Return-Path: Received: from [65.33.163.242] (account marv@lancaironline.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro WebUser 4.3c2) with HTTP id 751165 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 05:49:23 -0500 From: "Marvin Kaye" Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Lycoming's Future? To: lml X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro WebUser Interface v.4.3c2 Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 05:49:23 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Posted for "George Braly" : Most of the lawyers doing major aviation cases hold commercial or ATP certificates, several with A & P tickets, and many with engineering degrees. Many are ex- military and/or ex airline. Your description of them as having “limited knowledge or understanding” is characteristic of the near universal mis-understanding of what the real world of this type of litigation is like - - rather than what you imagine. I recently served as a 3rd arbiter in a complex aviation case. The three arbiters had, between them, a few tens of thousands of hours scattered among a few dozen complex aircraft types, a hundred combat missions, an engineering degree or two, 75 years of trying lawsuits to jurors, and several years of service on the bench as a judge. I don’t think the result was a lot different than it would have been in front of a jury. Regards, George """ Let's don't forget the litigating attorneys with limited knowledge or understanding orchestrating this symphony to its crescendo'd conclusion (Movement #1 anyway) Remaining parts to be continued in the form of appeals. --- more money for the liti-gators (not to be confused with their reptilian first cousins residing in the FL swamplands.). """