Originally Posted by
Shortie
What about liability to the crewmembers who file the flight plan? If mistakes are made by the pilots, who will oversee the safety of the flight? Dispatch is obviously not overseeing the flights if the crews have to file their own flight plans. I've had a harder time lately getting a response from dispatch while enroute. Filing our own flight plans only serves to expose us to more liability and less oversight. I think the MEC should put out a statement advising pilots against this practice.
Ding!!
If you don't have a dispatch certificate you shouldn't be doing the work of a dispatcher. You're opening up a can of worms that a lawyer would slap you for.
It's not that pilots aren't smart enough to call flight service, it's that we aren't trained to take on the responsibility and liability.
Not your circus, not your monkeys.
Ghetto paralegal out!