Unions For Aircraft Engineers.

[Krystal n chips]

Originally Posted by stevef

LWTR: Licence Without Type Rating. A holder has satisfied the requirements for the issue of an aircraft maintenance engineer's licence but hasn't a specific type rating. The basic licence wasn't given away in a cornflake packet as you know; it was tougher than any type exam I've sat because the questions could come from anywhere in CAIPs.
When I held a new BCAR LWTR in 1986 it was common practice for CRS approvals to be issued to competent non-type-rated licenced engineers by the QC department.

"@krystal: what are you saying, that you are so good you don't need a realty check every now and then or are you an experienced mechanic who believes he should have a licence for free but isn't prepared to work for it?"

I've included the quote above because , as steve f correctly states, gaining the initial LWTR was far from simply taking the written exam, turning up to answer a few questions, then going home and waiting for the postman to deliver a package. I am at a loss therefore as to how, and why, you have the impression I didn't have to work for it.

If it helps. not unexpectedly with the surveyor concerned who had a long standing reputation and open dislike of ex RAF / charter airline engineers, I failed at my first attempt based on two, small, very small, paragraphs in the electrical section of CAIP's. Frankly, they weren't what you would call prominent or pertinent to A & C engineers. Six months later, different surveyor ....started off very well, then he came to his pet subject.....aerodynamics . Deeper and deeper he went but I do have a vague idea about such so was able to answer satisfactorily .......I passed. Turned out he came top of his year at Loughborough in ?..aerodynamics. Nice bloke actually. Knew how to ask questions without intimidation .

The OP for this thread raised the issue of why engineers have never, and as has been explained, never will be united as an entity. Hence the controversy that arose in the minds of some between the holders of a T/R Licence and those of us who gained the LTWR and company CRS thereafter.