"Snowbird" wrote in message
om...

For our type anyway, supposedly the accidents can be traced to pilot
judgement.

No doubt pilot judgment is a major cause of accidents.

It's a pretty simple aircraft to maintain, anyway, Sen. Inhofe's propeller
notwithstanding. That was a simple case of his A&Ps not following the
maint. manual procedure, not of insufficient money on maint.

It may be a simple airplane to maintain, but does that mean there are not
accidents due to insufficient maintenance? Even something as simple as a
worn tire can lead to an accident. Lots of "simple" airplanes are flown
well beyond TBO or have pencil-whipped annuals or even pencil-whipped engine
overhauls.

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Richard Kaplan, CFII

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