Firebird2XC
Well-Known Member
A request for a totally new kind of concession just hit the email inboxes of Eagle pilots:
They want to know how many of us have FAA maintenance certificates so we can do 'minor maintenance inspections' at out stations.
This is laughable, but also insulting. To pilots it's an obvious attempt to force us to do more and/or avoid writing things up, but also double down by slighting our maintainers and potentially forcing them out of jobs.
OH HELL NO.
First off, I turned wrenches for years. You don't want freshly minted amateurs working alone on top of pilot duties. This is a recipe for disaster.
Second, I find this horribly insulting to our maintainers. I turned wrenches for the better part of a decade, and know it to be a discipline in its own right. Flight crews are free to do what we do well because of the tireless, dedicated maintainers who keep our jets flying. This is potentially a hedge that denigrates their contributions and maybe costs them jobs.
Eagle pilots refuse to be used as a cheap workaround to paying quality maintainers, and our maintenance specialists are truly top shelf and deserve far more respect than this.
Totally unacceptable, across the board.
ANOTHER EPIC FAIL BY EAGLE MANAGEMENT.
They want to know how many of us have FAA maintenance certificates so we can do 'minor maintenance inspections' at out stations.
This is laughable, but also insulting. To pilots it's an obvious attempt to force us to do more and/or avoid writing things up, but also double down by slighting our maintainers and potentially forcing them out of jobs.
OH HELL NO.
First off, I turned wrenches for years. You don't want freshly minted amateurs working alone on top of pilot duties. This is a recipe for disaster.
Second, I find this horribly insulting to our maintainers. I turned wrenches for the better part of a decade, and know it to be a discipline in its own right. Flight crews are free to do what we do well because of the tireless, dedicated maintainers who keep our jets flying. This is potentially a hedge that denigrates their contributions and maybe costs them jobs.
Eagle pilots refuse to be used as a cheap workaround to paying quality maintainers, and our maintenance specialists are truly top shelf and deserve far more respect than this.
Totally unacceptable, across the board.
ANOTHER EPIC FAIL BY EAGLE MANAGEMENT.
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Er... What? 
