FAA’s Big Stumble — While the Debate Rages, Students Don’t Get Trained

A most worrisome thing happened recently and it definitely fired up journalists in cyberspace.
FAA’s Orlando Flight Standards District Office took an organization called Warbird Adventures to court because they were charging students receiving instruction in a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk.
“That doesn’t affect me,” you might say. Don’t be too sure.
FAA’s regulatory enforcement action “has left CFIs confused and at risk from the greater future liability of ‘flying for hire,’ along with potential regulatory and medical consequences,” reported SAFE, a flight instructor group. “Needless to say, this case has cause a firestorm in the aviation media.”
Flying magazine reported, “[According to a] 1995 Fretwell

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