Mike,
The crowd is uncharacteristically quiet. I suspect they're all huddled over their FARs with magnifying glasses looking to see if the outlandish statements that I made are true.
I can save you the trouble guys. It's all spot-on. I ran it past my PMI before submitting it last night and he, too, thought it was a good explanation of an often-misunderstood topic.
(My "PMI", or Primary Maintenance Inspector, is the FAA maintenance inspector at the Houston FSDO that I answer to. Each FSDO has several inspectors designated as PMIs and all of the IAs reporting to that FSDO are assigned to PMIs. Depending on the size of the aviation community, each PMI might have 5-20 IAs "reporting" to him. In a nutshell, the PMI is the liaison between the aviation maintenance community and the Big Bad FAA.)
Harvey
