----discovered AC43 for the first time.
Jaba,
Strange, every amateur builder I know has his or her hard copy of AC43.13 A & B as the bible. As for LAMEs not knowing about it?? It's incorporated in just about any CAR 30 Maintenance Approval docs. that I have dealt with ----- although it (and much else similar) is now automatically "approved data" ---- see the instrument, too hard for me to find the reference this late in the evening.
Tootle pip!!
PS: You realize, of course, that other than a source of handy hints, AC 43 is not applicable to N- amateur built --- read FAR 43 to find out why, and that is part of the problem here, the confusion about applying continuing airworthiness rules for standard cat. aircraft to various experimental and limited categories.
CASA have been well aware of what to do to fix our rules since 1999, but have continually failed to make a very simple regulatory change ---- because CASA would (or those middle ranking types, more properly) would lose a little bit of "control".