Firstly, I am not opposed to wear rate in this game. However, with the current state of things, the wear rate on some items, like brakes, is crazy high to the point where you need to check the landing gear subsystem after every single flight to maintain your tires and brakes. You have to do this manually, as the game will give no feedback on the issue, even if you check the landing gear subsystem, it will show green when it’s really not.
This is further compounded by the fact that the subsystem will say “good” and show a green circle. This tells the player that they are fine. The technician also says the plane is “good to go”. This also tells the player that things are great. This is not true however.
Individual items within subsystems, such as landing gear, can need maintenance, and the overall subsystem will show as green, as well as the technician being green. The player has no idea something is wrong unless they dive into every single subsystem to manually see if something needs maintaining.
The UI needs to be more clear about if there are items beneath a subsystem that need maintenance when it is checked Also, the wear rate for certain items needs balanced because it’s ridiculous to check and maintain items every single flight on the C 172. Before anyone suggests it, yes I’m landing slow, and no I’m not locking up the brakes.
The entire maintenance and wear systems in this game need a UI overhaul and balance IMO.
EDIT: I think what is happening is that subsystems are taking the average of the conditions of the items underneath it, and the technician does the same with the entire aircraft.
This is not intuitive because, for example with a car, if the brakes need maintaining, but nothing else does, a person does not say their car doesn’t need maintenance. This should be updated so that if any individual part needs maintenance, the subsystem it is under should say it needs maintenance, and the technician should also say it needs maintenance. This is how people think about vehicles in real life. Knowing the average condition is not useful in any capacity.