Let's see who's the single most valuable asset to the Helicopter company.

I'll make a random list and you guys rank them in order of who you feel is most important based on value to the company.

1.Line pilot--All think they are most Important, but everyone knows they are found a dime a dozen in the gutters of NO

2. A&P Mech

3. CEO

4. I.T.--Heros in their own minds.  Think they run the co.  Secretly hated by everyone in the company.

5. Mx Training instructor

6. Janitor

7. Parts person

8. Ops training instructor

9. Dispatch

10. Comm Center

11 average Jr. Avionics tech/installer

12 Sr.20+ year Avionics Guru.  That guy everyone looks to when the $#!+ has been broke forever and they are at their wits end and have to call him for a bail out.  He's been to every school.  Has every book known to man on aircraft systems since 1950 jammed up in his locker with the spider webs that he never needs to read because it's all been processed and locked away in that massive brain of his.  He knows exactly where to find obscure parts in his scroung of secret hidden bits.  Keeps a back up file of every weird job fix he was ever called out to correct over his entire career just as an archive for future reference.  Never needs to follow the trouble tree in the Mx manual because his own path of troubleshooting comes so natural to him like a river to the sea, and it's usually 10x quicker to the root fault of the problem any way.  Has often come behind others who spent weeks troubleshooting a problem only to fix it in 5 minutes.....countless times.  Is the hero of every pilot with an autopilot issue and every mech that needs to use a happy little switch box that he can whip up in 10 seconds that makes the mechs job of adjusting rotor brake puck switches 100x quicker.  Is the heroic crusader against the evil I.T. department who is always trying to make his life miserable by screwing with his work laptop and blocking him from network access but is not afraid to tell them in angry 2 page long emails routinely how they can go f-k themselves and he's been doing their job for them since before IT was even a thing.

The answer is 12.  I'll save you guys the trouble.  Without person 12 the entire company would implode.

Learn the correct procedure, not the one you think you remember off the top of your head, for ground runups that doesn't cause the #1 fuel prime pump c/b to pop every time you get in the aircraft and have us chasing ghosts .......(the very same issue) that the Training pilot had to come behind you and tell you that was going to happen and it was a known cause on (every aircraft)  if you improperly start flip switches.......moron.

The single most valuable? Payroll! 

#2 and #12 usually blame the pilots headset or helmet first. Couldn't possibly be the old wiring in this vibration maker. #3 would rather murder his child than take a machine out of service for any real fixes.

...nobody has #12.  NOBODY has an avionics guy available to them.  Thus the regular wrenches, who hate chasing sparks, end up struggling through the problem for months before it gets half-ass fixed.

I'll drink to that.

Let's see who's the single most valuable asset to the Helicopter company.

I'll make a random list and you guys rank them in order of who you feel is most important based on value to the company.

1.Line pilot--All think they are most Important, but everyone knows they are found a dime a dozen in the gutters of NO

2. A&P Mech

#1 because the pilot flying is the source of the revenue stream. The mech is right behind, so close that it's nearly a wash. That steely eyed jut jawed fearless flyer ain't nothin' without an aircraft. The rest are support, necessary, but they don't directly produce product for the customer.