"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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I agree with your views with respect to 61.113, but I don't think that
particular case is the best example of how the pilot himself receives what
the FAA considers "compensation" even if he isn't paid in cash. There's
too
many other distracting factors (after all, Julian apparently failed to
notice that, in addition to the other "commercial operation" issues, the
NTSB found that the pilot *did* receive compensation himself; I think
that's
because the other issues distracted him from that one).

They didn't find that he received compensation in the form of anything as
intangible as you would like it to be. They found that it "strained
credulity" that he didn't expect to get paid. In other words, they simply
didn't believe that there was no compensation, even though they couldn't
find the check stubs.

Julian