Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
Maintenance choices: Good, Fast, Cheap.
You only get to pick one and the airline execs always seem to pick cheap, while pretending the other 2 will magically also happen....
There is more than a little truth in that. Perhaps ‘execs’, like the travelling public, believe that all the massively costly and inconvenient ‘regulation’ they are subjected to, should mean that the ‘cheap’ ones are also ‘good’ enough.
Having seen how profoundly some maintainers have sunk, and the deep and broad coping strategies applied by some flight ops departments, including check flights conducted completely outside the applicable regulations to cover up errors, I can only conclude that the necessary wake-up call will be truly shocking. With luck, the death toll will be minimal.