Pilot claims no blame in July crash

"RK Henry" wrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:14:59 -0700, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:


"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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European and UK rules may be different, in the USA, the name
on an IFR flight plan as PIC must be a current IFR rated
pilot.


"Must be" and "is" are not necessarily the same; there is no cross-check
at
the time the flight plan is filed.

Even if there were a cross-check that a pilot holds an instrument
rating, there's no practical way to cross-check whether the pilot is
instrument current.

RK Henry

It is all a moot point as one could simply use the name of any known current
instrument rated pilot.