DFC
Please help me, I dont understand your point.
How can light aircraft maintenance for the average owner operator or even small flying school be a level playing field?
Most people are far too busy to have the time not so much to get the aircraft to some far flung maintenance organisation but more to the point to get back. I doubt that many owners take their aricraft far from their local field, if they even do that.
A days loss of income may represent 20% or so of the total cost of an annual, so going further afield will often end up costing more.
Moreover there can be all sorts of other hassels associated with doing so not least including the weather hampering plans to move aircraft around, particularly if there is no let down at the maintenance organisation base and having to use other MOs if there are minor snags between checks to name but two.
How do you square the circle?