Netters and Bob Stone It is NOT legal to charge someone for ALL costs related to a flight or get paid to fly unless you have a commercial pilot's license. The exceptions are clearly listed in FAR part 61.113 a,b,c. 61.113 a clearly states that no private pilot may act as PIC for compensation or for hire. Paragraph b states some of the exceptions if the flight is incidental to the pay, that is the pay would happen anyway regardless of the method of travel, ie: you choose to fly you and your boss instead of driving to a meeting. Paragraph c outlines the legal exceptions along with d and clearly states again that a private pilot MUST pay his pro-rata share of the costs of a flight, provided those costs only involve rental, fuel, airport costs, and oil. Compensation is defined as any other method of re-imbursement or exchange for service other than monetary to the person in exchange for those services, ie: paying for hotel room, dinner, car rental etc...
91.319 a clearly states that no aircraft with an Experimental Airworthiness Certificate may be operated for hire. This means you cannot charge for use of your KR anyway, even if you HAVE a commercial ticket as I do. Recent additions to the regs have allowed for CFIs who have the required number of hours to teach in the aircraft, that is to be rated, signed off (tailwheel in my case since ours is conventional ) and have at least the 5 hours of experience required by the Regs can give transition training to ALREADY rated pilots, not primary training. The hourly limit is subjective to the Inspector, but has been suggested that it is limited to a total of 10 hours flight time. In your example you must pay your half of the fuel when you reach the destination, even if he offers to do so. It would be a shame for an Inspector to witness this, and make a fun flight turn into a long car ride home because of a violation. The FAA is very sensitive about this. Colin & Bev Rainey KR2(td) N96TA Sanford, FL [email protected] http://kr-builder.org/Colin/index.html
