Annuals ... More Harm Than Good?

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weirdjim

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Can you just imagine to keep a car on the road you had to have a full house engine leakdown compression test, ignition timing, and every openable cubbyhole on the body opened up and an inspection inside for rust? Every year?

Yeah, I know. You can't pull an airplane off to the side of the road when the $#1+ hits the fan (or the fanbelt).

BUt for a LONG time now we've been talking about the standard annual in accordance with the regs doing more harm to the airplane than things that it finds wrong. How about a discourse on this subject.

From your resident rabblerouser ...

Jim
 
I have also wondered about this exact question and what data there is to support the requirements for the inspection. I would probably do them on my aircraft even if not required.

Vague recollection here but isn’t the rate of failures in experimental higher?
 
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