On Nov 13, 6:54 pm, Helen wrote:

I would like to provide some clarification to your post.
The FAA can interpret you logging the flight time as compensation and as
such the CFI is correct.

The question here is Would they. You are dealing with many different
FISDO's and they will all have a different interpritaion on this. I
doubt this would hold up in court. There are also many many ways to
get around this. With this being on Usnet I am sue we will read
several of the ways


I've actually had a long chat with AOPA on
this subject.

Dont believe what you hear from AOPA! I have known people who have
recieved so much bad advise over the years it makes me sad. Judging
from the responses I have heard from AOPA, you have alot of marginally
qualified people over there who are just regurging reference material
they dont understand.



I manage a light sport flight school and most of my staff
are age 60+ and don't carry medicals. They'd need a second class one to
ferry a plane if we paid them for their time. If they volunteer their
time though, it gets gray. AOPA is pretty certain though we're OK
letting them ferry planes as volunteers though just for the simple fact
that the FAA would have a hard time making a case that a 68 year old
40,000 hour pilot, really considered the .5 of hobbs time as
compensation he could use for his up and coming career.


My hat is off to you for running a flight school ! We could certainly
use more people like you but you should not try to be a lawyer. I
think Paul would be blowin it if he didnt take this flight.
KFB