Anonymous

I own a 50-year-old Cessna 180. For the FAA to issue what is essentially an emergency AD and to ground virtually every Cessna piston engine airplane ever produced until it can be inspected and signed off by a mechanic is another outrageous example of the FAA's heavy-handed regulatory authority. My airplane has never had any work done to this item in its history. And yet it is effectively grounded in three days. This action is a gross example of the bureaucratic nightmare that has become the FAA. There would have been any number of ways to address what is essentially a non-issue with 99.9% of the airplanes in the single engine fleet. But yet again, the FAA feels the need (with no accountability whatsoever) to over-regulate, over-tax, and over-burden the general aviation sector. The FAA needs a complete overhaul, as it has ceased to perform any valuable service to the taxpayer and has grown to the point of becoming a hindrance rather than a help.