Creampuff, what if our proverbial dent in the leading edge is exactly like all the other dents that have been inspected and passed by our LAME for years?
Then your LAME will have no hesitation in taking responsibility for certifying it airworthy, again.
What about our burnt out landing light when we are flying only day VFR?
How did you find out that it was burnt out? In any event, if it’s charter or RPT, and not the subject of one of the exceptions, it must be rectified before further flight.
What about the quick phone call to the engineers back at base?
What about it?
Where is the common sense and reasonableness? Are we regarded as too stupid?
I’d highly commend to you the first two paragraphs of Titan 404’s post above. Read them twice.
The regulatory option is patently clear and actually results in cost savings rather than law breaking.
Unfortunately, common sense is uncommon in GA and one pilot’s reasonable is another pilot’s unreasonable.