Renting an airplane? Need Expert FARS Advice??

Peter Duniho wrote:

I don't understand your comments.

Ok, then I've not phrased things well. In the case I mentioned, the key argument the
FAA advanced was that the towplane pilot was time-building; that is, he intended to
use the time flying the towplane to fulfill part of the requirements for his next
certificate. As such, the time was valuable and he would have had to pay for it had
he not volunteered to fly the towplane. That made it compensation. The fact that he
was competing with professionals for the towplane job got him busted but did not
otherwise figure in the case.

So, the real question here is whether or not NW_PILOT is intending to pursue another
rating or certificate and intends to use this time as part of the time necessary to
fulfill the requirements for that rating. If so, he could be busted for violation of
this FAR, and there is precedence for a guilty verdict. If not, there is no
precedence for a bust or guilty verdict (though I suppose he could be the first).

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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So, the real question here is whether or not NW_PILOT is intending to
pursue another
rating or certificate and intends to use this time as part of the time
necessary to
fulfill the requirements for that rating.

Hmmm...well, I see what you mean. But I'm not sure the FAA bothers to make
that distinction. That is, I believe that they say that logged time is
compensation, whether or not you ever intend to use it for another rating.

If you don't even log the time, then yes...I'd agree that even the FAA would
be hard-pressed to find a "compensation" facet to the operation.

Pete