Originally Posted by
ianf100
The AAIB report confirms that the pilot held an FAA licence, so flight in an N registered aircraft across an international border was Ok, and the FAA doesn’t prohibit cost sharing flights. The only questions are whether the pilot’s licence and ratings were valid and how much of the cost was he planning to pay? If at least half then it’s within the FAA regulations.
That points to one thing I find surprising. The electronic FAA IACRA system is a rather strict system to keep records of issuance, initial activation and all check rides for licenses. I wonder why they did not put the investigation results on the US history in the report, as they must have the data by now. We know from the database a FAA piggyback 61.75 license was issued, but when was it first activated by an initial flight review - mandatory to render the license valid, and what comments show the records of subsequent BFR check rides - mandatory to keep the license valid? If there would be surprisingly no entries in the database, the 61.75 would have never been enabled for flying.