Originally Posted by julian_storey
...for example, if an 'N' reg biz jet and its FAA qualified crew are deemed by some piece of ill thought out legislation to be inadequately maintained and flown by an underqualified crew, then so potentially is the United Airlines 747 that flies into Heathrow. It's a nonsense.
"Keeping balance" is a good point by IO540, but the only nonsense in the quoted rant is the implication that a "biz jet" or UA 747 weighs in at less than 5700lbs.
It is the sub 5700lb aircraft they're after, and they will eventually win.
Dual oversight of maintenance is not difficult, but I would imagine it will become expensive as there will necessarily be two sets of paperwork to complete.
A lot of you N-reg bods already maintain two logbooks, FAA and JAA, as the recording requirements are slightly different: Why such a great problem to understand dual-logging all aircraft maintenance etc?