"Julian Scarfe" wrote in message
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I'm certainly not trolling. Can you cite a single case in which the FAA
has
deemed this the case?I've not seen one that didn't turn out to rely on a
different interpretation on closer inspection.

I trust AOPA's experts to review the cases for me, as well as other
resources. I don't have the specific examples in front of me, but it's
simply not in question that the FAA has considered flight time to be
"compensation". This is well-understood, and frequently reported.

For example, from http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pi...97/pc9710.html :

"The FAA interprets the term compensation in its broadest sense.
Compensation is not only the payment of money, but it is the receipt of
anything of value, and even the mere expectation of some benefit. To show
you how broad the FAA interpretation is, the agency, on several occasions,
has said that just building up flight time is compensation to the pilot
where the pilot does not pay the cost of operating the aircraft"

Like I said, this has been discussed so many times right here in this
newsgroup, it's hard to see how you can claim it's not the case unless
you're trolling. I know you're not (unless you've gone through some radical
personality change), but even so...it's still hard to believe.

Pete