The most important part of being a techie was to always have an procedure AP in your hand while looking thoughtfully at a broken jet. No one bothered you.
I thought it was to evacuate the crew room before the NCO with the clipboard reached you.
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How can people master airframe & propulsion engineering but not basic written English?
I would hope that the Royal Air Force have fewer Pilots, rather than less Pilots.
With the extra burdens on Pilots in the current service compared to some times gone by, I think the need is for more of a Pilot, not less.
This also applies to Technicians who need to be much more skilled, not just technically than their predecessors were.
IMHO, much more communicative than your above politician speak claptrap.
The basic job of determining what's broken and how to fix it may have become a little de-skilled by the increasing use of diagnostic equipment and swap-out parts, I wouldn't know as I don't do it I just see it being done.
