Mr Norman: at least we'll be able to check your background and verify that, yes, you actually
are a trained and time-served aircraft technician.
Get your B2: bearing in mind that you may have to wait a year or two before getting a type course and certifying rights.
Looking at your address: have you worked on the big stuff too? Even better!
The hardest part is the culture-shock of becoming a civvie again.
The best advice I can give is to take an active interest in what the other aero trades do and start looking outside of the demarkation lines the RAF draws up. The job of the G.E. on the Tristars etc isn't too dissimiliar to what the licenced engineer does on the line.
What amazed me is how little I knew about the role of the licenced engineer. It was as if the service didn't want me to know, so I assumed I wasn't capable. I get out here and find out there's bloody loads of us!
If you've also got time to do the degree, then fill your boots, that's another angle covered.
Good luck.
