Interesting to see the way the customers see the aircraft maintanance business , looking from the inside i dont see 60% of the companys as places that will not do the job properly.
Yes there are places that i would not take my aircraft i know of one large company that invents work to do to bump up the bill because i was the technical rep for an owner and they soon changed there tune when it became apparent that they could not pull the wool over his eyes.
As to the standards of maintenance there are only about 5 % of the companys that i know that i would not put my aircraft with because of safety doubts ,this contrasts with about 50% of PFA projects that i see that i will have nothing to do with because the owners will not work to the correct standard , of course most of these projects never get finnished , the ones that do are normaly built to a very high standard and one RV-6 i inspected some time back is the best built aircraft that i have ever seen ,Mr boeing take note !
The fact of the matter is that GA engineering is not well paid and it is a strugle for meny of these companys to stay solvent and atract the type of people you would want to work on your aircraft in short GA gets the maintenance that it is willing to pay for.
[ 16 September 2001: Message edited by: A and C ]