Originally Posted by
fcoolaiddrinker
as long as the pilot didn’t know they dequaled due to a paperwork issue they would still be protected under the asap program just as if they hadn’t dequaled due to paperwork issues.
You can make up any scenario but as long as no alcohol was involved and an incident/accident wasn’t intentional asap should protect. Of course judgement in the decision making process is open to scrutiny as always.
OK.
The ASAP program is NOT a get out of jail free card. While it does provide "protection" or more simply an explanation of how/why a pilot shouldn't be found at fault for a FAA rule violation (or similar) doesn't mean the FAA couldn't come back and say that despite the explanation of not knowing, the pilot SHOULD have known or taken a larger interest into their own training/qualification, and therefore . . . Frankly, I don't know what the FAA might say (I don't suppose many really do).
Let's just make sure we don't represent ASAP as some sort of saviour/infallible program that it is not.