The DCA/CAA/DOT/CASA MO
They put LAMEs out of business in exactly the same way. I recall two such instances, there’d be a long list. Often the small one man band with perhaps two or three employees simply folded and went away.
Likely they were too honest or not clever enough. One outback LAME in particular, whose name escapes me, had been held in high regard for years but was clobbered in the usual manner.
Then the classic case of Glen Butson of Polar Aviation who argued a point of view with one CASA inspector. He took CASA to court unsuccessfully and declared that he’d spent $1,000,000 to prove that CASA can do whatever it likes.
The latter is obviously not always the case but it’s a very arduous road to take on the juggernaut that couldn’t care less about due process and is always about might over right.
Take the private owner they took to court for illegal maintenance declaring they found the left hand elevator off his aircraft on his hangar floor. Too bad for CASA their lies were exposed, in part because that particular aircraft had an all flying slab tailplane.
Last edited by Sandy Reith; 10th Jun 2023 at 05:10.
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