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A complete and competent study!
Updated and expanded, this best selling text provides a succinct foundation to a complex field of law. Aviation managers, pilots, mechanics, aircraft owners, air traffic controllers, air safety investigators and other involved in aviation gain the basic legal knowledge and perspective to identify and avoid common legal pitfalls, to recognize when it is necessary to call a lawyer, and to understand how the legal system works in relation to aviation.
| ** | Chapters |
| 1 | Regulatory Agencies and International Organizations |
| 2 | FAA Enforcement |
| 3 | Aviation Medical Cases |
| 4 | Basic Principles of Liability |
| 5 | Organizing the Business to Limit Liability |
| 6 | Aviation Insurance |
| 7 | Exculpatory Contracts |
| 8 | Airline Liability |
| 9 | Government Liability |
| 10 | Accident Notification, Reporting, and Investigation |
| 11 | Buying and Selling Aircraft |
| 12 | Aircraft Leasing and Fractional Ownership |
| 13 | Airports and Terminal Airspace |
| 14 | En Route Airspace |
| 15 | Labor and Employment Law, Generally |
| 16 | Airline Labor Law |
Practical Aviation Law's conversational tone, understandable language and frequent examples make it an engaging and readable book. Hamilton includes sections on liability, contracts, buying, selling, and leasing aircraft and highlights changes that have occurred in statutory and regulatory law since the publication of previous editions.
About the Author
Dr. J. Scott Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of Management for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, serving as Faculty Chair for the Sky Harbor Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He previously served as chief operating officer of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), after serving as the national organization's general counsel. CAP owns and operates the world's largest fleet of single engine piston powered aircraft, some 560, plus a few dozen gliders and hot air balloons. He is an experienced pilot (Private Pilot with airplane, single engine, land & sea, instrument airplane, advanced & instrument ground instructor ratings, and about 1,700 hours flight time) who has owned several aircraft. He is also an experienced skydiver (with 2,500 jumps) who served as a combat demolition specialist and HALO instructor in Army Special Forces.
Dr. Hamilton founded a law firm specializing in aviation law in Colorado, where he practiced law for 25 years and served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Denver, and as an Adjunct Instructor for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and for the Aerospace Science Department at Metropolitan State College of Denver, then served as Senior Assistant Attorney General in Wyoming.
Hard Cover
352 pages, Indexed
Publisher
Blackwell (2005)
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