It might also be a safeguard to add a note to your Gendec that you do not know one or more of the PAX cannot be responsible for checking their bags and inviting special attention? Small things like that can be a diamond in your defence if anything should happen?
With somewhere like a busy GA airfield abroad this situation could also happen with decent law abiding people you know well
What is there to stop someone flying into such an airfield off an internal flight in France maybe, parking alongside you? Waiting for you and your friends to go and get a coffee? Transferring drugs into your aircraft under the baggage carpets? Waiting till you clear customs and fly to your destination back in the UK and then days later catching a schedule flight to the UK to your sleepy airfield and retrieving those drugs ?
What would you do if on landing the aircraft was checked and those drugs found? The finger would point at you and your friends even though you knew them well and they were upstanding citizens. How many pilots lock their aircraft on the Apron in such airfields? Not many.
I even heard of one pilot who was offered a cheap re leather of his seats which were duly fitted containing XYZ (not drugs) luckily he became suspicious before a continental flight
So its not just PAX you don't know you need to be aware of
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 10th Nov 2015 at 11:46.