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Flying without FAA medical or insurance
"darthpup" wrote in message ups.com... First, you are required by FAA regulations to have a physical. Second, in some states it is mandatory to have insurance. If you violate both the above you would probably have your license revoked and charged by the state for violation of the law. Of course if you do the above and have an accident then the judical vermin would ravage your carcass in court. This is not really a difficult problem to consider. Is there a pilot here who thinks he will not be caught??? He could probably fly for decades and never get caught. Fly in and out of small Podunk strips. Doing so is much more common than many think. Same as driving a car without a license or insurance. |
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"Dave Stadt" writes:
He could probably fly for decades and never get caught. Fly in and out of small Podunk strips. Doing so is much more common than many think. Same as driving a car without a license or insurance. I have an ex-boss who flew IFR with years without a rating. For all I know, he still does. That doesn't make right.... -- A host is a host from coast to & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |
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Dave Stadt wrote: snip This is not really a difficult problem to consider. Is there a pilot here who thinks he will not be caught??? He could probably fly for decades and never get caught. Fly in and out of small Podunk strips. Doing so is much more common than many think. Same as driving a car without a license or insurance. The great aviatrix Pancho Barnes never had a legit pilot's license until very late in life. She had to log 20 dual and 20 solo hours and took the PP-ASEL checkride although she already had thousands of logged hours. She kept a log-they just weren't valid. Viktor Belenko had the same problem, I believe- they would have honored his Soviet military pilot card and logs, but they were back in Mother Russia, and the Sovs weren't about to forward them! When the Wall came down they did, and he was able to get advanced ratings-I don't know if he ever got a MiG LOA! A lot of rural people bought airplanes cash and flew them in partial or total disregard of regulations. Some would get dual under a student ticket and never take the checkride. In the 60s and 70s it was well known some would buy Bonanzas, cabin twins, you name it, file IFR and had never had any license or ratings. There were even rumors of people who would buy Lears cash and fly them around with anyone gullible enough to sit in the right seat. Many others would get legal at one point and then just quit getting medicals and BFRs and whatnot. I'm sure there people flying in the bushes "bootleg" but if they are going in and out of controlled fields sooner or later they are going to run into ramp checks, or someone will put two and two together. If you're really old or really wealthy and judgement proof you may say WTF, but I can't imagine young people in any numbers doing this. I'm not sure what they'd do to you today. If people are doing it in numbers, they are getting nailed at least often enough to supply the answer. Anyone "know"? |
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Its comforting to hear such lame reasoning coming from licensed?
pilots. Do I detect a note of lawlessness here? |
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Flying without FAA medical or insurance
darthpup wrote:
Its comforting to hear such lame reasoning coming from licensed? pilots. Do I detect a note of lawlessness here? I haven't heard anybody advocating lawlessness, just being honest about admitting that it exists, and admitting that people who engage in it are unlikely to get caught. To pretend otherwise would be foolish. |
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"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message ... On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 21:30:38 +0000 (UTC), (Roy Smith) wrote: For all I know, my folicles have been violated multiple times. And was that good for you? Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA) ROFL... |
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I said: I have an ex-boss who flew IFR with years without a rating. For all I know, he still does. That doesn't make right.... Hours later, it occurs to me that a reader here might think I was referring to a far more recent ex-boss, one who posts here. I was not. When I worked for Chuck, he was spending all his money on boats err MMU's not AMU's. I don't even know if he'd been in a GA aircraft back then. The ex-boss I referred was long ago, before I went to engineering school...and about 65% of Chuck's size. He fit into a Mooney. -- A host is a host from coast to & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 |
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Darthpup,
I bought my first aircraft from a little old carpenter who had diabetes and couldn't pass the physical. He NEVER had a license or a medical but he flew for over 20 years before ground-looping the Funk in a crosswind (tail wheel was unlocked) and folding up a gear leg. This was in Tulsa, Ok back where there was a real FSDO to come inspect the incident. The FAA and the owner worked a deal out: sell the bird and we won't press charges. I bought the thing, worked on it all winter, and enjoyed the heck out of that thing until I sold it about 4 years later. So, will you go to jail if you don't have a license? Maybe so today, but not very often back in the '70s and '80s. -----Original Message----- From: darthpup ] Posted At: Sunday, January 01, 2006 4:28 PM Posted To: rec.aviation.owning Conversation: Flying without FAA medical or insurance Subject: Flying without FAA medical or insurance First, you are required by FAA regulations to have a physical. Second, in some states it is mandatory to have insurance. If you violate both the above you would probably have your license revoked and charged by the state for violation of the law. Of course if you do the above and have an accident then the judical vermin would ravage your carcass in court. This is not really a difficult problem to consider. Is there a pilot here who thinks he will not be caught??? |
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"David Lesher" wrote in message ... Hours later, it occurs to me that a reader here might think I was referring to a far more recent ex-boss, one who posts here. I was not. The ex-boss I referred was long ago, before I went to engineering school...and about 65% of Chuck's size. He fit into a Mooney. And the hole just gets deeper and deeper...... |
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I don't think the FAA has the authority to send anyone to jail - has anybody
ever heard of being arrested by the FAA? I don't think they have the power to confiscate airplanes either - the only ones I have ever seen confiscated are done by US Customs or Repo men. DB |
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