It have been pretty impressive and draining weeks since I started my internship at the KLM. It's hard to imagine that it has already been eight weeks, and now I have two weeks left until I go to college again. Now the end is coming, I see that our ability to work almost completely independent at the ramp is making progress. In the beginning we just did what the supervisor told us, now all of the trainees know how to work following the procedures.
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Since last week the trainees at the KLM get an activity every Wednesday to learn more about what other departments do within the aircraft handling process. I went to the push back department of the KLM which tows aircraft to parking and pushes them back from the gate to the taxiway. I arrived there at 6 am in the morning to conduct with two colleagues of that department.
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Until last week I wasn't allowed to use all the equipment at the KLM because I wasn't trained to use it. Because of this, the trainees always had to be accompanied by more experienced employees. Last week I've had 2 training courses, one for using the FMC Rampsnake, and one for connecting the GPU and placing the wheel chocks.
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I've been working at the KLM for over a week now, and it's been good. The last couple of days I was linked to more experienced employees, who looked after me while I was working. I could also ask questions to them, because I can't afford to make any mistakes: Safety first. At seven o'clock my working day begins, waiting in the canteen until they declare the names of the next team.
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