Recent content by Sudburian

I’m a defense lawyer. Civil litigation. There’s a lot of ad hominem in this dumb thread and very little discussion or actual curiosity about the law. Thought I’d wade in but ew. Peace out.

Lawsuits are expensive. If the mechanic you refer to isn’t a millionaire and doesn’t have liability insurance, why would you sue him? Are you aware of any private settlements reached with these other folks you’ve named? Or are you just assuming they weren’t pursued?

That’s a misrepresentation of the law as I’m explaining it to you, but maybe that’s your ethics at work. Generally, the law of all 50 states is that if you hurt someone, you have to pay for it. That’s the basic concept of tort law as your very own state legislature and governor has deemed it...

Why are you throwing the word “automatic” in there? The universe is out of all of our control. If you’re the founder of Google, yes, you might get sued if you ask your buddy to fly your airplane to Fiji and he dies. Or you might not. Generally when you are that closely connected to a fatality...

If you’re rich enough that anyone should care, yeah, maybe, sure. Billionaires don’t sit around surfing websites for NetJets rides. Most of them force you to sign an NDA just to have a cup of coffee on their patio.

Well, call it supposition if you want but it’s the complaint allegations. And the complaint does read as well-prepared and researched. Fact questions will be contested but I’m not seeing indications of bad faith and frivolous lawyer misconduct in it. Because it doesn’t have to be in a...

Again, it won’t really matter. Everyone involved in the chain of decisions of hiring the mechanic, up and down that chain, will easily be kept on the hook. From the plaintiffs’ perspective, the defendants can all point at each other and fight each other all day long if they want to. That’s not...

Ownership barely even matters. So let me restate it: If you instruct your minions to ferry your five-degrees-of-separation corporate entity owned airplane to Fiji, you’re still on the hook. Corporate shields can be clever attempts to immunize you from being held personally responsible as a...

Lawsuit allegations of what the FAA found during its investigation: * No Supplemental Type Certificate (“STC”) was issued for the ferry fuel system installed on the subject aircraft. * No FAA Form 337 appears to exist for the auxiliary fuel system installed on the subject aircraft * No...

Lawyer here. Not seeing anything ridiculous about this lawsuit or its theories. The complaint is posted within the article above. Brin wanted this plane to be ferried from California to Fiji. Brin personally owns a Fijian island. Unless someone can explain to me that his corporate entities...

1:30pm Eastern: Departs Toronto area, 1 hour flight, for Erie, PA. 4:00pm: Departs Erie for Lexington, KY (KIOB), 2.5 hour flight. 7:20pm: Departs Lexington, maybe for Nashville, crashed 7:43pm. I’m a new pilot like he was and what jumps out at me is that I’d be nervous about doing such a...

I saw that email and may watch that webinar too. But reading your comments persuades me to watch the fueling with my own eyes each time.

As a new pilot myself I’ve now flown with more than one experienced pilot, CFIs included, who don’t really exercise gold standard ADM or even pre-plan cross country trips. So I really question what kind of mentorship this fellow new pilot was getting, and why it is he felt so comfortable taking...

That’s the right question, and let’s also remember the fraud behind Clark County’s argument: their nonprofit, government operation does not experience any financial “loss” in any sense due to high profile events. The events bring in massive tax revenues to Clark County. They have to configure a...

If they need to deny landing privileges completely they actually can. But no, the county cannot charge a transient Skyhawk $3000 just for landing ar HND to drop off a cousin. Also, the complaining pilot dug up stats and discovered that during past high profile events in Vegas, there was...