The thing that really annoys aprentices the most is the fact that after you spend 4 years on crap wages CASA still won't recognise any of the exams that you've passed at the 75% pass that were supposedly "aligned" with the CASA syllabus. You then have to go and sit the CASA exams at $100 a go,pass or fail, 6 of for basic airframe ticket.
As for changing the sytem in 30 years they've been saying that for the last 20.
Of the 24 that started that day 6 of us finished the apprentiship 2 of those are out of the trade within 2 years of completion and of the 4 left 2 are LAME's after 8 years in the trade.
As for the tool allowance you obviously havn't ventured near a snap-on van of late have you.
Anybody that says that it's a 4 year "apprenticeship" has no idea what the current situation is.
