"RK Henry" wrote in message
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What if it's your girlfriend and after dinner you're "rewarded" with
an intimate encounter? Would the FAA consider that compensation? Could
your girlfriend then be charged with prostitution?

More importantly, Does This Ever Happen?!

I've asked this type of question and heard lots of answers before, but what
still remains unanswered is, "Do they really even CARE about these trivial
little things?" Or, do those rules exist in case somebody -is- trying to
run an illegitimate black market air transport service?

Whoever got busted for taking their girlfriend for a dinner ride, a daughter
to college or friends to a football game? Personally, I refuse to NOT fly
because I -might- cross a boundary that the FAA -might- actually bother
enforcing.

I've got one life to spend flying and sharing the gift and hobby of flight.
I'm not going to sacrifice that because of what some bureaucrat MIGHT do.
Otherwise, if they pull my ticket, someday I will have at least flown. (It
is better to have flown and lost...) In exchange, for the safety and
respect of myself and my passengers, I do commit myself to medical currency,
aircraft proficiency and educated decision-making with regard to determining
whether to make a flight.


-c