Genghis my dear fellow,
First may I let it be known that I have absolutely NO AXE TO GRIND but I find you attitude both condescending and for a professional engineer of your mighty status I am surprised by your manner.
Looking at your posts you are obviously a one man aviation expert,designing,maintaining and flying aircraft and sometimes even in the rain.
When you decide to come back down to mother earth and join the rest of us mortals Im sure we'll all be grateful as I for one would love to give you a guided tour of engineering today as I and many of my collegues see it EVERY DAY.
I only work for a small airline operating over 60+ aircraft and turning round these aircraft about 140 times a day at our base alone (that includes problem solving and a sympathetic shoulder for the crews to rely on) and at night we have the luxury of only having 28 aircraft to look after.
This is done in all weathers every day by hard working engineers not all licenced but dedicated all the same. A person of your qualities would obviously be a major advantage to our operation and I cant understand why your not here?
Give me a call or come on down and we'll show you what aviation can be like in a high pressure/stress enviroment with an approximate timescale of 25 mins during the day and 6 hours at night and you can tell me how good letters are after youyr name in this situation.
What the industry requires are more engineers who are ready to get there hands dirty and do it again and again to keep the public flying safely with the knoledge that any decision they make is correct and safe.
What the engineers require is a little bit of recognition and a salary/conditions that reflects the vital job they are doing.Sadly in the case of most unlicenced engineers these are missing on all counts as eng's are seen as a necessary evil by the pen pushers.
Let me know!