Originally Posted by ShyTorque
Totally agree, though but as far as keeping us flying it's far better to have a hangar full of mechanics than engineers. Keep the engineer away from the spanners, in the office by the phone. Then if he gets a difficult question he's covered both ways; he can either phone a friend or go into the hangar and ask a mechanic.
I presume you're going to allow this impractical engineer to do some calculations to give your workhorse parts with acceptable design life? When your workhorse is becoming obselete, i hope you don't mind if that same useless engineer releases more than a fag packet sketch for the replacement design?
BTW, when i want to evaluate a new design I always seek the advise of the technicians who will be building the prototype. For practical advise, and new design evaluation, they are king in my book.
