Thankfully she is a member of AOPA and the Legal Plan. She did call the Legal Helpline and she was told that agent can go either way with it. If he wants to he can argue that because she could not produce when he was there, the case can be made that she was flying without it onboard. The fact that she produced it later may not work as she could have (hypothetically) can a friend fly it to her from home or whereever, bottom line she did not produce it so how is he to know that she actually had it.
I figured that they should not be speaking with others regarding an open investigation. Just didnt know if they were actually barred from doing so.
She is placing calls to attorney's from the AOPA panel of attorney's now. The first one she spoke with felt like the NASA form would be argued against by the FAA as this was not a flying incident, but rather a more adminstrative type incident. She is calling around to other attorney's today. I always thought that unless the incident was "intentional" or part of a crime.....the NASA form was your one freebie.