Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Actually the first on your list should have been Engineers, because without them your pilot is a pedestrian in naff sunglasses and your ATC will be growing tomato's in their greenhouse.
Just saying.....
Yep, correct and agree 100%. I meant no disrespect to the sooties, riggers, fairys, heavies etc. They gave me serviceable aircraft for 27 years, and kept great humour as I spent much of that time trying to break them
. That said, on the last 4 squadrons on which I served,
all of the engineers were civilian contractors. There was an OCEng on the station, but he had no real involvement in the engineering of our aircraft - he was more of a contract manager.