The cost sharing - reimbursment - flight for hire mess

"Roger Long" om wrote in
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b) All persons on the flight, including the pilot, pay an
equal
share.

Surely the pilot should be allowed to pay more than his or her share.
Similarly, any passenger should be allowed to pay less than his or her
share.

d) The member's undertaking of the flight must not be, or be
represented to be,
contingent on the participation or cost sharing of the
other passengers.

I don't see why that restriction is necessary. If the pilot pays a pro rata
share and the trip has a legitimate common purpose, the regs don't prohibit
a contingency on cost sharing.

25. Members who reposition the aircraft for club purposes such as
maintenance or to
transport persons who will perform maintenance may record the time
as
"Club
Time" on the time sheets with the advance approval of the
Maintenance
Officer and
will not be charged for the flight time. Members who accept Club
Time do so with
the understanding that this time will not be entered in their
logbooks.

That strikes me as illegal for private pilots. Undertaking a ferry flight
and being given free flight time is completely equivalent to paying the
normal rate for the flight time, and then being compensated by the same
amount in exchange for the service provided (which is surely illegal for a
private pilot, whether or not any time is logged).

--Gary