flight training - 100nm night flight requirement

The other pilot flies the plane back during your visit of your cousin? How
do you get home? Why is that preferable to just flying your own
cross-country alone?


If i fly the cross-country alone, and keep the plane for my (three week) visit
with my cousins, the FBO or club doesn't get to use the plane. An FBO would
charge me UmGods of dollars to let the plane sit there. In a club situation I
get to keep the plane, but nobody gets to fly it. I come home with my cousin,
who drives me (she wanted to see my house and sit in my hot tub), and I'm on
the way to her folk festival that weekend.


And how does that other pilot get back to HIS home
base (he didn't come with you, since your cross-country needs to be made
solo).


The other pilot is flying the plane back to his home base. He was already up
here, having dropped his son off at College, and leaving him the family station
wagon.

Or, Fred (who wants the plane to visit HIS cousin for two weeks down in
Florida) arranges to meet me at my distant airport after his half of a $100
hamburger, which he flew with a third pilot who happens to like the sushi
restaurant in town. He takes my plane and goes to Florida, I don't have to pay
daily minima,
Fred brings the airplane back to its home base on his nickel, and he's happy
because otherwise he'd have to take a commercial plane to Florida, and submit
to the TSA.

We're a little off the track here, and I admit that it's an uncommon scenario.
But the regs don't say the flight has to be a common scenario.

Oh, wait a minute, this nonsense about "common purpose" for taking passengers
sort of goes against "uncommon scenaria", doesn't it.

Jose


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