You mean you do all that with a 60 ship fleet and no Technical Support Services to back you up, asheng? Hell thats tough, maybe we can help each other out. I'm doing a spot of research at the moment, what improvement in MTBUR have you seen since implementing the Sundstrand RIP programme? Did you negotiate a guaranteed maintenance cost per operating hour and if so what rate did you get? Are you affected by 2002-25-11? How are you coping? Send me a Private Message and maybe we can share our findings, after all the more information we can share, the greater the safety and performance pay-backs we get.
But of course, you aren't doing it all by yourselves are you? Aviation is a multi-skill environment and we all depend on each other....
Its horses for courses; we are all in the same profession, different compartments perhaps, but we all rely on each other. Engineering is underpaid and under-rated. As long as we remain divided amongst ourselves we will stay that way. IF we can achieve public recognition of engineering's proper place in the scheme of things, everyone in engineering will benefit - designers, maintainers, developers or whoever we may be. Thats what the real issue is. At the top of the profession are the people with post graduate degrees and several years of experience designing new things, be they whole aeroplanes and engines, or parts and sub-systems. At the other end of the scale are semi-skilled workers doing lubrication, ground handling and other essential but simpler jobs. The rest of us are somewhere in between, but all of us are in it together - sink or swim.
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