If the CFI rents your airplane and "hires out" to give
instruction he is doing the operation for hire as the
airplane operator.

If the CFI sends his students to you to rent the airplane
and he must be the only CFI available, then it is a shame
operation, fraud. The FAA will yank his ticket and you
could also find your certificate suspended or revoked.

But a business that rents airplanes does not have to do 100
inspections. If a flying club rents or makes available an
airplane for a student or higher pilot to rent and does not
restrict the choice of instructor who might be in the
airplane, then instruction given in an airplane rented and
controlled by the student, using an instructor not employed
by the club, does not require a 100 inspection. But if the
club controls who may fly and instruct, then the club must
do the 100 hour inspections.

If your friend sends a student pilot to you and you rent or
lease the airplane and you allow [insist ] that your friend
can't give the instruction unless he pays for the 100 hour
inspections, you should be safe from the FAA but not
necessarily the IRS or the insurance company.

Your friendly CFI can do more flying since he is getting his
airplane cheap from you. Ask your attorney who knows
business law and the FAA regulations about your legal
liability.



"Lou" wrote in message
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|
| On Nov 28, 10:24 pm, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
| You own the airplane and have hired a pilot/CFI. This
is
| not a "for hire "operation. However if you allow the
CFI to
| sell instruction to other people in your airplane you
need
| the 100 inspections.
|
| Also, renting an airplane to even a student pilot is not
a
| "for hire" operation and the airplane does not need the
100
| inspection.
|
| --
| James H. Macklin
| ATP,CFI,A&P
|
|
|
| Is this true? If I own an airplane and a friend who is a
CFI keeps
| borrowing my plane to instruct a third party for his
personal fee, the
| plane needs a hundred hour inspection? I'm new at this
game, but that
| doesn't sound right. My understanding is that if the plane
is a rental,
| it needs a hundred hour inspection. I am certain that the
flying club I
| belong to has hundred hour inspections only due to the
club rules not
| the FAA. The planes in my club are considered owned by
each member, not
| rented.
| Lou
|