"Bill Denton" wrote in message
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Take another look at this statement: "If the PIC determines that the plane
needs repair before being flown, and the PIC has flown the plane away from
its home location..."

I don't see how you get that interpretation. Nothing about the statement
indicates the order of "before being flown" and "the PIC has flown the plane
away from its home location".

You and Tony need to read the statement more carefully.

What this is actually saying is: "If an airplane needs repair, and you
know
that the airplane needs repair, and you fly away knowing that the airplane
needs repair, and the airplane must be repaired at a location other than
it's home base, we're going to charge you out the ass!"

That's not what it says at all. It may well be how the statement is
intended (though I doubt it), but it's definitely NOT what it says. A
statement that says something along the lines of what you claim it says
would read something like this:

"If the PIC determines that the plane needs repair before being flown, and
the PIC subsequently flies the plane away from its home location..."

Without the time-ordering, all the statement says that if the plane's
broken, you have to stay with it. Regardless of when it broke.

Pete