Originally Posted by
Flying Lawyer
Whopity
I can't think of a case in the UK where the pilot was "shopped by colleagues", nor where a pilot was "caught after flying erratically."
FL
We had a case here in Germany this past summer. Short before the unkontrolled airfield closed, a flight instructor and his student left on a cross-country night flight, taking off 5 min. before sunset. At first the student did the radio and all sounded find to the guys in the tower. Soon after take-off and after changing to FIS, the instructor took over the mike, and was hardly intelligible to the controllers. They also flew VERY erratically. For weather reasons they could no longer fly to their plan destination and had to be talked down into FRA. Both had WAY over the limit!! Both had their certifications revoked. The student had planned to become a professional pilot one day..... he can forget that now!
