I guess the safe thing would be to insure that if you're flying in a
friend's plane that he has a higher rating than you..G
An interesting thing happened at my home field S-44 last week. A chap a few
hangers up from me took out his pristine Luscombe out for some local flying.
A CFI from the local FBO comment he had no conventional gear time and was
invited to go along for a ride.

When landing to the South, there are some very tall trees which necessitates
a displaced threshold of 250 feet. Well coming down final, the pilot was too
low and the CFI passenger mentioned this a couple of times. He did not take
over the controls. The Luscombe was so low that you can see scrape marks on
the bottom of the cowl where he got the fence. The plane of course flipped &
was totally destroyed. The owner had some serious lacerations, the CFI
passenger scrapes and bruises.

So instead of an interesting ride, the CFI passenger might be facing a
career move.

Cheers:

Paul
NC2273H