If you "hire" a private pilot to be your safety pilot, he
needs to have a commercial pilot certificate. You are
offering to pay for lunch at a place of the others choosing,
etc and that makes it a "for pay operation requiring a
commercial certificate. As your employee, neither you nor
he/she needs to have a 135 certificate even though you are
planning trips.

From the stand point of valuable instrument time, you need a
pilot with an active instrument rating who can give useful
advice and see errors you might make.
A CFII is cheap compared to the cost of wasted aircraft
hours.

Congratulations on the new certificate.

--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P
8,000 hours, Gold Seal CFII/SMELI


"Alex P." wrote in message
ps.com...
| Hello everyone,
|
| Long time lurker, first time poster (I always wanted to
say this )
|
| Anyway, I have just acquired my private pilot license and
I'm en route
| to the intrument ticket. Since as you know, this is the
time where a
| second private pilot is what helps best to collect the
needed
| instrument time, I was wondering if there's anyone out
there that has
| at least a basic license and would be willing to fly with
me
| Cincinnati would be best, but anything within 1hr flight
time will
| work too.
|
| - I pay for rental, you can pick the place where you'd
like to have
| lunch or dinner
| - I buy food
| - I will be more than happy to return the favor and be
your safety
| pilot if you're looking for IFR hours.
|
| If you're interested - respond to this post, or send me a
private
| message and we'll work out the logistics.
|
| Cheers and safe skies,
| Alex
|
| PS. Sorry for cross-posting but it can be a win-win so
hopefully
| doesn't qualify as spam
|