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How does that equate with the 'pilot', being witnessed at 100 feet above a road on a moonlit night just before the crash that killed him and his passenger?
The lawsuit was about the owner not being trained to fly in bad weather. Bad or good, most light aircraft pilots do not fly at 100 feet in moonlight! He was given a VFR only completion certificate. That was not enough evidence for the jury to find him personally liable for his own demise obviously. Oh! Cirrus is making money, lets get a compensation lawyer and go for the jugular. Isn't that what happens nowadays?
This is as bad as the pilot who crashed his taildragger [Was it a J-3?] while flying solo from the placarded non solo front seat, had filmed himself [with the placard visible!], crashed, died and the manufacturing company had to pay millions in compensation to the family because the firm built an aeroplane that could be flown by an idiot who ignored all instructions about the solo flight seat position.
