Originally Posted by rickair7777
I hope you guys are kidding and are not actually that ignorant. I agree it is totatally ludicrous from the standpoint of fairness and reasonableness, but plaintiff's attornys are interested in only ONE thing and it's NOT fairness. Juries don't know sh*t about aviation, so they can be easily led astray. After all, every juror DOES know that all pilots are reckless thrill-seekers who endanger themselves and the public on a daily basis...
What I meant by ludicrous was that it is completely idiotic that it is
legal and acceptable to crash your airplane and then have you or your family turn around and sue the CFI that gave you a BFR 10 years ago. Im a CFI myself and I know the liability exists. If I signed a guy off for a BFR and then he didnt fly again until the last day before his currency runs out and then he decides to take his buddy up and they end up lawn-darting it into some old ladies house who then has a heart attack and dies, I am going to be very irritated if a lawyer comes knocking on my door. As far as I am concerned when I signed his BFR he was current and safe (or else I wouldn't have signed it!) What he does in the intervening 2 years before his next one is due is
his business and
he is responsible for his actions. Now wether or not that holds up in a court of law...
