Colonel
Colonel,
For you and all the knowledgeable ones, most people with some hand skills can repair an old Holden, but it is a totally different ball game to repair/troubleshoot a modern high tech computer controlled vehicle. Unfortunately our know all managers don’t seem to be aware of this fact, that the more technical an aircraft is the more skilled the workforce have to be and the more training required to maintain these high tech aircraft. As has been stated before, the so called strategy people still believe the manufactures that you don’t need many LAME’s for their maintenance. The factories still can’t get the a/c into service let alone guarantee trouble free maintenance.
It has become difficult to retain AME’s who are the future of our profession, due to poor wages and ‘no training policy’, so one wonders how or who the company thinks will keep them flying.
I suppose they feel they can get them checked in Lax, ready for the morning departure in Sydney.