I feel I am being vilified,so to clarify my position on all this and retrieve my character.
I do not charge my friends as I have had around 25 hours in a Chipmunk and Tiger Moth over the last two years completely free of charge from a friend.
Someone I met through my work and I don't know well has asked me if I would take him up, he offered to pay the full one hour hire charge.
In his case I told him I will share the cost,ie £62.50 each.
Lister