engineers
Good Day all
An enginner can self study the modules for a B Licence, gain a type course through an approved training organisation but unless that engineer is fully competent/qualified in the companys eyes he would never be given a company approval/stamp.
In which case he he would not be certyfying anything.
I would agree that the apprenticeships and licence route before JAR/EASA was much more thourough, the old A+C, X, R Licences were sometimes thought as being more difficult than any degrees out there especially with the negative marking.
I still belive though that the engineers nowadays who certify those aircraft flying above us at the moment do it with nothing other than safety of a/c pax and crew in mind at all times.