Hi Curlytips,
Many thanks for your prompt and informative reply. I would like to have a good old moan at length at the self protective reaction of the CAMOs but armed with your help I am dashing off to ask 'my' engineer if he really can apply for the ARC.
He approved my work procedure, supervised work in progress, and inspected the completed work and issued a release to service for some structural work I carried out already.so unless the maintenance mafia get us we should be ok.
Regards,ATCENG