The legal liability of flight instructors is a legitimate concern that is continually raised. The question comes up because flight instructors arerngenerally aware that they could be sued, not only for something that happens during the flight instruction period, but also for something that happens afterward-something that somebody could say was caused by faulty flight instruction given earlier. The good news is that, so far, the threat to the individual flight instructor has been just that-arnthreat. In general, the actual liability imposed on individual flight instructors has not been significant.
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