[thorn bird]

The irony P2 is of course, even if you complete the convoluted, extremely expensive process and achieve a piece of paper from CAsA that says you are an engineer, the piece of paper is fairly useless as your qualification is not recognised in the real world. Those irascible old grey beards who actually knew how to fix things are a dying breed, once they are gone, what hope for the young'uns deluded enough to try and navigate their way through the CAsA inspired trash will ever gain the knowledge that could have been passed to them from their experience.
When it is cheaper to ferry a GA aircraft back to the USA to complete "heavy" maintenance, speaks volumes for the state the MRO industry has reached. I would love to know just how much CAsA's ineptitude, ignorance, and arrogance adds to the cost of changing a spark plug.