Jose wrote:

2: My father thinks I should be instrument rated, and offers to pay for
flying lessons and flying time so that I can get my rating. Nixed by
the FAA.

Not at all. The FAA believes that in this case, you are being paid to *learn*,
not being paid to fly. The case is exactly equivalent to a pilot who has to go
to a business meeting and gets reimbursed by his company for flying there. He's
getting paid to attend the meeting, not to fly.

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.