
http://yrp.ca/docs/press_releases/%5B20 ... 20HILL.pdf
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Actually, without getting into personal detailsphotofly wrote:Fascinating to see where that goes. Police officers are not famous for their expertise in deciding what constitutes safe flying.
Without commenting on the specific case, I am not reassured. A pilot who got a CPL 15 years ago but is now working as a policeman is exactly the kind of person with the subject interest and authority to do a lot of damage without necessarily having the judgement to exercise that authority wisely.Jack Klumpus wrote:Actually, without getting into personal detailsphotofly wrote:Fascinating to see where that goes. Police officers are not famous for their expertise in deciding what constitutes safe flying.the officer who charged him has been a licensed commercial pilot for over 15 years
The plane was rented from a flying club. Most flying clubs only have 172's or 150's.AirFrame wrote:In a 172? Isn't that like taking your mom's Pontiac Acadian out and cruising the strip?
Future rentals might be an issue.checkremarks wrote:The plane was rented from a flying club. Most flying clubs only have 172's or 150's.AirFrame wrote:In a 172? Isn't that like taking your mom's Pontiac Acadian out and cruising the strip?
+1 if he had done that in a twin like a seminole or seneca or even a twin comanche
I don't know about hammering him, but buddy needs to seriously think about the dumbassedness of his flying in that particular instance for a while before he gets to touch the face of god again..Rookie50 wrote:Hammer the dude. There's no place for that whatsoever.
Your post is filled with per-judged and skewed scenarios, that I will not even touch. Why did you assume so many things? You always think this way?photofly wrote:Without commenting on the specific case, I am not reassured. A pilot who got a CPL 15 years ago but is now working as a policeman is exactly the kind of person with the subject interest and authority to do a lot of damage without necessarily having the judgement to exercise that authority wisely.Jack Klumpus wrote:Actually, without getting into personal detailsphotofly wrote:Fascinating to see where that goes. Police officers are not famous for their expertise in deciding what constitutes safe flying.the officer who charged him has been a licensed commercial pilot for over 15 years
If he weren't a policeman would his piloting experience be sufficient for the court to accept him as an expert witness?
Why isn't this something a TC inspector is dealing with? Hopefully not because the policeman assured his Sargeant that "he knows a lot about planes." And also hopefully not just because the pilot made the local plod look like a bunch of boobs for closing roads.
Doesn't smell right. The only reference I can find to a charge of Dangerous Operation (which carries a max penalty of 5 years in prison) is against a pilot who actually killed someone on the ground. This stupid low-level stuff falls a long way short, and should be in TC's hands.
I was unaware that the York Regional Police was the enforcing agency of the CARs.Jack Klumpus wrote:CARs 602.1 & 602.12
Aren't those taught at the P-star level?
What made you think they were?erics2b wrote:I was unaware that the York Regional Police was the enforcing agency of the CARs.Jack Klumpus wrote:CARs 602.1 & 602.12
Aren't those taught at the P-star level?
The expert CPL policeman? Too funny! Why the hate and immiturity? Did a cop sleep with your gf or something?photofly wrote:then one hopes that the expert CPL-policeman knows the difference between the two better than whoever drafted the release.
Or, if, what if, which, when, where.....photofly wrote:And which are these "roadways" that York Regional Police allegedly closed? It wasn't anything usefully big like the 407 or the 404, or we'd have heard about that on the evening news. Or was it, as the Toronto Star is reporting, that "runways" were closed? Which runways? Buttonville? If the press release intended to say "runways" and not "roadways" then one hopes that the expert CPL-policeman knows the difference between the two better than whoever drafted the release.
Compare the Star article as published, and the press release, and you'll have the answer to your own question.Jack Klumpus wrote:
The York regional police had its press release which did not mention any runway.
Let me ask you, for educational purposes; do you think police officers write the articles for the Toronto star?
Dangerous Operation is a serious criminal offence; it gets up to 5 years jail time.PilotDAR wrote:]I have great confidence that any police officer who is, or has been a pilot, and even those officers with only a passing awareness of aviation could make a goo case for prosecution on this one