the Puffster,Jabba or yr right,would you want doing your next 100 hourly?
LewC,
I better not answer that, on the grounds that it may be defamatory.
I never cease to be amazed that aviation is such a concentration of old wives tales, "rules of thumb" and generally immovable prejudices, despite it being one area of human activity where the technical answers, the engineering answers and the operational answers are more thoroughly known than in most fields of human endeavor.
For those apprentices that go on to be LAMEs, it starts with TAFE, and is consolidated on the hangar floor, with disinformation passed down from master to apprentice, with too may pilots, it is the flying club or school, with the blind leading the blind.
I am reminded of the days when at least one "Royal" had the mixtures of its DH Gipsy engines wired off, and the carb. hear wired on ---- what a substitute for proper training.
Tootle pip!!