Hello again,
One problem is that the flow of GA engineers is drying up because the pay and conditions are often miserable and not worth the effort of going thru all the exams and training.The JAA exams aren't making it any easier.Mechs prefer to work for the airlines because the pay's a lot better, conditions are cleaner and you don't have to argue with the owner and you get training courses from time to time! In fact, many mechs are leaving aviation to work in other trades and I know a few that have become pilots.It's better to be clean and indoors up the front than lying under a Cessna, not to mention the much higher level of respect accorded pilots.GA has to improve T and Cs to retain the existing people, not to mind tomorrow's generation.
regards
TDD