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Old 10-09-2008, 04:19 PM
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rickair7777
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Any pilot would be held responsible for flying a non-airworthy airplane, but a comm/atp/cfi would be dealt with more severely...you are held to a higher standard.

Usually the excuse is ignorance...the club mx sheet in the aircraft was falsified or the owner verbally assured the pilot that the mx was current when it was not. The FAA may have a little mercy if you were lied to, but ultimately you should have looked at the logbooks.

If you KNEW the airplane was not current, and was YEARS out-of-date, expect to lose your tickets.

Basically in 91 you should always verify the logbooks unless you trust the owner/operator with your career. I trust my club, but only because they have been spanked so hard and often by the FAA that they run a very tight ship.
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