Maintenance standards are worrying engineers as much as pilots.
The CAA have relaxed to the point where they are fast asleep.
There is as always another side to the story, but first just a thought, next time you get to speak to the guy actually working on your plane (not his boss) ask him what he earns, you might be horrified.
OK on with the tale, how about the pilot who asked enginering to reassemble a very sick aeroplane so that he could taxi it into a tree for an insurance claim.
Then there was the guy who boasted about how many hours he was doing training for the helicopter championships. When the log book came in for annual not a single entry for the relevant period.
Then there was the guy who didn't think that the maker gave him enough battery power, so he would fit a totally illegal parallel
battery the moment it came out of engineering.
Then there was the guy found adjusting his autopilot actuators not long after engineering had certified it.
The pilot given two phone numbers for local engineering companies after he flew in with engine trouble. Didnt bother flew away and failed to make his destination(non fatally).
All these people potentially placed engineers careers at risk. They didn't give a damn. Enginers go on to the bigger operators and leave G.A well behind and who can blame them.