You spit on the windscreen so that you can clean it.

You know that aircraft become even more unservicable on a Friday afternoon.

You refer to your course notes rather than the APs

You've got a Deputy Dawg hat for the winter.

And there's always someone who hasn't seen a three man lift or played spoons.

For the Naval Aviation Community - You know its meal time because they pipe "hands to flying stations".

Or you check the colourless, almost odourless, liquid on the floor of the aircraft by taste. :ok:

You get an inner glow of satisfaction when the immortal words "you are a disgrace to the uniform !" are directed at you.....invariably by the blunt side of the organisation with regard to one's appearance....as they were many times I am pleased to say.

Nothing better than going into SHQ in your "clean" wet weather jacket, stinking of either fuel or better still de-icing fluid, and watch the shinies start wrinkling their noses up, you get priority treatment once they realise you are the source of the smell!:ok:

Or another the classic memo from OC Supply sent out around Oct/Nov time every year - saying that he has noticed an increase in the consumption of batteries, especially torch batteries. As an engineer you know it is darker longer in winter than it is in summer, obviously the flight line is not equipped with electric office lighting!:ugh:

Or the same scam from MT complaining that the line L/R fuel efficiency has gone down now winter is here, wouldn't have anything to do with the heater being the only source of heat(minimal at that) hence in winter the vehicles run 24hrs a day!:ugh:

When you're favourite weather "Line Sunshine" is actually thick fog

When a RAF plod and dog doing a sweep of a VIP VC10 asks you in all seriousness to open a fin fuel tank access panel 50 plus feet up in the air to see if you're average terrorist has managed to scale all the way up the side of the fin, unscrew a couple of hundred screws then fighting back the waves of fuel gushing out, succesfully plant his bomb in the tank and repanel it all again, all without being seen!

When you've cleared the mysterious panel lighting snag....... by turning up the Dimmer Switch :}

When you're seeing off Aircraft after attending "The Breakfast Club!"

When the last hour of your shift in Cyprus is spent applying large ammounts of french chalk to the ceiling fans as a treat for the other shift!

Signing off the pilot's magnetic compass complaint by moving his metal thermos bottle of coffee.

You know you're an RAF Aircraft Engineer when
 

You're still offended by the fact that the Shineys are going on the higher pay band, despite it being announced 6 months ago.

You can still remember 29 odd years later on that 26WX 6773 was the Wessex nose door anti-icing seal part number and 526MM 0505059 was the Puma equivalent.

Nutloose............
 

I think I love you..............:}

and 45 years later that Zero Reader used an Eccles Jordan mono-stable double triode flip flop valve.
:sad:

s37

72a But Avpin is. :ok:

.....when the frayed bit of the neck of your woolly pully is held together with locking wire.

Anyone answering yes to 76 was an honorary shiney:E

Keep it up gents, we can reach 200 at this stage.

Oh and whoever mentioned leatherman and maglite must be young, in my day it was a GS and a grey rubber torch.:ok:

Have managed to run a deisel car and heat your home for free for years :}

In the middle of winter, you have jumped, fully clothed, into a bath of freezing cold water because your denims have caught fire due to a HTP leak from the Blue Steel.

Have used OM15 to decoke the car instead of Redex

Used an OM15 tin to do a temporary repair on an aircraft for RTB only.

Learnt not to trust the faireys when they tell you the Houchin is disconnected from the jet , only to discover the test set is still connected to the pitot head which proceeds to bend as you tow the houchin away with a land rover

Ah Zero Reader! The scourge of aspiring J/T's and loved by the 'Boardroom' Chiefs. They all had their own pet theories on how a particular part of the circuit worked.

Your memory's better than mine Shack37