I was told by the atlanta FSDO that if a fellow had a tailwheel endorsement and the CFI did not charge for compensation that,I a CFI,could let a pilot fly my aircraft RV7,without an LODA, to get insurance time since he is still the PIC. The problem exist is that you are still signing off a logbook and your still on the hook should he have a problem down the road.
This is the total sum, if us ?old CFI?s? doing any type of instruction unless you have a couple million dollar liability insurance policy which will run you about 1500.00 per year. 900 for a million. Were out on a limb.
Is it worth risking everything you have worked for just to do flight instruction which I love to do and with an aviation lawyer and even having my own LLC was told 99 percent chance nothing would ever happen but are you willing to spend 5-10 thousand defending yourself even if you win. I won fortunately,Beechcraft had me as an expert witness in a Baron Spin crash, 7 years after i gave him civilian transistion training from Military Licenses.
But I was only 29. Not 69 as I am now.
Almost wanted a new thread in this because there are so many of us old CFI?s
That can share a life long learning and help the young pilots or even older guys and gals that only have a couple hundred or thousand hours.
There is a method,legal,to get a fellow time in an RV. without ever signing them off. Think two private pilots in a cessna 150 flying to an EAA chapter breakfast. The owner is in the right seat and has flown there many hours.
Under the regs. Who is PIC, who is the sole manipulator of the controls. Who gets to log the flight time. Is either one an instructor no. Did the FAR?s get violated? If the owner flies from the right seat is he the sole manipulator
And can he lig the time. If the other private pilots flies from the left seat, same rule can he log the time.
I am not here to split hairs or get in a debate. Two pilots same ratings
In a dual control aircraft have to make a decision who has the final authority. But it makes no difference who is flying the plane. Or what seat they are in. Either can be the sole manipulator of the controls and log the time. The FAA in all cases assumes and we all know that word, the PIC to be in the left seat but there is no regulation to that effect in Part 91,135,or 121 to what seat the PIC is in.
Jack
Jack