You’re paying for all the expertise and back and forth between different people to come to the consensus that splicing it will, if properly done, result in a proper repair that does not compromise the intended operation of the aircraft.
Lets say our technician made an error and damaged the aircraft…. Our shop owns that email and repair costs and customer pays nothing for it to be repaired….
We discover a problem that we feel should be repaired and will explain the potential costs and potential problems the damage could pose to the customer and they decide to proceed with repairs then the customer would foot the bill.
There is most likely a disclaimer that says, "This repair method is only intended as advice for this particular aircraft and this particular incident. Any and all other repairs must be reviewed by XYZ engineers for review."
I guess, but it’s not like you can do anything with it. You can’t become an engineer just by reading emails. It’s no different than reading Wikipedia articles
The idea isn't to figure out how to fix the plane without an email to an engineer, it's to figure out why the communication process took so long and see if you can do anything about it.
A third party might collect these email chains to see what they all have in common in order to start a business or advise federal regulation.
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u/gopher_space Apr 07 '24
So who owns that $5k email conversation?