Bus 429
The esteem in which you hold us is well documented on this website. You obviously feel the need to reassure yourself of your convictions at every turn: a bit like some of our straight cabin crew who feel the urge to mention the words 'girlfriend' and 'shag' as often as they can; and preferably in the same sentence!
I never said that engineers don't make mistakes, or that they are not serious. What I said was that the power to make catastrophic mistakes has been all but eliminated. Neither am I so ignorant (in spite of what you may think) as to think you are never under pressure; I'm sure that you do have a tight schedule to keep quite often. So what? If maintenance hits a snag, that's the schedule out of the window, no question; safety first.
Quite how you can equate this style of pressure to ours is beyond me, but there again, I am a pilot and as such not mentally equipped to grasp the finer points of your superior thought processes.
topman
Thankyou for the clarification. I wasn't sure but it does surprise me that the RAF, renowned for their quality and training, should have overlooked such an obvious consideration.
As a final thought, and this is targetted specifically at BUS 429; how many engineers do you know who were airline pilots before? (not including re-incarnations!); I know plenty of pilots who were engineers before. What then, does our profession have that yours doesn't? It's not necessarily the money as Blacksheep has dispelled the myth. So, what do you think, bus. Yawwwwn, do tell me zzzzzzzzzzzz....