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Old 5th Jun 2017, 21:50
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portsharbourflyer
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Homsap,

I will agree with you to an extent MRAES and CEng mean very little; there are two year graduate training schemes in some companies that allow someone to gain charter-ship by getting them to jump through the necessary hoops to tick off the boxes for charter-ship; without necessarily gaining competence in any one technical specialisation.

In Aerospace certainly in my field no one puts that much emphasis on charter-ship; I have never needed it, there are other industries where it is regarded and required but certainly not in Aerospace.

Check, Design and CVE approvals under Part 21 are the important thing and none of those require CEng or MRAES. I normally find that the competence of a person is inversely proportional to the letters displayed in the email signatures. The best Engineers I know even if they have CEng and PHd will tend to keep it quiet. Those with the three line email signatures with every letter they can muster tend to be the less competent (to put it politely).
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