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In a message dated 4/20/99 9:38:00 PM, you wrote:

<<There are far too many controls on General Aviation manufacturing now. >>

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree.  But only with respect to the basic warrantee of merchantability.

If a manufacturer sells me an engine with a 2000 hour TBO, I expect to get 2000 hours out of it or get a pro rata portion of my money back.  After all, that's the kind of warrantee I get on my car tires and car battery, why should I expect any less for a $20,000 airplane engine?  Certainly, the engine must be maintained in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions, but assuming I have done so, I think I'm entitled to a guaranteed amount of life from it.

I must admit, I have not been following the AD history on the big Continentals.  I'm planning on putting a Lycoming 330 in my LNC2, and my Cessna 150 has a little Continental.  But there's no excuse for a manufacturer "suggesting" a given lifetime (a recommended TBO comes to mind as just such a suggestion) and not delivering, or worse, requiring $9000 of repairs.

Tell me if I've missed the boat here...

- Rob Wolf
rwolf99@aol.com

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