Good heads up.....

Something to remember is that in order to have a suit, you need an injured
class....
We should hang any fellow pilot by the nipples if they join in this
silliness. (I would have
said Balls, but this is a PC group) If nobody is aggrieved, no suit can
proceed.

Secondly, premature release is an event the FAA acknowleges happens
periodically
in the normal operation of sailplanes. If it didn't, we wouldn't train for
it. Since the feds
have us train on it, it would appear to be a "normal potential outcome" of
towing and
somewhat immune from suit.

There is a third alternative......... Get a soaring friendly attorney to
sue "S" pro-bono
for accidental releases, ask for a class with a $1000 award. Donate it to
the NSM.


"Pete Brown" wrote in message
...
In the current online classified ads of SOARING, I note that
two attorneys from Seattle are apparently trolling for
dirt from soaring fans in the US regarding "uncommanded
releases" from tow aircraft equipped with Schweizer
tow hooks.

Probably no single industry in the United States has been
harmed more by frivolous tort claims promoted by trial
lawyers than the U.S civil aviation industry. In the United
States, probably no company has done more to aid our sport
and make it affordable than the Schweizer Aircraft Company
and the Schweizer family.

Further, I can think of no sport where each individual
participant must more consciously analyze and accept the
risks of participation in each flight and take the steps
necessary to mitigate the risk associated with each flight.

I would strongly encourage all US pilots and friends of
aviation to hang up on these attorneys should they contact
you and I find it disgraceful that the official publication
of the Soaring Society of America would publish such an ad.

Pete Brown
Alaska Mountain Soaring
Anchorage, Alaska

http://home.gci.net/~pdb/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akmtnsoaring/