alfaman
Please read what I have now written in three separate posts.
FTAD (and please excuse my use of caps, no offence is intended! THEY ARE FOR EMPHASIS ONLY)
I AM NOT SAYING THAT A GREY CHARTER IS AS SAFE AS A PROPERLY CHARTERED AND FLOWN AIRCRAFT
ALL I am saying is that a flight undertaken by ANY pilot is neither safer nor less safe PURELY AS A RESULT of whether the pilot is being paid or not.
It is the same aircraft, whether safe or unsafe, the same pilot, whether competent or not, with the same NON-CPL (i.e. PPL or PPL/IR) qualification, flying in the same bit of sky, in good weather or bad, at the same time and subject to the same ADM considerations as discussed in my earlier post.
In the one case the pilot is being paid (illegally!) and in the other he / she is not. That is the only difference.