Blacksheep I appologise if I offended you personally but it was not my intention as my feeling is not with any individual but trhe attitude of certain individuals.
My intension was never to imply that as engineers the aviation world begins and ends at the line or hangar enviroment as this is cleary not the case.It is a large industry utilising a vast variety of departments and expertise and brings together many professionals.
My point was without doubt aimed fairly at the condescending element that I feel Genghis and persons such as him fit into. I find his remarks to be of a nature to suggest that us mere mortals are obviously unfit to work in the same industry as the elevated beings such as himself feel they belong to.
To suggest that I have an axe to grind I feel rather insulting, Personally I wouldn't want to grind it but bury it into something soft.
Tommorow I will go back on shift with my other professional engineers to keep the public flying safely surrounded by yet further professionals who fly the complex machinery that keeps us all employed.I will be able to do this in the knowledge that if required there is a vast machine behind me willing to advise me should I require it on a vast range of technical subjects as is my whim and without these people I couldn't perform my tasks as the public/authorities/company/crew require.Of this we are all grateful for the contributions made and given freely.
Hopefully I wont come accross the pontificating likes of Genghis the so-called Engineer whose experiance relys on him doing some maintenance on his puddlejumper and sometimes in the rain but does have letters after his name!