Originally Posted by DFC
(you could park it up after the New Years Day fly-in!) and without having the aircraft away for more time than it needs to be and without having to pay £80
Parking is not always available at another field. A maintenance unit may not be able to store customers aircraft indefinitely. Such storage may also be expensive, if available, and certainly on top of regular parking arrangments.
Originally Posted by DFC
As for waiting for spares - if they affect the airworthiness then the aircraft is just as grounded
See the parking/storage thing.....you can't expect a business to burden itself with other people's aircraft when it isn't practical. Get the parts, then move the job in and do the work.
And what about
unplanned maintenance?
The system ain't broke.....no need to fix it. And as for "international standards"; the FAA have a similar thing that also seems to work fine.