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"Sylvain" wrote in message
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However, it can boil down to how Jay phrased the thing as
far as I understand it; if Jay calls his friend, ask him
to please deliver the part, and offer to pay his expenses;
and then the friend decides to fly there rather than drive,
cycle, use a pogostick or public transportation, i.e., if
flying is incidental to the business of delivering the part,
then Jay is in the clear; if however Jay asks the friend
to specifically *fly* the part there, then he is potentially
in trouble....

I don't see how Jay is in trouble at all, either way (for this particular
aspect of the adventure, anyway). It's his friend that may or may not have
violated the FARs, not Jay. And that hinges on whether his friend was
compensated...how and when Jay offered compensation is irrelevant.

Whether compensation occurred is the only issue, and there's no way that his
friend can argue that flying was incidental to the business of transporting
the part. Not only would the friend have to already HAVE a business
transporting things, he would not successfully be able to argue that in the
course of transporting a part by airplane, the action of transporting that
part was incidental to the business.

Pete