Orville
I read on the link to AirMech that engineers shouldn't expect to much support from their collegues behind the wheel, as money seems to be their motivator and not safety.
This has already been shown in the poor attempt by Virgin to introduce a LAMELESS tarmac, and CASA's intervention, suggesting that their pilots pick up their game and do the preflight check more vigilantly. I believe last year they had missed some serious defects and CASA were not impressed.
Obviously the pay check at the end of the day is most important, as was also evident at QantasLink ( Impulse, Jetstar, Jet connect or what ever). Recently a check Captain was demotted for failing two pilots on their routine check, he was advised by the company??? " that it is not his job to fail pilots." So because he was doing his job correctly, giving priority to Safety ahead of carreer, he paid a penalty. Why don't we have more Crew, Ground and Tech. prepared to have or show a little integrity.