Originally Posted by
Aluminium Mallard
True... we all got trained... AND THEN we spent hours and hours accumulating experience.
Experience would be difficult to get ground running... e.g. on some 44's when you push the carby heat down with the frictions off the collective comes up... that ones not in the manual! or how about on machines with a light collective a decent gust of wind can bring the collective up too.
How does the machine feel? Who spends hours and hours sitting in them?
Yet how many times early in your career with little to no experience were you alone? Likely alot i reckon. An engineer will learn the same way you did...by sitting in that seat. And a good instructor will be passing on all those sweet little nuances to his trainee if hes any good at his job. Dont worry, engineers wont take your precious job away from you.