I can't understand the low pay

[Airpiraterob]

The flight review is commonly mis-informed as a bi-annual flight review cause its good for 24 months. but in fact its still officially called standardly as 'flight review'.

cool things about this that saved your butt:
1. you checked him out in the plane but DID NOT give him a flight review. therefore you were not responsible for any of his actions after.
2. its up to himself to keep himself current.
3. his bad judgement is all his own fault.

bad things that didnt save HIS butt:
1. outside of 90 days all he can fly is himself. read closely to carry passengers as PIC you need the 3 TO and LDG in 90 days, but if youre not taking passengers, you dont need any of that. you can sit around for 15 months, then decide to do a cross country and do it solo without the required TO and LDG's.
2. he was totally responsible for his own actions, even if lawyers try to show its someone elses fault for him acting stupid, its still the PIC of the airplane thats responsible for all safety of the flight.

i wonder if you could go and find out the last person to give him a 'flight review' and see if that person was tortured in the court?


oh yeah, and why is there brail on the ATM machines at the DRIVE THROUGH?

 

[KickSave]

Avbug, that story sounds to me as if it's the way things -should- work (with the exception of the company asking you to lie for them). Sounds like the insurance co went sniffing for who was to blame. They sniffed the co that owned the plane first, they deflected blame, and the insurance co came and sniffed around in your direction to see if you had screwed up. They got turned away because you had done your job properly, and they went sniffing elsewhere. Strikes me as the NIQ was totally at fault, as is frequently the case with this type of situation (pilot error, poor judgement), and that's where the real liability was.

Of course I'm not suggesting there is no liability in being a CFI. What I'm still wondering is how often does a CFI actually get sued (not just questioned) for an accident that was a students own fault in spite of his training.

If the CFI and the Student discuss ADM, establish realistic personal minimums, practice in sim or real IMC for the purpose of making that 180 deg turn if they ever do accidentally get into IMC, and 2 years later the student goes out and flies into Mt Baldy on a day when the weather is well below VFR, then it would strike me as if the CFI would need to produce his detailed training records to show that he did his job, and the NIQ screwed up on his own accord.

My own instructor has driven home the need for a CFI to CYA with complete records of the training he/she provides, above and beyond what the FARs require.

 

[A Squared]

re: NIQ

Nimrod in question? that doesn't really make sense. "Nimrod" means hunter. I think that it comes from Greek mythology

 

[Bluto]

Nimrod:
2. A person regarded as silly, foolish, or stupid
Of course, I could care less about this argument.

 

[A Squared]

Hmmmm, my dictionary doesn't include this definition, but then, it is about 25 years old. I guess that newer dictionaries have included this misappropriation of the word. James Kilpatrick would *never* approve. I'm sure that the British Nimrod aircrews will be quite dissapointed to see their airplane describes this way....... or maybe they could care less

 

[jarhead]

nimrod

Although I never looked the word up in a dictionary, common usage of that term around folks I frequent with, use the word commonly to describe an inexperienced, rookie type, in any field, who seems to think he knows it all, when he's still wet behind the ears.

 

[A Squared]

Re: nimrod

Although I never looked the word up in a dictionary, common usage of that term around folks I frequent with, use the word commonly to describe an inexperienced, rookie type, in any field, who seems to think he knows it all, when he's still wet behind the ears.

I think that it's only recently that it's been popularly used like that. My theory is that the word just *sounds* like it should mean that ... kinda like dimwit, nitwit, ninny, so people just started using it that way out of ignorance ... eventualy enough people were misuising it that it is has been included in the more liberal dictionaries.

 

[jarhead]

A Squared

I believe you are correct about that. There are many more words in the dictinary now, than there were a few decades ago. Common usage, slang, and new jargon relative to new technology, are the birthplace of new, officially recognized words.

I would venture to say that "Internet" was not in the dictionary before Al Gore was born.

 

[Long Time Gone]

Yet another long, drawn out thread that has lost it's topic meaning at the end...............

 

[CFI'er]

So, what you are saying is the FBO and school has no profit built into solo rental? They do make a profit with solo rental. Again, I agree, there is nothing wrong with profit, just don't try to hide it with charging phony rates.

I think one trend might be in the works for aircraft rental, cash vs credit card. There is a gas station in the area that gives a $.05 credit per gallon for paying cash. Now this is a great idea. Maybe it will get us back to a cash society rather than a plastic society.