Doug wrote:

I hope the FAA understands these fine points, I'm sure I don't.

Just don't tell the FAA your friend's name.

George Patterson
Love, n.: A form of temporary insanity afflicting the young. It is curable
either by marriage or by removal of the afflicted from the circumstances
under which he incurred the condition. It is sometimes fatal, but more
often to the physician than to the patient.