Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   AD's Date:   2/7/2017 9:57:01 AM

GF, with all due respect the vast majority of AD's are not really well thought out or necessary.  They usually stem from a problem seen on one or two aircraft out of thousands that adds tremendous cost with very little safety value.  For example, there is a wing spar AD related to cracking seen in a couple of aircraft where they detected cracks on high time airframes.  So they issued an AD requiring very costly inspections on the entire fleet regardless of time in service or any other reason for the inspection.  So millions of dollars were spent on similar aircraft for zero value because no others were found with the cracks.  And most ADs are recurring so the cost is incurred over and over with no value.  Another example, there is an AD on my airplane that requires the replacement of a clamp on the turbocharger every 500 hours at a cost of $500.  No evidence of a problem with my clamp but it had to be replaced because of a stupid AD.  Multiply that AD times the 3,000 simiar aircraft and it adds $1.5M to the cost of ownership of the fleet.  That is just one small clamp on one particular type of aircraft.  And that's one of the cheaper ADs.

So no, planes will not start falling out of the sky and crashing left and right because of the EO.....but it sounds like it to the low information types.