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From: wool@oracle.UUCP (Chris Wooldridge)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Declaring emergencies, etc.
Message-ID: <146@oracle.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 04:05:30 EST
Article-I.D.: oracle.146
Posted: Mon Dec  9 04:05:30 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Dec-85 04:33:04 EST
Organization: ORACLE Corporation, 2710 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025
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Keywords: emergency, FAA, FAR 91.3, litigation

A week or two ago, someone cited the famous "forged logbook" case as a
rationale for not declaring emergencies -- because big bad FAA would yank
your license.    This month's AOPA Pilot has the complete story of this
one.  The flight instructor got his legal expenses back through the Equal
Access to Justice Act.   The FAA does seem to have been overzealous, but
the fact that the student filed the original complaint, withdrew it and
then denied ever having made it... hard to figure out exactly WHAT happened.

The article talks about how the act not only allows you to recover legal
expenses from wrongful prosecution (even in admin hearings, NTSB, etc.),
but its effect on the FAA's enforcement actions.

Also in the issue - a pirep on the new super-duper Mooney 252, which should
leave the Wichita crowd in the dust.  There is life after Lopresti ...

(Mooney N6213U)
-- 
Chris Wooldridge
Oracle Corporation
1100 206th Avenue, N.E.
Redmond, Wa.   98053
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