tuc:
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Never modify a modification"
Seems to me that many pilots who find all this airworthiness stuff boring and best left to the engineers should at least relate to tuc's old saws as above. Imagine if CFS were denuded of all those expensive and fussy pilots how much money could then be saved in replacing them with scribblies and blanket stackers as happened with the airworthiness engineers. Only problem is that much of ever that we learned about flying was from similar old saws from similar wise heads. No wise heads = no wise words = much reduced pilot life expectancy. Same result as the removal of the airworthiness engineers of course.