question on student taxi practice

The PIC is responsible for ensuring that the airplane has
the required maintenance entries in the logbook and that the
airplane is ready for the flight. The owner is responsible
for having the work done and making the entries [making sure
that the mechanic properly signs everything off and returns
to service.] A student pilot/aircraft owner is expected to
know those regulations and maintain the airplane as well as
the 10,000 hour plane owner. That was my point.

Most students rent airplanes from an FBO and the CFI can, as
an employee or the FBO or the FBO as an agent of the CFI,
restrict access to a student pilot. If the student pilot
owns the airplane, they can fly it when they want and only
the students training and the restrictions that are complied
with, will restrict the owner/student.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Peter Duniho" wrote in
message ...
| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
| news:fqmZf.9863$t22.8410@dukeread08...
| [...] you as the owner are
| legally responsible for making [or having made] all the
| required entries in the logbooks for the engine,
propeller,
| airframe and appliances.
|
| The FAA has held that the PIC, whether the owner or not,
is responsible for
| ensuring that the airplane is airworthy (eg, "required
entries in the
| logbooks for the engine, propeller, airframe and
appliances").
|
| You're responsible for ADs under
| FAR 39 and as the owner, your CFI has less control over
what
| you do with your airplane. Once you are endorsed for
solo,
| you can fly whenever you want, whether the CFI approves.
| You will need a solo entry in your logbook every 90
days,
| but the CFI can not lock up your airplane. [...]
|
| As long as I'm nitpicking, the CFI has no more or less
control over your
| airplane when you are the owner. It's the FBO that
controls access to the
| airplane itself. I admit that this distinction is subtle,
and it's true
| that an airplane owner doesn't have to deal with the FBO
which is always
| nice. But still, if the FBO lets the student take the
airplane out, the
| fact that the CFI didn't want that to happen won't matter.
|
| Pete
|
|