Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!hp-kirk!mark From: mark@hp-kirk.UUCP Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Regulations Query - (nf) Message-ID: <1139@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jun-83 03:23:41 EDT Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.1139 Posted: Sat Jun 11 03:23:41 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jun-83 05:01:47 EDT Sender: netnews@hp-pcd.UUCP Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis OR Lines: 32 #N:hp-kirk:5500005:000:1868 hp-kirk!mark Jun 9 15:49:00 1983 Some pilots seem to believe that a private license requires the pilot to pay for at least an equal share of the flight costs. While I may be wrong in this, I believe the regulations only require that a private pilot share expenses, not necessarily pick up an equal share. A pilot who pays for any part of the flight (total profit must be negative) should satisfy the requirements in this regard. Another point of debate that I have brought up with the local FAA office is that with regards to safety pilots the regulations require only that the safety pilot be qualified to fly the plane (I don't have a copy of the FARs with me and can't remember the exact wording). In any case, I proposed that a student pilot who had soloed the plane in question and hence was qualified to fly the plane would qualify as a safety pilot. The rules did not seem to either confirm or deny this leaving the whole matter open to interpretation of whether the regulations meant able to fly at that moment which would then depend on whether the pilot-in-command would be considered a passenger and so forth. Intent of the regulation is not clear either since it is not intuitively obvious whether a student pilot would be a qualified safety pilot. It actually could even depend on whether the PIC were a CFI or not. For that matter, anyone can legally fly a plane when recieving instruction from a CFI, hence one might conclude that a CFI can fly under the hood with anyone acting as safety pilot. I suspect you would be unable to get away with this, but I am not sure it really violates the regulations. Is there anybody out there who can give the definitive answer on this (or even an interesting opinion). "Death" Rowe hp-pcd!hp-cvd!mark Corvallis, Oregon