I thank you all for your continued comments. I would like to say that all pilots flying our a/c do so on a regular basis and have a large vested interest in them being well maintained. They want any discrepancy dealt with because they will be back to fly them again. Unfortunately what seems to happe...

It's an interesting topic for me. Clearly there are differing opinions on this. There is such a thing as maintenance induced failures. I think they can come about regardless of how meticulous and careful an AME is. You can't look without effecting, at least to a small degree, the thing your looking ...

The plane is co-owned and I am definitely on your side of thinking ahramin. Thanks for the comment.

Greetings, Does anyone besides those required to by law, do 100 hour inspections on their a/c. Specifically a legacy 172M. If you flew a couple hundred hours a year would you do one? Thanks.

Greetings, We have a small group of flyers who share a couple of 172s. I'm wondering what the regulation (Canadian) is, if there is one, regarding exactly what is on a standard run up checklist. Can we use an off the shelf plastic list we purchase? Does it exactly have to reflect what is in the POH?...