Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Maybe kevbo's not too far off after all. .
No. The fact that labor negotiations are in play is all that really needs be said.
The rest is confirmation bias and political drama.
The fact is that I can inspect any aircraft, regardless of how well maintained at any level, and find discrepancies, and there's a high probability that I could find the means to ground it were I to choose.
The difference between automotive mechanics and aircraft mechanics is that the aircraft mechanic is expected to look beyond the task card at the surrounding area, and be constantly in search of discrepancies and problems. The automotive mechanic seldom looks beyond what's being done. The engine may be cracked through, but if his task is to drain the oil, then that's his mission, and god forbid that he clean the engine while he's there, though federal regulation requires the aircraft mechanic to do it before he starts the work.
That an aircraft mechanic is not required to be an automotive mechanic is an idiotic straw man reach of mindless proportion. The ER doctor is not expected to fix a sewer, and the courtroom attorney is not expected to write nursery rhymes or coach football. Apples to apples, else the example has zero credibility and marks the hack attempting to make the point as a blathering idiot. Someone who suggests that aircraft mechanics should be responsible for repairing motorcycles, for example.
Likewise, the utterly idiotic, brainless, stupid assertion that federal certification in any way lessens a mechanic's ability, skill, or attention to detail, or the bald-faced lie that automotive certification is required at the state or any other level. Again, the products of weak argument, which is the hallmark of ignorance and quite possibly, low intellect.
No surprise when bantied about by those who couldn't make it in their profession and who failed. We see this often by the same poster, though. This self-professed authority, with very little experience who isn't working as a mechanic appears like a dark cloud every time the maintenance profession is discussed, his personal mission in life to rain on the parade, always with lies and the perspective of one who failed in his career, and who expresses little to no understanding of the business, yet again.