wrote:
Newps wrote:
Paul Tomblin wrote:
Does this hypothetical pilot have enough education to
determine that there is no hidden damage? Wingtip damage sometimes
results in wing root damage, particularly at the aft spar.

I guess that's one argument. However, you can take anything to an
extream. Hitting the nav light plastic cover with the hanger door
wouldn't seem too important to most of us. In the end a pilot must make
his own determination. There is probably not a plane in the air that
the FDSO couldn't ground for one reason or another. Pilots must use the
best common sense they have.

I would imagine that ferry permits were created to protect
people from themselves.

My bet is that the permits were created as a legal loophole so the FSDO
couldn't strand your plane in some remote area that wasn't capable of
performing the required maintenance. Once the FAA uses the
"unairworthy" word a pilot is otherwise stuck. Those of us who have
done some bush flying have had situations where we've needed to fly
"unairworthy" planes out of remote areas. I've had insurance companies
pay me to fly planes that have had illegal field repairs (although done
by licensed IA's) that would have required major alteration 337's to
otherwise fly out of very remote areas (or countries), especially when
flight controls have been damaged and repaired.

-Robert