Impact drivers (dewalt and the likes)

[Strega]

FYI this is what I was referring to as an "impact driver"

[photofly]

pf.. my beef is when AMEs like to leave out the AM and refer to themselves simply as "engineers" An Engineer and an AME are different.. they are not the same.

Would be like a bus driver calling himself a "High density vehicle pilot" and then just simply referring to themselves as a "pilot"

Do you really have time to get hot under the collar about what people call themselves? I'm going to worry about it only after fixing world hunger and bringing peace to all mankind.

[KISS_MY_TCAS]

Strega, I don't refer to myself as an "engineer", I refer to my profession as being an AME. For those unsure of what that is, I explain it to them. I have no shame in what I do for a living, I made a conscious decision to do it. People like you, that devalue what AMEs do every day lose respect within the small community that is aviation. Yes, I grease wheel bearings, file props, and I also have imported GA aircraft and managed transport category aircraft during c checks through third party MROs. I don't need you, nor does any AME to devalue their career choice over something as trivial as a title. I am licsenced to operate watercraft in a port, which according to Websters dictionary qualifies me as a " pilot". There are plenty of terms to describe you, few if which will not cause my post to get deleted on this forum. You are quite unhappy in your sad personal life in NWO, which makes you an internet tough guy(nothing personal, NWO is a horrible place to live, but you do it either by choice or stuck by marriage, though I doubt that few members of the opposite sex would put up with you unless you hook up at a northern social). People like you suck, I am just pointing it out to the poor victims that offered you advice. Beg for help, while publicly insulting them. There is a special place in society for people like you, and although you also know it, you are still in denial. I can also safely assume the AMEs you have dealt with have no idea you post here under that user name. If they did, they would either stop working with you, or bill you higher I guarantee. There is a guy at our airport just like you, we all know him, and he's been at it for years. His reputation precedes him, so rest assured yours does too. The internet is anonymous, real life isn't.

Photofly, I still have salt with you over a thread years ago where you teamed up with this piece of work. Because of you, I have refused work on every photo plane in my neck of the woods for years. I have dealt with numerous "sky-snappers" over the years, and even gone out of my way at times to help them with free hangarage during storms because their little birds would have launched over a fence otherwise, and caused no burden to our operation. The thanks was never ending bill disputes over minor billing, so we have elected to refuse. A shop rate of $85/hour doesn't justify disputing a $30 charge on an invoice, its simple economics when I swallow that time to research something that is justified. Nobody likes working for free. Simply nickels holding up a dollar, we have no time for petty crap. There are shops on the field wiling to tolerate that, we aren't, but you need to play by their hours just like going to a bank. We used to be helpful, we learned, you solidified it. There are better facets of the industry to look after than roving RVs, 152s, and tight ass operators.

[photofly]

Photofly, I still have salt with you over a thread years ago where you teamed up with this piece of work. Because of you, I have refused work on every photo plane in my neck of the woods for years. I have dealt with numerous "sky-snappers" over the years, and even gone out of my way at times to help them with free hangarage during storms because their little birds would have launched over a fence otherwise, and caused no burden to our operation. The thanks was never ending bill disputes over minor billing, so we have elected to refuse.

I'm sorry about that.

But you should perhaps know I've paid every single AME I've ever dealt with, on time, in full. Without questioning the bill, and with a smile, even if I had to force it onto my face. That includes both the more-competent ones and the less-competent ones. That includes the bill from the AME I later had to pursue about defective work. (Which, to his enduring credit, he paid up for quickly, also with a smile, and without question.) I do however reserve the right to an opinion after the fact about whether the work I had done was good value for money and whether I should have had it done somewhere else or taken a different approach.

Secondly, despite the nickname here, I have nothing whatsoever to do with aerial photography, and I never have had.

Life's too short for a grudge - with anyone - and I wouldn't have the emotional energy to devote to it anyway.

[Strega]

Tcas... read my posts...

I detest so called "pros" that charge money, for substandard, or outright shoddy work, whiles hiding behind some license, while at the same time conveniently forget their actual job title.

I have paid "AME"s very large sums of money over the last 20 years or so, some are good, some are ok, and some are terrible.

Although I have not performed any statistical analysis on each of the groups mentioned above, I might speculate that those that simply refer to themselves as "engineers" fall in the the later classifications.

Good day sir.