ORIGINAL: jdoyle
I am fairly new at this flying and at our club we had a bad accident where a plane flew into a new truck and the plane was not his but he was testing it for another person,The AMA rules say that the person holding the transmitter is responsible for the accident.
What is the rule if you are on a buddy box is the instructor or the student responsible.
This has probably been discused before but I'm new and would like to know.
Thanks Jim
Since, in this crazy tort country of ours mostly controlled by x!#&(*) liberal courts, I do not claim to be either judge or jury so I only state my opinion. My opinion results from 41 years of professional aviation where the Pilot-in-Command is always responsible for any problem, incident, and/or accident. In RC the Instructor on the primary transmitter is responsible for anything that happens.
As a RC pilot, I firmly believe in the same call. There are times when the pilot cannot exercise any control when things go bad in the system, yet the pilot is still responsible.