Kev wrote:
So every time a pilot violates the FAR's they must file a report?

I can come up with four different scenarios:

*grin* Actually, here's a fifth:

5) Through no fault of your own, the aircraft develops a serious
problem and you let out a Mayday. ATC clears the sky for you.
However, figuring that you might as well take advantage of your
emergency authority to deviate from the FARS, you break out a case of
beer and down a few to calm your nerves. Now tipsy, you zoom over a
few crowded mall parking lots just to show everyone the smoke trailing
from your engine. You drop your empty bottles on the people below.

Well. You can deviate from the FARs to the extent required by the
emergency, of course. But you can't just break FARs during an
emergency for the heck of it.

Kev
(obviously with too much time on my hands today)