Originally Posted by
Boris Badenov
Never been directly told to do anything illegal, but if you're a 135 pilot, particularly a cargo pilot, you know that at some companies dispatch has a way of forgetting certain things and leaving it to you to remember them.
Noy: Ask your attorney pal what a pilot is supposed to do when given a totally fictitious weight and balance from a load crew. Go back there and weigh it all himself? Is the FAA going to get my job back when I get fired?
Nope. He's not insensitive to the predicament. That's why he suggested I mention it in my talk.
Ultimately you are going to make a decision based on your evaluation of two risks:
- getting fired
- getting caught by the FAA, having a violation on your record, and then getting fired (after all, your boss was completely innocent of your rule violation
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and balance that against your personal integrity.