"Michael" wrote in message
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Do you have any documentation of that story?

Heard around the campfire from a usually reliable source. ...

I'm curious how an FAA
inspector would have been able to establish that the pilot had taken a
tax
deduction.

AFAIK it was simply an assumption - and virtually guaranteed to be
correct, since virtually every pilot does take the deduction.

Hm, so according to the campfire tale, the inspector tried to press a case
that he could only argue for by saying that he *assumed* the pilot had
committed the alleged violation, since virtually every charity-flight pilot
does so? I guess I'm not inclined to worry about the prospect of having to
defend against a case like that.

I recall that the story did come out on the internet, minus names (is
there such a thing as non-rumor on the internet?)

Sure--tons of scholarly material, serious journalism, repositories of
official documents...

I looked at the link you provided,
and it gave a pilot's name supposedly associated with the inquiry -
Texas-based, but part of Angel Flight, not AirLifeLine.

True, the LifeLine site mentions a Texas Angel Flight pilot who made an
inquiry to the FAA--but it doesn't mention any inquiry by the FAA into any
alleged regulatory violation by the pilot.

Not saying it couldn't have happened though--just wondering about the
details.

--Gary