Don Hammer wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:15:32 -0400, Luke Scharf
wrote:


There are a several meticulous A&Ps in my area. However, most of them
got their A&P (and IA in one case) so that they could work on their own
airplane. The generally won't work on random people's airplanes,
though, because of the liability. Their day-job pays the bills.

-Luke


I'm sort of in the same boat. I earn a living consulting in aviation
and won't use my A&P/IA on small aircraft with the exception of a
couple of friends gliders I keep annualed. I can't afford to risk my
livelyhood for little money with the way a lawyer will go after you
after an accident.

It's kind of ironic, but I have no problem signing off my work on a
$45M Gulfstream, but the thought of my name in the book of a Cessna
scares me to death, not for the work I have done, but for what has
happened before or after I worked on it. If you follow along with the
Aircraft Owners NG and read what some of them do to their own
aircraft, you can understand what I am talking about. On the witness
stand, the name in the book is the rope they hang you with.

You don't think the owner of a Gulfstream or his or her estate won't sue
you just as fast (and probably faster) then a private owner?


Matt