Heliport brings up an interesting point; Should we police ‘our own’ or not? The answer is I don’t know (partly why I asked for advice here in the first place).
As
aiglon said – what would you do if you knew someone was not having their a/c properly maintained – have a quiet word? What if that didn’t work?
Is maybe the issue here really our ‘perception’ of what is right and wrong rather than what is ‘legally’ right or wrong?
Let me give you some examples (these are fictional so please allow me some latitude here):
Scenario 1.
You have a mate who flew low over a Motorway – Do you shop him?
You have a mate who regularly flies low over a Motorway, you’ve had a word but he continues to do it – Do you shop him?
You have a mate who flew low over a Motorway. Later that day, you hear that 10 people died in a pile up, witnesses blamed a low flying aircraft – Do you shop him?
Scenario 2.
You have a mate who one night drove home ‘over the limit’ – Do you shop him?
You have a mate who regularly drives over the limit – Do you shop him?
You have a mate who knocked a child over whilst over the limit – Do you Shop him?
Scenario 3.
You are at a mate’s house, he is out and you are surfing the net on his computer. Curiosity gets the better of you and you have a nose around in his files. On his hard drive, you find some hardcore porn – Do you shop him?
The images have a fairly unpleasant bondage theme – Do you shop him?
The images are of small children – Do you shop him?
You see, as I said above, is it perhaps not necessarily ‘The Law’ that we react to, but our own personal perception of what is ‘right and wrong’?
I’m happy to stand corrected, be flamed (I’m fairly used to that by now
) or whatever but It would be interesting to hear some thoughts. . .
BH