Chickens coming home to roost or what? My bestest mate tim-ing posted this thread 6 months ago and the reaction was muted. The cut-off date approaches, somebody reads the post, and Bingo. The cut off date is also the date that RMA holders will become online as the new age "engineers" in the front line of the Best Avoided airline as their day to day maintenance will be carried out by regraded personnel.
Engineers, even LWTR types, are running around trying to fill in their PER books to either get a licence or keep their grandfather rights under JAR 66.
I use the term engineers with gay abandon don't I, I'm in full knowledge that the real description of these guy's is at best technician and at worst, a fraudulent holder of a worthless qualification that has been devalued by the number of people who have obtained it by deception.
Why do I use this term engineers so freely? Well when the next smokey hole in the ground that due to aircraft engineering failiure occurs, the newspaper won't say an RMA guy screwed up will it. It will say an engineer screwed up and then who is being painted with the same brush. We wait and see don't we? I hope it never happens but I've been in this business long enough to know if it can happen eventually it will.