Gene,
I would think high school consolers would encourage those inclined to get
the training to be aircraft mechs. Why the shortage?


"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:16:42 -0400, "Real Name"
wrote:

Doug,
Absolutely not, I believe in most jobs, employers should insist that
employees speak English.


It is required, under Federal Law, that mechanics *read* and
*understand* the maintenance manuals, which are written in english.
They are also required to write a legible and comprehensible logbook
entry accurately describing the work performed.

Most larger aircraft flying today are maintained in "Repair Stations"
that get around this language requirement. I know of a lot of people
working on aircraft that can't carry on a decent dialog in
conversational english.... and technical english? No way.

Tie that to the fact that a major shortage of aircraft mechanics is
looming on the horizon... one large enough that Congress has just
commissioned a study to evaluate how big and why. The answers are
obvious, but I guess we need to spend more tax money to codify the
obvious.... G-r-r-r-r-r-r-r....