the great CAsA concern is that ageing aluminium aircraft will fall out of the sky.
the reality is that only 3 designs have had structural breakups in the air.
the tiger moth predates design standards and is a time honoured design.
the other two designs that broke up were caused by the regulator's incompetence.
the pzl dromadier was approved for increased weight for water bombing.
the aerocommander was approved for increased weight because..., just because.
both of those designs have shed wings in flight in turbulence.
the old cessna you would think would be a candidate for in flight breakups.
...but I don't know of any.
the fluffy headed "we know safety" nutters in CAsA are totally off the planet on this one. they have prevented owners from carrying out maintenance on privately owned cessna's and now the remedial SIDS is the result.
CAsA are utter nutters. THEY are the cause of the problem.
If CAsA had any intellect at all what should happen are 3 things.
1. introduce Canadian owner maintenance for private owners.
2. allow for the decertification of privately owned commercially built aircraft
3. introduce an experimental - amateur maintenance category of registration for any privately owned aircraft.
because of the deeply entrenched nutter mentality of the place I'll bet they won't.
If I owned a Cessna I'd be suing the arse off CAsA for preventing effective owner maintenance.