My comments will be interspersed:


"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"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".

I didn't get that interpretation; that language comes directly from the
rental agreement! And while the language may be a bit sloppy, the intent is
perfectly obvious. If the pilot knows something is wrong before he flies, he
would obviously have that information after he has flown.



You and Tony need to read the statement more carefully.


May I first suggest that it is you who needs 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

The problem is that you haven't the slightest idea what the intent of this
section of the agreement is. It is saying that if you are aware of a problem
with the aircraft, yet you fly the aircraft anyway, and that flight
exacerbates the previously existing problem, necessitating a repair before
the aircraft can returned to it's base, you will be responsible for costs
associated with that repair. As I said, the language in the rental agreement
is not the best in the world, but this is how that would be interpreted.