Ya need new friends... Your IA friend is CYA (not necessarily a wrong
posture, but certianly not courageous)...
The factory is perfectly happy to take such a stance because they will
sell high profit replacement parts... Every FSDO manager in the
country is praying that no one drops this dispute on 'his' desk,
threatening his retirement...
In a lifetime of banging around airplanes I have seen repaired,
rebuilt, even to the point of literally being brand new, controls
surfaces inspected and signed off as an acceptable field repair...
Now maybe an IA that New Piper has on record of having told he must
replace with new might feel constrained... But any active IA, who
actually drives rivets and overhauls magnetos, etc., will likely not
blink at signing off on a competent repair... The word is competent...

cheers ... denny



Michelle P wrote:
wrote:


After discussing this with my A&P/IA friend, he said he was told by a New Piper Aircraft rep that the official word is
that the official stance is that now control surface are NOT repairable. He went further to say that the IA was bound to adhere to
this, now that he knew.