warning (FAA)

[TurboS7]

Your friend could have fought that one and won. As a FAA inspector it is his responsibility to write up the violation. Once that happens and he submits it, it is out of his hands. I can assure that the inspector was not back there just because he enjoys riding around in single engine caravans. The company was under investigation to figure out why they had the midair, in his report I am sure that he concluded that he had the reason. The reality is that it wouldn't hold up in court unless the whole airplane full of passengers signed an avidafit saying he flew through the cloud. Of course if the pilot had declared an emergnecy then there is not one thing that the FAA could have done to him. Maybe the 90 days will give him some time to think about it.

 

[avbug]

Big Bear, California, is bush flying? I guess at that rate, LAX would be rural. Big Bear is to bush flying what herding goats is to monkey ranching. I hope that makes as much sense to you as it does to me.

It's superfluous, really. If it's in the Republik of Kalifornia, it's really flight into a foriegn country. The rules and definitions are all different.

If you had a brush with death, did you get any on you? If so, get it off; it starts to smell bad after a while. Is that at all like a toothbrush with death? Why does death need a toothbrush? Death with bad breath? Can death breathe? Perhaps a typo: the toothbrush of death. Cool mint death. Cool mint death with baking soda. And the little whiteners for sparkling nectrotic teeth.

I would strongly recommend that whatever it is on your person or property that will get you arrested, go away. Don't do that any more. Pot, stolen property, pictures of small cuddly fur animals performing unnatural acts, whatever. Avoid your long haired friend. Don't try to find loopholes around getting busted; try to find ways to be comfortably legal, such that you can say, "sure, go ahead and search."

"it's one thing to reply to kids post here who is flying a ce 172 and has a basic question, etc, and it's another to then have my well intentioned reply get ripped by a turbine jet ace."

What does that mean?

 

[tdvalve]

"The reality is that it wouldn't hold up in court unless the whole airplane full of passengers signed an avidafit saying he flew through the cloud."

You can't be serious! Do you really think a fed on your jumpseat that sees you bust a reg needs backup from the passengers in order to make a violation stick?

 

[aero99]

ocean lord,

why do you brag about being close to death 10 times? Do you think that makes you heroic? I'd say it makes you pretty unsafe.
Get a grip on the ego (i.e. bush flying in Cali- ha bout fell outta my chair) or your gonna be a smokin hole someday.

p.s. Please advise what company you fly for. I go down to the Islands once in a Full Moon and I want to make sure I don't fly with whatever you are talking about.

Scary.

 

[TurboS7]

When the pressure is on the fed lawyers go for the easy targets. If it looks like one of their inspectors could be compromised they will move onto another target to prosecute. The secret is getting the limelight on the case. I have been there done that and won.

 

[Typhoon1244]

...everyone's a little hyper vigilant these days about flying.

If by "hyper vigilant" you mean "doing your best to fly by the rules," then yeah, you're right. You should try it sometime.

 

[flyboy]

sorry buddy, but it looks as though you have just been ripped a new one. Hope it works better than the last one.