Actually, I believe if you look in the FAR's, you will find that it's not legal to charge for more than the pro-rata share for the flight (divide the cost by the total number of heads on board) unless you are a commercial pilot.
However, there are clauses with the EAA that allow the chapter to charge for flights to make money (fund raising), even when the pilots aren't commercial rated. We (our chapter) does this every year for rides around town at an annual event. Young Eagles would fall into this category too. Our club reimburses us for the fuel costs (and the club gets a discount from the airport on fuel). On a KR related note... Does anyone have any experience with a Hirth engine? Email me off list if you do. Hope this helps. Matt mel...@infinigral.com http://kr1.infinigral.com "Robert L. Stone" <rsto...@hot.rr.com> wrote: I have heard that it is legal for a pilot/aircraft owner to take people flying for pleasure and charge them for the fuel used for the flight only. To charge them beyond the cost of the fuel the pilot would have to have a commercial license. Any of you lawyers out there please respond with what ever the law is on this. There is an individual in our local EAA chapter who is willing to pay for the fuel used by EAA members using their aircraft to take children flying during "Young Eagle Rally's". I would also like to know if there is anything illegal about this. Bob Stone, Harker Heights, Tx rsto...@hot.rr.com _______________________________________ to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html ------------------------------------------------- Matthew Elder Orangeburg, SC http://www.infinigral.com/melder
