PPL question payment for flight

"Roger Tschanz" wrote in message
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But in my eyes you could also charge the passenger for no direct flight
costs such as annual flight member fees, hangar fees. The FAR is not
realy clear in that.

No, the FAR is perfectly clear. The ONLY expenses that may be shared are
"fuel, oil, airport expenditures, or rental fees". An aircraft owner may
not include non-direct operating expenses such as (but not limited to)
hangar, insurance, maintenance, engine reserve, etc. Any pilot may not
include non-direct operating expenses such as (but not limited to) charts,
headsets, training expenses, training manuals, etc.

The most important is that you do not flight for hire (earn money) or
compensation (that you fly without) costs!(compensating the costs)

The FAR is very clear about "the most important" thing. The FAA obviously
considers even reimbursement for passengers' pro-rata share of direct
operating expenses (such as fuel or rental costs) to be "compensation",
having made a specific exception allowing that type of compensation.

Pete