"Robert M. Gary" wrote:

If he flys back on his own, it would be hard for him to not be PIC.
The FAA has busted people for being able to fly without paying before
(. They consider that compensation.

As I said before, the FAA has regarded flight time as compensation, but, so far, they
have only done so in cases in which the pilot was competing with professionals at a
job normally done for hire. The infamous case was a pilot who was flying a glider tow
plane to build time. So far, the FAA has never violated a pilot for the sort of
flight which NW_PILOT is considering.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.