Nobody would argue that a flying instructor owes their student a duty of care. What is less clear however is the standard of that care. That very issue came up in the recent case of Ripper v Gobel Avi...

For my entire flying ‘career’ (as it were) I have kept only one logbook. I bought my logbook in 1990, when CASA was the Civil Aviation Authority. At the time of writing this post I have flown just on ...