If you can't fly for free what are 200 hour people supposed to do?
Are we arguing here that it is OK to sweep the hangar and clean aeroplanes for free but not to fly for free?
Is it OK for a LAME to work as a engineer and fly for free to get hours?
What about doing other associated paid work for the owner and flying for free?
Problem with this whole issue that there is always someone who is willing to do it. So you can take the moral high ground and refuse to work for free or less than award, but you will be sitting on the sidelines watching someone else applying for good jobs because they did it for free or cheap.
Knew of a guy who had a very successful business and
PAID an owner to fly his plane in commercial ops...
