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From: mark@hp-kirk.UUCP
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Subject: Regulations Query - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 11-Jun-83 03:23:41 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 11 03:23:41 1983
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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