Well spoken QF94, and from a old Aviator, the type of Ginger you were/are were the very people who sent us off confident of the equipment you gave us, sadly for the pilots of the future they will not have the same confidence, not thru any fault of the Ginger that signs you out, but because of the fools that don't recognise that a aircraft that is fully maintained in Australia seamlessly, is generally a aircraft that is fairly good nick. Australia's record of safety is no coincidence, it is because of the extremely high engineering standards and flight crew training, but these fools are prepared to risk all this for the dollar, and we all know its not a case of if, but when, the first aircraft shaped hole emerges. We all know already it will not be the fault of management, that they will move heaven and earth to pin it on the probably deceased flight crew or the hapless LAME that signed it out. But try telling the public that, convinced that the evil unions are destroying the company, and Joyce is a manna from heaven, and because of their hatred and loathing of the present govt/unions, they will not be convinced until the inevitable happens. Meanwhile the pilots just pray they have engineers like QF94, who despite the crap he and his colleagues have to endure, they do what they do best, send out a aircraft that is as serviceable as it can be, even if they are not sure if the parts are authentic, or serviced as they should be. In my time that was never a question.