tc1917(at)bellsouth.net
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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:05 am Post subject: sign off forms |
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I will add my two cents here. We have a nice 60 acre air field here,
registered in the State of Alabama Aeronautical Safety Board, and we use a
sign-off sheet. If they are keeping an aircraft here, they sign off stating
responsibilities of us and them. That is good and proper. They also sign
off for the privilage of USING the aircraft on and off our field stating
THEY are responsible for EVERYTHING. If we take someone for a ride, there
is another form releasing us from the lawsuit side of responsibility. These
forms are fashioned after some that circulated back in the 80s and early 90s
during the USUA haydays. An attorney in California I believe, stated that
you CANNOT SIGN AWAY YOUR PERSONAL LIBILITY, actual damage to your body.
You CAN however limit it very much to damages with the sign off sheet. I
understand that if you FILM a person reading and/or signing the sheet, it
carries a lot of weight in them assuming the dangers, etc, and to make it
even more viable, have them (which we do in the case of hangering planes and
flying from our land) get it notorized. That way they cannot say they didnt
read it or understand it. The attorney also stated that passengers on an
ultralight were viewed by jurors the same as passengers on motorcycles,
'they are nuts and accept the conditions and dangers.' I hope this helps.
If anyone wishes to have a copy of what we use here, I will send it to them.
Hope this helps with that worry. You can limit your liability to actual
damages only and not to penalties. That really helps if you have homeowners
policies. Oh, yeah, our insurance carrier knows of our activities and has a
copy of what we use and is happy with it. Ted Cowan, Alabama, Slingshot.
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