Passengers while instructing
I remember that recently (within the last few months) one of the many circulars I got through the post told me that the CAA had clarified the position regarding passengers being carried on training flights.
The circular went in the bin and I now can't find any reference. I've an idea that the circular was a trainingcom but the memory's never been much good.
My current employer has a policy of allowing any passengers on trial lesson flights and, for other training flights only if the passenger is a student pilot at a similar stage of training to the student in the front. They believe that it would be illegal to carry passengers outside of these circumstances.
I know full well that there's nothing in law preventing me carrying a passenger while instructing so long as they're not charged for it but it'd be useful to have some formal clarification of this to point my employer too.
Can anyone remember point me to the reference? I'm sure I didn't imagine it.