Ramp check do's And don'ts

[flywithastick]

Yell "Quick Bob hide the weed"

don't tell me... the FAA has drug enforcement authority too?! wouldn't suprise me. I saw where IRS and department of education authorities are even carrying sidearms these days.

 

[ShawnC]

Just because they can't charge you doesn't mean that they can't detain you. Heck after all there still is citizen arrest, tough many hesitiate to use it because of all the darn lawsuits.

 

[Timebuilder]

never admit to previously flying the aircraft.

never admit to anything.

before he leaves ask him pointblank 'are there any violations?" If he says no then you later take off he has no violatioon against you. he cannot mislead you.

every word you say can be used against you in a violation hearing. keep it shut!

do cooperate, if you are acting like a jerk and piss him off you will have problems.


to end the ramp check early, tell him you have to leave NOW, as you have a clearance void time (uncontrolled fileds only) and he cannot delay you.

Someone straighten me out here. How are you supposed to answer his questions?

You're standing next to an aircraft on the ramp. He watched you taxi in. How are you supposed to 'never admit that you have previously flown the aircraft'?

How do you answer the questions without admitting to anything?

Suppose you tell him you have to leave due to a clearance void time. He whips out his icom radio and monitors the airport frequencies. As you depart, he discovers that there was no clearance void time which was about to expire. Does the inspector cite you for making a false statement in the course of a regulatory investigation?

Bobby, you're in law, what do you think?

 

[Chunk]

Void time

It doesn't have to be a void time....just say you are scheduled to leave in 5 minutes....The schedule doesn't have to be written down...just what was planned by the PIC.