ORIGINAL: combatpigg
How and when planes are test flown is up to rule 4.
Anyone who has the time to post here, watch TV, pet the dog, etc., but claims to not have the time to test fly isn't fooling anyone. I never buy that excuse, it's always BS. There is always time for what you think is important.
I think AMA would see it your way, CP, rather than the way the individual that decreed "If some CD chooses not to enforce it that is his problem." A CD is an agent of AMA, and as such if he makes a decision that brings a problem upon himself (as in liability), he also brings the problem to AMA.
A reasonable case has been made for allowing maidens at sanctioned event venues, outside of event hours. If AMA powers-that-be agree, and there appears to have been precedent at some jet events, a rule change or least explicit and documented clarification of policy would be in order.
Abel