Spoken like a true engineer!!!
The back room cost of you running your business should not be the burden of the customer. The cost of you keeping the records for you to operate within the regulation should not be the burden of the customer.
Notwithstanding my previous comment. There may be justification in the minds of some engineers in recovering those costs from there customers directly initially. However to keep coming back is inexcusable.
Care to explain how owners doing there own CAMO work outside of the controlled environment are managing if it is such a highly skilled task?
I don't have an issue with an engineer making an element of cost recovery. What I do have is an issue with them raping there customers. I had a friend who was charged 50hours of 'engineering' work to have his books checked for part M by the same engineering company that had being doing the work for 7 years. Makes me wonder what they hell they were doing for the previous 7 years?