instructor insurance
A student was taxying with one of the instructors where I work and they hit a rut in the muddy grass which turned the a/c to clip the rudder of a parked a/c (this is as it was described to me). It sounded like the sort of thing that could happen to anyone. The school a/c was undamaged.
The instructor has been asked to pay the excess on the insurance (about £500 I believe) to pay for repairs to the parked a/c. It got me thinking about whether this is standard practice and whether I should get some insurance in case it ever happened to me.
What happens at other schools ? Does anyone know whether it is, in fact, possible to get insurance of this type ?