Water temperature is the main factor in whether a body will come to the surface.

Six boys in 1995 stole a couple boats for a joyride in Lake Ontario and have never been found.

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/5...-in-pickering/

Surely a record of someone's bank account should show who paid what to whom, in an electronically leaky and intrusive society like ours.

Ant T : Ok my bad regarding FAA, obviously 2 different sets of definitions , did not know . I will correct my earlier post . But the quote that started this discussion was taken from EASA regulations on sharing .
The EASA definition of "Complex aircraft" in their regulations is the following :

As ever with PPRuNe, there is a previous thread on the subject, in this case debating the (various) meanings of "complex single", both in the previous generally-accepted sense of "variable-pitch prop, retractable gear, etc" (still a valid distinction in the CPL training/testing world) and with reference to EASA's somewhat unhelpful hijacking of the term to mean something completely different :O:

https://www.pprune.org/flying-instru...rformance.html

From that thread:

Is it mandatory to write in all the hours?

The speculation is the delay was pressumably that Sala hadn't arrived. The question could be how much was Ibbotson being kept in the dark over the prior arrangements?
*IF* the previous text messages between McKay and Sala prior to the outbound flight from Cardiff are indeed true, then Sala was expecting to return in the evening, not in the morning, so why did Ibbotson file the flight plan for the morning.....? Possibly deliberately misled over the arrangements, given the way this thing seems to have been arranged, but then again, we'll probably never know for sure.

I do not agree. By definition he made this flight in contravention of the system. Most people manage to build their hours without breaking the law. There are always unprofessional types who operate in a culture of non-compliance where they think they can get away with it. We are seeing the consequences of that here.

Today's article in The Times referred to by Runway30 is very interesting . What can we make of this sentence ?

"He shows me a sonar image of a cross shape on the sea bed. “Shipwrecks don’t do that — it was the cross of the fuselage and wings.".

....Would that indicate the speed of the aircraft was fairly low when it came into contact with the water?

This is why I said "I don't in any way condone his actions of deciding to fly that evening I can sort of understand why"
However I was unaware of his age, it's certainly a bit late in life to pursue a CPL/ATPL which begs the question what was he doing there if it was not for some sort of reward, financial or otherwise ?
Everything in this industry is black and white, either you fly or you don't, it's clearly written in the regulations, MEL, SRM etc.
But as you say, there are always some who will bend/break the rules and think they will get away with it, unfortunately this just leads to more legislation that we who abide by the system have to follow.

Interesting. What offence of Police interest would that be, gentlemen?

I suspect the police are investigating whether an offence may have been committed.

There seems to be some confusion about the meaning of "endorsement". In FAA parlance, a pilot may hold a license with commercial privileges and that license may including an "instrument airplane" rating. The terms "commercial endorsement" and "instrument endorsement" have, to the best of my knowledge, no meaning in the context of an FAA issued pilot license. "Night endorsement" does have meaning and is applicable to a student pilot who has been authorized for solo night flight.

A pilot who has received training for complex (as defined by FAA) aircraft earns no additional rating and there is no change to the pilot's license. The training, and approval, is documented in the pilot's log book by the instructor who gave the training. The log entry is an "endorsement".

Not suggesting that this flight was anything to do with cost-sharing, but having done some searching on the internet today I came up with 13 websites offering to fly you anywhere. None of them were AOC holders. This is just one example.... https://www.flissair.com/book-online...e8y8gK-qviQLCQ

Add to these all the Facebook pages - I'm absolutely shocked. Must be time for a change in the law..

I'm wondering if the owner of the Navajo knows it appears on a site like that? I have to admit that is quite something to see Flissair's website. I cannot imagine they'd be busy but the point is that they shouldn't be there at all. I certainly wouldn't want to fly with someone I didn't know. It's a shocker!