Originally Posted by
Airbum
Most likely you where/are at that time a much more experienced A&P then pilot. I have immediate family members who are A&P's. When they started out flying employers where interested in their A&P experience. When they applied for flying positions after gaining thousands of hours heavy jet time nobody cared they had a MX background.
I think you did the best thing for you and left for a flying gig. MX will always be there and try to take advantage of the new demand for pilots.
This is true, I had over 20 years in maintenance at that point, and was a low time time pilot. It's gotten better since then, but I still find it odd that a commercial pilot application with only an A&P listed (I removed my IA from it) would get multiple phone calls asking if I would be interested in getting the IA and working a DOM position. To me this speaks volumes as to the lack of qualified personal in the aircraft maintenance profession.