At 11:29 AM 13/06/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Can't help with the tech stuff but I do have one piece of advice.
>
>Make sure your liability insurance coverage is appropriate. If you are named
>in a lawsuit, even a frivolous lawsuit, you want to have the backing of your
>insurance carrier to cover the legal expenses.
>
>Paul

There has never been a successful lawsuit involving experimental
aircraft  even in
the US. That doesn't mean you couldn't experience  some legal fee's. And
generally they tend to do a sue/serve first and sort them out later routine.
In other words you could get named but as soon as they find out your pockets
are just deep enough to hold small change they stop.

Plus he's in NZ which like us (Canucks) use a different standard for civil
suits
than the US. You have to prove actual damages not just pain and suffering.
Here if you sue and loose you get to pay everyone's legal fee's as well so
you have to be right. To do anything to him he'd have to be sued in NZ anyway.
assuming that he intended to make this a commercial product not just a one off
which he hasn't said yet.

Lawyers are like nukes. As long as you don't use them everything is fine,
as soon
as you do everything gets F'd up ;-]

Dave

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