C J Campbell wrote:

Every instructor I know requires a pilot to fly up to the standards of his
certificates and ratings when he does a check-out, flight review, or
whatever. If you sign a guy off and he has a commercial certificate and
instrument rating and he can't fly to those standards then I think you
might have some liability there.

I doubt it, although I cannot explain the reasoning myself.

First, we just redid our insurance. Naturally, they reviewed our rules.
But for adding a tighter currency requirement for a retract, they had
nothing but praise for our operational rules - which included the checkouts
we do.

As I said, I cannot explain the reasoning myself. I did, when I first
joined, expect precisely what you're suggesting.

Second, keep in mind that this wasn't a checkout mandated by anything other
than club rules. We're essentially a large partnership. As an ownership
situation, this is different from a "rental" type of environment.

As an owner, the only requirements "mandated" (beyond the FAA rules, of
course) are those dictated by insurance. As I mentioned, we satisfy
these...although, as I also said, I originally expected precisely what
you've suggested.

- Andrew