Please read this. This is what's killing GA and we ought to do something
about it.
http://www.cdapress.com/articles/200...ews/news04.prt
and this
http://www.news4jax.com/news/4269212/detail.html#
Please take it for what its worth -- a money grab. Even if on your worse
days you have a bone to pick with ATC, recognize that these lawsuit outcomes
are not truly about the truth or whose at fault; its about who has the deep
pockets. The ultimate question is: what's the PICs responsibility? These
outcomes blame ATC. If the pilot were to have been presented during his
written exam with hypothetical questions encompassing the same facts, what
do you think his answers would have been if the choices were either to blame
the PIC or to blame ATC?