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If there’s a way to make the rounds on aviation social media, its bellying in a tough old warbird—with a cool photo as proof. Image credit goes to the resourceful Aviation 24/7 on Facebook. But with thorough maintenance records, good insurance coverage and a pilot with tight logbooks, the liability risks are reduced. For the unprotected, pilot liability is complicated with the potential for financial ruin, so Senior Editor and aviation attorney Rick Durden lays it all out in an important field report.

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Pilot Liability: Mitigating the Risks

Tools to help protect you should something go wrong, and to help you keep that something going wrong from ever happening.

Rick Durden

August 19, 2024

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Tools to help protect you should something go wrong, and to help you keep that something going wrong from ever happening.

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Rick Durden

Senior Editor Rick Durden has written for Aviation Consumer since 1994 and specializes in aviation law. Rick is an active CFII and holds an ATP with type ratings in the Douglas DC-3 and Cessna Citation. He is the author of The Thinking Pilot’s Flight Manual or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It, Vols. 1 & 2.

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