OK Bose-X

Show us the hard evidence of these ripp off charges.

Please explain what you mean in terms of hard evidence?

The post earlier in this thread of £700 a year or a scanned copy of my friends bill for £3k for his Cessna? Or the quotes I received when looking for a CAMO originally?

Or the countless posts on here quoting fees and people asking if they are reasonable?

Or do you think this is all anecdotal and really everyone is being charged a *fair fee and just making up stuff to complain about?

*fair in an engineers estimation.

This bit of banter going on reminds me of sports commentators:
- those that can do - do,
- those that cant do - talk about it

Whats the issue here - CAMOs overcharging or owners dumb enough to pay ridiculous amounts? Nobody is tied to a CAMO unless they have put themselves in that commercial position, my costs are marginally up - but nothing to get uppety about, are to be expected and I am happy with the situation.

In truth everybody - MO/CAMO/Owner has been led down the garden path by our glorious knee-jerk CAA to no safety benefit except the emptying of everybodys wallet requiring mass & balance recalcualtions. Requirements mis-interpreted at the outset by the CAA such as lifed items and back to birth research at the outset have naturally filtered through the system and only now are starting to be put right. Dont blame the CAMO for doing what the've been told from above - its not cricket. If only they would let go of their empire more gratiously, we would all get along a lot better.

Flight Manuals are the latest saga - how on earth can it be a good idea and safe to have two identical planes with two different flight manuals. FFS!

Spot on Malcolm.

Last year there was a lot of fuss about Cessna seatbelts being lifed items. Can't remember which way round but I think the C152 belts weren't calendar lifed but the C150s were. So owners had to have then replaced purely on calendar life and not condition.

I note that in Germany they have fought and won an exemption from this.

There is no doubt that the villain of the piece was the CAA who still don't see there is anything wrong.