Do you guys all want your airline to go tits up because it's not getting with the times, and putting these resources in better places?
I don't have an engineer pushing me back, but I'm still here to tell the tale. I bet you any amount of money, that the majority of the guys doing pushback around the world, aren't engineers. Any major problems so far?
In one of the ports we visit, one of the guys doing pushback is a pilot himself. Get some of the best info out of him. And in our major ports, if we really want an engineer, they're just a phone call away and they'll be there.
Aircraft aren't going to start dropping out of the sky because the dude on the headset isn't an engineer.
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