The Jury's Still Out?, Thank you for the suggestions. The pilot has to, by law as per FAA regulations, keep a log. In the log he has to keep records of the flight time and duty time. The duty time is the non flght time on the job. This pilot also keeps a journal with breif notes on the days activities. We presented his pilot logs to the judge along with cell phone records to backup the calls made to the company on this matter. At my phone hearing the judge asked the Director of Maintenance if he made these statements to the Forest Service, he admitted making these statments. The judge even scolded him about the wisdom of making these statements. I have tried to contact our rappel crew with no luck. I believe they want to stay out. Government employees are afraid of thier own shadows. They are mainly college kids making some money during the summer to help pay for tuition. Basicly they scatter when the fire season is over. I don't know if it is worth the $2,000.00 owed to me by unemplotment to contact a lawyer. Again, thank you for your time to respond. My husband and I are still within our second appeal date. We are trying to figure out what more to add to our proof of the events that occurred. Seeing the proof we had presented didn't make any difference.

Kim