I came across this document from RA-Aus and thought it relevant to this thread.
Safety: Recent RA-Aus accident history
Very interesting reading sinbinned, thanks for posting
What the F$#& are you guys on. Honestly. Read your own posts again, and again, and have a think about what your suggesting/insinuating.
First we have someone suggesting TBO's are "Stupid", then lowering maintenance standards and see what happens,
Then we get someone suggesting TBO's are poorly thought through, Not arrived at through Generations of Aircraft Engine Building and maintenance experience gained by the Majors, including now Rotax,
and Finally, we have a suggestion that the only reason we have maintenance Regs is due to a Country, Nay, worldwide conspiracy by Maintainers, specifically qualified ones for Job Protection!!
let thy head bangeth!! Let the Professional Pilots out there do what they do well, day in/day out and for Christ's sake, let the maintainers do what they are trained to do and have a think about the fact that the manufacturer's have just a little bit more of an idea about how they want their machines maintained than you.
If there's one thing that demonstrates a narrow, closed down mind its the expression of incredulity and self righteousness when someone postures an 'us and them' attitude which makes broad and uneducated assumptions about the people on here, who they are, what their experience is.
You can bang your head all you like Perspective (and may it, through some bizarre warp in the space/time continuum, give you some!) but the fact is that the 2000 hr TBO regime is not a guaranteed solution to the many issues caused by forced maintenance at engine-hours expiration and at best is a compromise solution that often doesn't take into account numerous variables. With the engine monitoring technology we now have it would be far better to log and track usage and come up with an alternative set of rules/guidelines. Engine management computers that log running stats over the engine's life and can be interrogated have been in cars for decades; It's madness that we can't do something similar in aircraft. (Or alternatively we could just shutdown all conversation on this subject because people like you think we're all on something for even uttering such sacrilegious notions....)
I too have experienced engineers attempting to work me over and charge extraordinary fees that were unwarranted for things that didn't really need to be done. Like Wally Mk2 said, there are shifty people in both arenas, a/c owners/operators and engineers.
So before deciding to bang your head maybe you could articulate some intelligent arguments around some of these concepts and add to the debate rather than just castigating people.