If you do a contract flight, or a mechanic does contract maintenance for an aircraft owner and they refuse to pay after the fact, what options do I have to "encourage" the owner to pay me?
One of the big problems is that this tends to happen informally.
Owner: "Hey, can you do this fligh...
It walks the line between a legitimate question and being too broad though I think (when you consider all the different jurisdictions that an airplane could be in).
Cool, I've always heard that recording a lien and enforcing it are two different things though.. I remember reading a long time ago that pilots are kind of screwed when it comes to situations like this.
@Lnafziger thanks for the answer on the 3585 Q. I'll accept yours and compliment with a flowcharty answer. If my experience at ExpressJet is any indication, that Q should flow a lot of traffic from 121 indoc and recurrent classes.
From my cursory look at it, you got it. The only thing I would add possible is the actual opspec. I used to have a pdf with the opspec number and language in it, but I cannot find it anymore anywhere online.
I thought it was C55, but when I tracked that one down it allows adjusting alternate minimums for operators that can do engine-inop cat II / cat III ops. I'm still hunting for it
@DannyBeckett Cool, I'll leave it open for a day or two so that people get the chance to see it and add comments to help improve it. Looks good though!
oh, the sim... One of my favorites started without the oft expected V1 engine fire and progressed up to cruise altitude where we spontaneously encountered volcanic ash. We got the keep both engines, but lose all electrical busses except battery essential, lose pressurization, and host of other things. The game then is to fly with the backup instruments, while wearing the O2 masks, start the emergency descent and get it on the ground in under 40 minutes.
I just won't do it completely on my own without at least discussing it first. (not that this is a big enough change to really need a meta post either though)
@casey Hopefully they don't try that on me tomorrow (first day of the sim).
@DannyBeckett Do you think that it would be obvious enough that it doesn't include the other things that you mentioned? (performance charts, etc) if it is named aeronautical-charts instead of navigation-charts (or some variation)?
@Lnafziger: is something up? I just suggested a tag wiki excerpt for charts and it's been twice now that either Danny has been doing exactly the same thing as me or the system's screwed up the names
also I'm feeling very bitter - today was the first decent flying day we've had temperature wise, so of course the winds were gusting upwards of 30 knots all morning and it snowed in the afternoon.
@voretaq7 No matching ICAO code could be found for the IATA code FRG! Check you typed the correct 3-letter IATA code, or type its 4-letter ICAO code instead.
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We all pose our questions and answers through the lens of our experience, so I thought it would be interesting to know what each of our experience is. I've seen mention of aircraft and operations scattered in comments and answers, but perhaps it would be nice to put it all in one place.
What c...
@egid it's good because it is world-wide and has jepp charts. I've never had the current version crash though, except for one bug involving wifi dropping out (all you have to do is turn wifi off and you're fine).
If you do a contract flight, or a mechanic does contract maintenance for an aircraft owner and they refuse to pay after the fact, what options do I have to "encourage" the owner to pay me?
One of the big problems is that this tends to happen informally.
Owner: "Hey, can you do this fligh...
We all pose our questions and answers through the lens of our experience, so I thought it would be interesting to know what each of our experience is. I've seen mention of aircraft and operations scattered in comments and answers, but perhaps it would be nice to put it all in one place.
What c...
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