I decided to get our local FSDO's take on the flight compensation issue
since so many of these things vary in interpretation from district to
district.

I spoke with someone who said, in response to some of the points kicked
around in the Cost sharing - reimbursement - flight for hire mess thread
below, "That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. Where did you get
that?' He then took me through the regulations and pointed out that it
doesn't say that stuff anywhere.

About 20 minutes later, he called back and said he'd done some research and
talked to some other people and I was right. However, he said they thinks
Washington is being silly and assured me that they would never violate
anyone on things like logging unpaid time. They have much more important
things to do.

His advice: Go fly, have fun, don't worry, follow the regs as written.

I guess most of you guys who responded similarly were right.

These technicalities only appear to be pulled out when the find someone
making a while mini industry out of bending a regulation for significant
gain.

Thanks guys, I feel a lot better and we'll probably drop the flight rule
thing.

--
Roger Long