There is a bit more to picking up a new trade or trades than a few poxy casa basic's!
If Lame's had more sense they would obstruct any system that undermines real trade training that just creates a bunch of pens that undermines the real trades and the campaign for maintaining safety and standards.
If you undermine the quality of your trade and licence a without proper training and experience a fair reward for your knowledge and experience associated with it will also reduce. A catch 22 really.
I am sick of short sighted bone head LAME's happy to play the system which is purposely being worked by companies via puppetering of CASA.
I understand the ALAEA is addressing the farce of ill qualified LAME's picking up trades without real underpinning knowledge or experience. Yes the very issue that plagues Europe and their Kellog's Licence's that undermines real LAME's over there.
Lame's with type licences after two weeks of training is a real concern. That's politics' and it sux but is being addressed. The FAA is realising it EASA is realising it. Hopefully CASA will grow some teeth.
Harmonisation is a joke if it has no standard enforced. It does not help if we make it work by slipping through the back door that's been left ajar and take trades without real qualification purposefully set to entrap you for your own demise.
Australia has the best system in the world which is being dismantled.