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Old 8th Aug 2015, 16:07
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skyship007
 
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If the drivers are P2F, then the folks in the cabin will be P2S as well, although for only 10% of the 20K plus of the co-pilots.

I got arrested once (Post flight) along with the co-pilot near Newark, BUT I never got detained as the company accountant had enough cash (1K usd) to bail us both out after we signed the papers. Case dismissed 6 months later cos the part time summer Policeman did not contact the FAA first and he had no real evidence that we were guilty of disorderly conduct likely to endanger public safety (It's a general charge that can apply to many different activities).

We were just doing a spot or two of low flying for a film crew, but the chaps on patrol though we must be drunk (Bumpy sea breeze front).
It turned out to be a classic wrongful arrest case, which I knew although the co didn't help things by saying he had not touched a drop of anything in the last 8 hours (It was a 10 hour flight). The ground crew boss did not help either, as once we had shut the engines down, he got on the external emergency PA system and shouted, "Come out with your hands up"!
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