Lawsuit in HPN accident

"Neil Gould" wrote in
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Recently, Steve S posted:

It didn't take them very long.


http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/p...20050527/NEWS0
2/505270315/1018

Hey, it's a lot easier than chasing ambulances.

Here's the part that gets me:
"We do not contend that flying in small planes is dangerous, rather
that American Flyers failed to properly manage the risks in flying and
in so doing cut short this young man's life," said Paul Marx of the
firm DelBello, Donnellan, Weingarten, Tartaglia, Wise and Wiederkehr,
who is representing Alexei and Olga Naoumov. "There is no defensible
or logical reason for a primary flight student who was still learning
how to fly in visual conditions to be receiving training in weather
conditions that were at or below those minimally required for
instrument flying. Doing so is simply reckless and irresponsible."

Disregarding whether or not the instructor handled the situation
properly, how many of you feel that getting experience in actual IMC
during flight instruction is a bad thing?

Getting IMC exposure is not the problem.

Do you believe it is responsible to take a 32-hour, non-soloed student
pilot into weather that is BELOW IFR MINIMUMS?