Interesting Thread,
I left the industry last year I was engineer over twenty years experience with multiple ratings. The lack of respect for such a highly skilled job which requires five times the cognition of our pilot brothers for a quarter of the salary, was another factor. I am still kind of involved as I am a loss adjuster in London, but to quite honest happy to be out.
I hope that one day it will change for the sake of so many good guys still in the industry who produce amazing results against all the odds (i.e poor management, less than worthy pilots, and excessive working hours due to the overall shortage in the first place!).
