Presumably she plead guilty to a lessor charge. I don’t honestly know what sort of crime might disqualify one from having a pilot’s license IRL, but I would guess a felony conviction for instance would not be a good thing to have on your record.
AFAIK no conviction would mean cancelation of a pilot license, but pretty much any crime can mean you can’t hold a job requiring access to restricted areas.
And airport airside access (which you’d need) would definitely qualify as such.
Heck, you can’t even have a criminal record for most desk jobs these days, I’ve needed to submit to criminal background checks for most every job I’ve done in the last decade.
Got to wonder where she is though, that’s one old piece of military hardware.
Museum grade 🙂
Unless it’s a flying museum she’s working, she’s definitely not in any western country.
She was in a serious car accident and considered at fault. She tested positive for marijuana, but it’s difficult to say if she was actually under the influence at the time, since this drug shows up in tests weeks later. She was nonetheless charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance. She was worried that this would be considered having a “substance abuse” problem, which she could lose her license for. So when she was offered plea deal for reckless driving—dropping the drug related charge—she took it, even though she believes it was just an ordinary accident and not criminal even if it was her fault.
And uh sure, she does air shows for an aviation museum, yeah that’s the ticket.
I have always gone with the assumption that for whatever reason, and there are a number of possibilities, the statutes allow the conviction to be expunged (or at least effectively expunged, like a minor’s conviction) — at least in the state I am using.
This would mean that once her sentence is over, she would be able to regain the status of ‘never convicted’ as far as her normal life and any legal forms are concerned.
Unless I’m not understanding how things work around here, you still have the conviction. You just aren’t doing time in prison for it.
Presumably she plead guilty to a lessor charge. I don’t honestly know what sort of crime might disqualify one from having a pilot’s license IRL, but I would guess a felony conviction for instance would not be a good thing to have on your record.
AFAIK no conviction would mean cancelation of a pilot license, but pretty much any crime can mean you can’t hold a job requiring access to restricted areas.
And airport airside access (which you’d need) would definitely qualify as such.
Heck, you can’t even have a criminal record for most desk jobs these days, I’ve needed to submit to criminal background checks for most every job I’ve done in the last decade.
Got to wonder where she is though, that’s one old piece of military hardware.
Museum grade 🙂
Unless it’s a flying museum she’s working, she’s definitely not in any western country.
OK, here’s the best story I can come up with.
She was in a serious car accident and considered at fault. She tested positive for marijuana, but it’s difficult to say if she was actually under the influence at the time, since this drug shows up in tests weeks later. She was nonetheless charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance. She was worried that this would be considered having a “substance abuse” problem, which she could lose her license for. So when she was offered plea deal for reckless driving—dropping the drug related charge—she took it, even though she believes it was just an ordinary accident and not criminal even if it was her fault.
And uh sure, she does air shows for an aviation museum, yeah that’s the ticket.
I have always gone with the assumption that for whatever reason, and there are a number of possibilities, the statutes allow the conviction to be expunged (or at least effectively expunged, like a minor’s conviction) — at least in the state I am using.
This would mean that once her sentence is over, she would be able to regain the status of ‘never convicted’ as far as her normal life and any legal forms are concerned.