Come on guys...you're hurting my feelings now
Blacksheep, If a member of my crew ever insulted an engineer he'd be dragged around the back of the bike sheds for a swift lesson in manners and decorum.
Nutloose, A different spin on "our a/c". Not in terms of ownership but more the kind of feelings you have for, maybe, an errant child or your favourite car. When I know the different foibles for each individual a/c I fly, be it a strange vibration, or the way it handles ,if only slightly differently to another, you begin to develop a strange king of affinity with it. And I'm sure the same can be said for you when the same a/c keeps cropping up with the same old problem! I don't own it, neither do you, but for the few hours a day I get to fly it, and the few hours a day or night you get to take it apart and put it back together again it IS ours.
I like to try and work closely with our engineers when we have a problem, I like to know what you're talking about becasue it helps US get the job done. I can't always understand the repercussions of a problem just by reading the MEL, my best source of information about the a/c is YOU. Granted there are some captains who think they are the "Two winged master race" but I hope that they are a minority. I aint one of them!
Chesty