Although you can't read, Steve, others can.
[T]he problem with this approach to maintenance, is that ... infant mortality .... comes into play. There is always a finite chance that the new part you install will be defective, and as a result, you've removed a perfectly good part and discarded it, in favor of a bad one.
Compounding this is the finite and real probability that the process of maintenance itself will cause problems.
Another weird quirk of aviation is that manufacturers and maintainers pretend they are perfect and nothing they produce and none of the work they do is defective.
When I give it away and go fishing, that will be another lost job in the GA maintenance industry.
Anyway, I'm still trying to solve the mystery of the statement that "CASA recently rescinded the control cable AD" in the AOPA magazine interview with the new CEO of CASA.
Is that statement just a case of AOPA and the CEO of CASA being clueless about what's happening in the real world?