Flight instructor or PIC responsibility?
Can any of you chaps quote or advise the JAR regulation stating the legal responsibilities of the PIC or instructor to a student for an aircraft under his/her command? For example: a student is charged 200 pounds per hour for flight training. The instructor of this student elects to make takeoffs and landings at an airport which charges a fee of 300 pounds for every circuit. Obviously, the student was unaware of this charge ( because he is a student) but, never-the-less receives a billing in the mail for the use of the airspace in addition to his stipulated 200 pounds per hour training fee. Obviously, someone is responsible for the circuit fee, or the fee for the use of the airspace. However, since the student had no previous knowledge of this cost, nor was he informed of it, can he be held responsible for its payment? Or, was it a cock-up by the instructor and itn should have been his responsibility for doing the correct homework pryor to the flight; ascertaining the potential costs and thus informing his student? I would have thought that a fixed training price per hour should include any and all costs including fuel, aircraft, instructor fees, landing fees, etc. Any comments would be most appreciated from the professional instructors or training captains out there.
Last edited by eggplantwalking; 10th June 2003 at 06:35.