Hi Tallbloke
I would not bother. As a techie you get filthy, you are looked down upon by other devisions of airlines and any way that they can get to you they will. Aerospace engineering is so drastically underfunded and under resourced from 3rd party maintenance organisations through to airlines. Aircraft maintenance is not viewed by the bean counters 'core business', so they will try to get it done on the cheap. The bean counters have the view 'Why take our planes to a main dealer when we can take them to the aviation equivalent of Kwikfit' We work the longest hours in the aviation business, and for the responsibility we undertake, I feel we are drastically underpaid. Don't do it! If I had my time aagain, I would not have gone into this game.