L.A.E.- Who are we kidding?
We are not engineers! Engineers go to University for years to obtain a degree. They come out to the big , bad world and get a job that pays more, for less effort than we put in.
The truth is "we are not engineers".
We are making a big deal of our job, fixing a/c is not hard.
In the states guys come out of Pizza Hut, get an A&P and sign off the complete a/c. Some of these a/c put in more hrs/cycles than a/c this side of the pond and I'm afraid they are not falling from the sky!
Don't get me wrong, I love my job. I have full avionics cover on 73/75/76/320/330 which I am bloody proud of, it was a hard slog and yes standards are dropping but only because they were too high in the first place. JAR is addressing this situation and yes we will become technicians but the truth is we were never engineers in the first place.