What do ex-military aircraft engineers think of their civvy job?
Hi, I'm sorry if this has been done before.
I am just wondering how working in civvy aircraft engineering compares to RAF TG1 and 2?
Would you recommend it over the RAF?
Can you please dispel some myths, we blue suits hear a lot of horror stories...
1. The civvy aircraft industry is mostly contract work with little job security.
2. Even guys with JAR66 have difficulty in finding jobs.
3. The accountants run airlines not engineers. It's all cut throat penny pinching.
4. Airlines are now looking at maintenance been done by some peasants in Eastern Europe to save a few pennys.
5. Experience in the RAF doesn't mean much in the civvy aircraft industry.
Rather bizarrely, most aircraft techies I know in the raf want to work off-shore in oil and gas rather than plunge into the civvy aircraft engineer world. I find this worrying as I know more about aircraft engineering than anything else.
Thanks.