First of all, the well known FAA enforcement cases where people put together flight programs to build hours, they sold shares, even provided chartered aircraft for gas and oil, basicaly cost...were stretches. And not considered the rule. I remember in the 80s when twin time was gold, and people concocted all sorts of schemes to build that 300 hours of twin time for some commuter like Horizon. Of course Horizon knew it was crap...the prospective pilot said he burned up 300 hours at his own expense, not in charter, or as a CFII, but his own plane...they hired him anyway...he was benefiting by building hours and offsetting tens of thousands of dollars of twin time rental, by putting other people in the plane, logging the time, paying his gas and oil, and everyone was doing it.
Using your analogy, anyone with a PPL and a plane asked by someone to take them up for fun, see what flying is like, and then is bought lunch...is considered a criminal by the FAA...that the PPL is running a charter outfit, and he is benefiting by free lunches and building hours.. The cases that are prosecuted anymore are the psuedo charter guys...not time builders, as pretty much being the case these days, that if the airlines don't care enough to check the quality and source of flight hours, the FAA doesn't seem to care either. The exception to this rule is when someone is turned in, complains, and or there is an accident. As far as active enforcement in checking Flight hours, the FAA out to lunch. As far as flying a corp plane and trying to figure out if this pilot is being compensated as a sales person or a pilot, is so much of a stretch that you won't find an example off it. Guppy, your just trying to scare the newbes.
Last edited by glawkshuter; 28th Aug 2008 at 19:56.