Simple really, as the ALAE have been stateing for months, EASA are on a mission to dumb down the licence till it is in effect worthless.
They are well on thier way to achieving this task. Those of us who went through 4 years of a recognised apprentiship scheme, then sat the CAA licence, underwent an oral exam with a survayer, and then were given the privilage of holding a licence, are all ageing, and will eventually retire,
Why not just dumb down the system from the bottom, and EASA will eventually reach the goal they want, ie no licence of any value, for European licensed engineers.
It makes me sick really, when you are forced to work with EASA licenced engineers, who have gained thier licence through the new system, and cannot even tell the diffrence between type 2 de-icing fluid and Fluid 4, and these guys are on thier own making potential life or death desisions as to weather to dispatch an aircraft or not..
