Looking for private pilots (as safety pilots) within 100nm of Cincinnati

Jim Macklin wrote:
You are
offering to pay for lunch at a place of the others choosing,
etc and that makes it a "for pay operation requiring a
commercial certificate.

But surely this wouldn't qualify; the purchase of lunch is both
incidental and coincidental to the act of flying; neither the act of
flying nor the purchase of lunch must necessarily and/or inevitably
follow the other, obviating the comp/hire clause?

You could be nicked on the paying of rental/loggable time (good will
applies), but not the hamburgers!

TheSmokingGnu

TheSmokingGnu wrote:


You could be nicked on the paying of rental/loggable time (good will
applies), but not the hamburgers!


I wouldn't think you could be tagged for providing the plane. The safety
pilot would be a required crewmember for the operation, not a passenger. If
such were the case, then nobody could fly with a safety pilot in their own
plane (or a rented one) unless the safety pilot shared costs. I don't think
that's the case.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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