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Clive; When did you learn to read and write and use such impressive words. When i saw you last you were signing with a cross!!!
Anyway such is progress;I only mention EASA as this is what we have to work with (or around). It always amuses me that the 'Europeans' manage to find the most complicated way to tell the Americans* how to operate and maintain an aircraft that they*designed,built,certified,fitted with their own avionics and engines plus most of the systems. We do have some good people over here but they just get lost in the sea of bureaucracy that seems to have overtaken basic engineering safe practice. Europe is a nest of vipers with bureaucracy and it seems the RAF has been bitten. I was only joking about the cross i think someone else did that for you.Our esteemed ex WO eng at Kenley would have wept if he could see what goes on nowadays. Glad you are still up and about.