Well done Genghis to you and your colleague. I also have a gripe. After 32 years in aircraft Maintenance holding Multiple Type Licences with a number of different Authorities, having Management Qualifications and for the last 10 years being repsonsible for over 200 staff worldwide maintaining over 1 billion pounds worth of aircraft and being responsible for a budget in excess of 15 million pounds, I though that when the RAeS wrote to me as a MRAes and IEng asking me if I wanted to be considered for an upgrade to FRAeS, I would duly apply. After due deliberation, they advised me that I did not have enough experience or responsibility and that my application would not be processed any further. To rub salt in the wound, they wrote to me again a year later and asked the same question. I got the same response on the second application. I am obviously not the sort of person they want to regrade and I fully understand that they send such letters to all members, but if they are not going to accept oiks like me for regrade please don't send me the letter in the first place.
Makes you feel really valued that does. I will not be renewing my membership of the RAeS.
It also makes you realise why a large number of Aircraft Maintenance Engineers have chosen not to becone involved with the RAeS.
Feel better now and am getting off soap box
Temps.