Before you ask the CAA questions you need to consider those questions carefully or you may get the wrong answer.
For example, if you own an aeroplane you may pay an instructor for teaching you on your own or your spouses privtate cat aeroplane. However, if the aeroplane is owned by a group of people then you may not pay the instructor.
The reasoning is this: Money may not change hands for the purpose of a private flight. If you are in a group, money changes hands within the group for the purposes of the flights in that aircraft, that is permitted in Art 130. If you own the aircraft yourself then the same dispensation may be granted once, to allow you to pay an instructor, but in the case of a group owned aircraft, money would then change hands twice which is not permitted. The one exception is that you can pay an instructor or examiner for a check flight or test required for licence revalidation.
If you receive instruction you can only log the flight as PUT (Dual) which does not really count towards anything.
[This message has been edited by Noggin (edited 23 March 2001).]