TxSrv wrote in
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Jose wrote:
The FAA has also ruled that they cannot make an
assumption that logged time is of any value.

Where? I'd like to see the case.


It was in the ruling issued to the warbird museum guys. The
issue was whether the motel bill paid for any private pilot who
ferries the warbirds to air shows is compensation. Yes it is, but
conceptually silly here. Like, “I’m not flying that B-17 unless
you pay for my motel!” The ruling also said, “We prefer not to
rule” on whether logging time is of any value, but not a problem,
it said, if you don’t log the time. Just about anyone would want
to log warbird time, so they left open the question were the
pilot to pay for the motel but log the time.

However, I don’t think there’s a single NTSB case where logging
time alone was compensatory in your own airplane. Conceptually,
the idea of a pax providing an opportunity to spend your own
money and calling it compensatory as to the mere opportunity I
think is absurd.

Fred F.

Absurd or not, that is the FAA's interpretation. The FAA gets to
decide how its rules are interpreted. There was one case, written up
several years ago in AOPA Pilot IIRC where the FAA changed their
interpretation of the regulations in the middle of an NTSB hearing. The
pilot lost under this new interpretation and appealed. The courts ruled
that the FAA could do this and the penalty would apply.

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