SC,
I wholeheartedly agree with you, there is NEVER any excuse to get a job undersigned. The point I was trying to make was that the chap involved in the spinner incident WAS NOT Lyneham based. So there is this guy who blithely undertakes an unfamiliar task on a relatively unfamiliar aircraft (I assume he attended a Q Course at Lyneham before his det) and asks a junior to undersign. Was this philosophy taught him at his PARENT Unit?
As he was not Lyneham based, how was he in a position to state that the process of undersigning was common practice there?
To the best of my knowledge, the process of undersigning IS NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN practised at Lyneham but his comments were the catalyst for the changes that have been implemented there.
I have spent some time at Lyneham in my career and know the calibre of their technicians is of the highest order and I stand by my statement that “they are professional technicians who only want, at the end of the day, to do a good job”
Apologies if my earlier post was somewhat vague in this area.
Obe One