High Speed Passes & the FAA (long)

Good report Tom,
What's happening here? JJ being civil to a MG pilot? John Cochrane and I are
bud's over the 500 foot gate (still got a needle in your doll, over the +15
minute thing)
By Spring we'll all be Kissin' Cousins.

I would add one thing though, you wrote>>

>If the pilot kills himself breaking the rules: end of story.

If the FAA issues a citation and your insurance company gets wind of it, They
may not pay your claim, if the violation is "Causial" to the accident. Bad news
for your Hull insurance claim. REAL Bad News to your LIABILITY Claim.

I wonder it the BOD has thought about this in relation to the controversial 50
foot, Finish Line Rule which is ALLOWED in SSA Sanctioned Contests?

JJ Sinclair

I recommend you look at your liability policy. Violating FARs is no longer
an "out" for an insurance company. For example, my policy has no
limitations concerning FAR violations. A conversation with Pat Costello
several months ago confirmed that, with AIG at least, there is no longer an
exclusion associated with violating FARs. There is an exclusion involving
flying with FAA "Waivers" but it does not include "Wave Windows".

No folks, I am not recommending that anyone violate FARS. I'm merely
pointing out how things evolve.

Allan

".....................................
>
> If the FAA issues a citation and your insurance company gets wind of it,
They
> may not pay your claim, if the violation is "Causial" to the accident. Bad
news
> for your Hull insurance claim. REAL Bad News to your LIABILITY Claim.
>
> I wonder it the BOD has thought about this in relation to the
controversial 50
> foot, Finish Line Rule which is ALLOWED in SSA Sanctioned Contests?
>
> JJ Sinclair

A close friend died in a glider accident. His widow asked that I call the
adjuster since they were threatening to deny the claim because she didn't
know the weather at the time of the accident. She wasn't even there. I
spoke with some guy in NYC that sounded like he was saying with a straight
face, that unless he had exact weather information at the time of the
accident that he would deny the claim. I took his name, asked for his
supervisors name, told him that there were no less than a dozen ways that he
could have found that out without hassling the widow and told him what a
slimy piece of low lifeform he was then let him know that if it took every
last cent that I had I intended to make his life miserable and that I would
let everyone know that had the same insurance how this grieving widow was
treated. They paid up the next week.

KC
Phoenix

"F.L. Whiteley" <greeley@greeleynet.com> wrote
> IANAL, but violation of an FAR would seem to fit the case of neglience,
> hardly a cause for denial of coverage for the incident in question. It
> might play in denial of future coverage.

And indeed the club that had the accidents I mentioned (as well as
others) eventually found itself unable to secure hull insurance.

Michael