If your having trouble understanding that can I add we have many captains with gold bars in our company but not so many commanders.
No I understand perfectly what the two words mean, it's just that I personally have moved beyond needing to use the terms to describe myself.
Same with wearing a uniform and being all decked out with gold bars and wings and such, I do not need all that to do the job expected of me when I'm " In Command " of a flying device.
But thats just me.
Here is my slant on this flying airplanes thing.
Several years ago we lost an engine on take off in Jeddah, we ended up having to make two trips back to Jeddah to change the engine. It was seven months before we finally finished with all the bureaucratic B.S. and the physical torture of working outside in temperatures over 50 degrees C. before we finally finished and were able to continue the ferry flight to the USA.
It is my personal feelings that comparing the two different jobs, flying versus fixing are quite different and my job satisfaction was far more satisfying with regard to fixing versus flying.
A well trained monkey can fly an airplane but can a monkey fix one?
Last edited by Chuck Ellsworth; 26th December 2007 at 20:59.