So free flying equals valuable consideration, does it? Carried to its logical confusion this means....
1) A school reduces its prices if a PPL(H) student pays for 10 hours in advance - this is quite common. Isn't the school offering partially free flying?
2) a school offers lower prices for mid-week self fly hire. Free flying, even if only for a few minutes?
3) One school is cheaper than all the others. Free flying?
4) A PPL is asked to just fly a helicopter over to the pumps to pick up some fuel. He can't; it would be free flying.
5) Hmmm.....would going abroad to fly become illegal, I wonder, since it saves money and therefore some of the flying becomes effectively free?
Etc etc etc.
Mad? Of course.
I'm beginning to understand why Flying Lawyer has the good sense to lie low and stay out of this one.
