Commercial rating?

The FAA lawyers make the rules. For instance, a brand new
private pilot may change a tire, but cannot work on the
brakes on the same wheel.



--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Jose" wrote in message
et...
| (from Peter Duniho)
| You keep forgetting the "commercial operation" component
of the issue.
| Without compensation, there is no holding out as a
commercial operation.
|
| Maybe (only maybe) so, but the FAA has rather creative
definitions of
| "compensation". I would never have considered recording
the flight in a
| logbook (a history of what actually happened)
"compensation", nor does
| it seem right that the fact that I can use this experience
(which
| actually happened) to demonstrate to the FAA that I am
worthy of an
| advanced rating to be "compensation" either.
|
| (from Jim Macklin)
| Any private pilot may offer, on a bulletin board a FREE
ride
| home. But if you are wanting to share the cost, several
| checks are required.
| 1. The pilot is going anyway, whether anybody else wants
to
| go.
| 2. The offer cannot be made as a public offering, but
only
| to friends.
| 3. Costs must be shared which means the pilot must pay
at
| least the pro rata share, your passengers cannot pay all
the
| costs.
|
| 1 and 2 are not enumerated in the FARs. They are made up
out of whole
| cloth. The FAA can do that and get away with it.
|
| And as for (1), "I am going to fly for three hours
=anyway=. Wanna come
| with me? I don't care where we go."
|
| Legal? Where in the FARs?
|
| Having made the offer, and having no takers, is it legal
to consider the
| weather, the condition of the aircraft, and the condition
of the pilot,
| and decide to not fly?
|
| Jose
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