I totally agree with enuf!
Although i am only flying turbo-props, sometimes i think just to ground the ship and cancel the flight.
Of course, if they can, they (the engineers) "HIL" it (pref. for a long time), but how far can we and they go??
My company is using an extern JAR-145 company for our maintenance. Right now this is in spain and sometimes you get scaired how thoose people are trying to pull your leg.
I do a lot of training and, as of lately, esp. upgrades. You can imagine how they can get pushed by their company and/or a foolish engineer (who does not know where he is talking about, or simply is to lazy...)
I feel it my responsibility to warn my future capt. coll. And i do, but:
It should not be this way!
But, as always (with management) it needs a incident (or accident) to trigger something:
welcome in aviation!