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I am often amazed by the way in which pilots are sometimes around offering things like Young Eagles flights (USA flight experience flights to children) or trips to their friends' offspring when they haver, maybe, a hundred hours.
I am a low time pilot, 100 approx. hours years ago and another coming up 100 recently but I would not dream of doing Young Eagles and, in fact, I limit my own children's exposure, partly caution and partly because I fly an amphibian and they have a particularly poor record locally.
On one hand I recognise that a PPL is properly qualified to fly passengers, family and friends and there should be no reason he may not. On the other hand I can see the frailty of my skill and experience.
When I worry about my own kids how could I risk other people's?
(I am not commenting on any particular offer by any particular pilot and I know perfectly well that many 50 hr pilots are more careful and respectful of the risk than cavalier high time chaps.)
I am a low time pilot, 100 approx. hours years ago and another coming up 100 recently but I would not dream of doing Young Eagles and, in fact, I limit my own children's exposure, partly caution and partly because I fly an amphibian and they have a particularly poor record locally.
On one hand I recognise that a PPL is properly qualified to fly passengers, family and friends and there should be no reason he may not. On the other hand I can see the frailty of my skill and experience.
When I worry about my own kids how could I risk other people's?
(I am not commenting on any particular offer by any particular pilot and I know perfectly well that many 50 hr pilots are more careful and respectful of the risk than cavalier high time chaps.)
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Yes, you will only ever be as good as the time / effort / dedication / currency / money you put into your flying, but I suppose the regs have to be drafted according to some objective criteria.
Yesterday I met a multi thousand hour pilot who cannot read TAFs and METARs. He never looks at them. Obviously he never looks at notams. He flies a homebuilt and has had a PPL for many years.
There are all kinds out there.
I think the regs about money passing along are silly. They should prevent the pilot or his employer making a profit, that's all. As drafted, the CAA has had to publish a mass of exemptions to make the system work. Even now, for example, you cannot do cost sharing in an N-reg but can in a G-reg.
Yesterday I met a multi thousand hour pilot who cannot read TAFs and METARs. He never looks at them. Obviously he never looks at notams. He flies a homebuilt and has had a PPL for many years.
There are all kinds out there.
I think the regs about money passing along are silly. They should prevent the pilot or his employer making a profit, that's all. As drafted, the CAA has had to publish a mass of exemptions to make the system work. Even now, for example, you cannot do cost sharing in an N-reg but can in a G-reg.
