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Flying for funds
Can you accept money for flying?
YOU’RE A PRIVATE pilot, and no doubt sometime soon a friend or business acquaintance will ask you to fly them somewhere, and they’ll sweeten the offer with cash or some other form of compensation. Can you do it? The answer to the question is “no.” However, let’s say your friend wanted to go to Boston for a meeting, but you were already planning to go for a sightseeing trip that same weekend. In this case, you are allowed to split fuel, oil, airport, and aircraft rental fees. That business flight could also happen, assuming you are attending the same meeting, and the flight is incidental to the business. If there’s any question, decline any flight involving money. The FAA is very strict with these rules. Break them and you’ll lose your certificate.

Study seeks clearer picture of GA airports
Funding could be affected in the future
AOPA AND OTHER industry groups are working with the FAA as it develops a new classification system for general aviation airports. The agency is conducting a year-long study that seeks new, expanded GA airport categories for use in a national integrated systems plan. The study will consider replacing the two current classifications—general aviation and reliever—with as many as five that would provide more definition of airport services and activities in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS). Airports included in the NPIAS are considered significant to national air transportation and therefore eligible for federal airport improvement grants. “Adopting additional classifications would parallel the method by which the

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FAA categorizes commercial-service airports,” said Greg Pecoraro, AOPA vice president of airports and state advocacy. A final report is expected to contain a complete and categorized list of almost 3,000 airports, and detailed descriptions of the new categories. That information also will appear in the 2012 NPIAS Report to Congress, to be published next fall. AOPA’s focus in discussing the study with the FAA has been to emphasize the importance of every kind of GA airport in the national airports system. Association staff told the FAA that it is important for the report’s final version of the classification system to make clear that each of these airports makes an important contribution to aviation and its home community.

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