following teams stood tall for the AMT craft and profession: FedEx Team LAX, FedEx Team MEM, FedEx Team INDY, UPS, Alaska Airlines, Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, West Jet Airlines, Boeing, TIMCO, Lode Technology, Constant Aviation, United States Coast Guard, Redstone College, West LA College, Spartan College of Aerospace & Technology, Aviation Institute of Maintenance Teams from Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Chesapeake, Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Indianapolis, and Salt Lake Community College. All of these teams fielded professionals of the highest caliber. There are no winners or losers in the AMTS MSC but there are bragging rights. And this year the winning teams are as follows: Commercial Aviation Category: 1st Place: FedEx Team LAX 2nd Place: FedEx Team INDY 3rd Place: UPS MRO/OEM Category: 1st Place: Team Boeing 2nd Place: TIMCO 3rd Place: Lode Technology School Category: 1st Place: Team Redstone College 2nd Place: Spartan College of FedEx Team LAX won first place in the Commercial Aviation Category. www.AMTSociety.org • www.AviationPros.com • Aircraft Maintenance Technology April 2013 19