"Jose" wrote in message
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You can split costs any way you like under certain circumstances (i.e. a
passenger rents a plane, and hires you to fly them for costs).

Even so, you would want to be careful about how you arranged that. The FAA
would (if they got wind of it) probably look closely at whether your
passenger regularly rented a plane and hired various pilots, or if you were
in the habit of flying for people who just happened to rent an airplane from
the same place every time.

Of course, "fortunately" the FBO is likely to be trying to avoid this sort
of thing as well. That is, they probably won't rent to someone without
their own pilot certificate, unless a pilot on their staff is flying the
airplane, under the usual Part 135 rules.

It is theoretically possible for a plain old Commercial pilot to be paid to
fly someone in an airplane they neither own, nor have a long-term lease for,
but I've never heard of it happening with any regularity in practice.

Pete