Myths?
Above it has been said that companys employ kids, whel this is partly true but these kids have to be supervised and you can't let them do a lot of stuff because it is far to safety critical.
These "kids" are also the next generation of LAME's so you have to give them the time to aquire skills, this all costs money and eats into the (very small) profit.
The CAA is also a big expense with the way they administered the introduction of Part M, last week they sent us a letter telling us that they will reduce the cost of approvals for part M, the one thing that was missing from the letter was any numbers! however I can assure Bose-X that we will pass on the savings to the customers in full.