Originally Posted by
WHBM
Bear in mind that at Airbus the Technical Author is unlikely to have English as their first language, as well.
Quite true, French is my second language and often it helps when trying to decipher what is required by the AIB manuals.
I'll also add that many of the employees, including I suspect the ones that write the manuals have never worked in aircraft maintenance. A couple of years ago during an Airbus audit I was asked a question, my reply was "we use the SRM"
The next question was "what's an SRM?"