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Originally Posted by Silvaire1
In the US...
Which, unless we all up sticks and move there, is not relevant!
It is very relevant as the US system has been working for 100 years or so. EASA has been around a few years but, for light aviation, doesn't work.
I come down hard on the maintenance business, due to my experience of aircraft ownership.
Why?? Log books are abandoned by the owners, not the maintenance organisation.
EASA was forced on the maintenance firms, the old system worked OK. EASA forces us to comply with the Cessna SIDS, forces us to follow the manufacturers "recommended" maintenance program.
Yes, there are some really crap maintenance outfits but EASA has disguised them under a mountain of paperwork so the crap ones can look good and the good ones look ordinary covered in the same paperwork.
The US system works. It isn't perfect (even they lie about AD's being complied with when they haven't) but it looks after most of the world's aircraft.