Moreoever these costs are an issue of economy of scale.
Like any regulatory costs they may be better absorbed by larger concerns.
However, some of the best engineers do not fall into that category. There life long work has been in this business - they are as good as any, and better than most when in comes to working on some of the ageing and traditional GA fleet.
I know Maurice well and he most certainly falls into that category.
If he, or any others like him, were unable to continue in business because of these signficant increases it would be a very sad day.
Maurice has devote a great deal of his time to this matter and he is to be congratulated for doing so in my view.