alfadog
Final Approach
Curious about the makeup here of business vs strictly personal travel/pleasure.
Just to clarify what I am getting at here: if you look at your logbook over the last 90 days, pick the highest category that fits even a single occurrence. So if you provided nonmilitary flight instruction once in the last 90 days and were paid for that, choose the second category. That is probably the only way to deal with all the variable scenarios.
Copying this here for clarification purposes though I think folks are doing fine and I appreciate the votes and responses:
I assume all pilots enjoy flying and many use an airplane for pleasure and personal transpo even if military or nonmilitary pro pilots. The categories are not intended to be exclusive of that. Only the last category is exclusive of work-related flying.
And further:
Yeah, I see that I missed a whole category called perhaps "volunteer pilot on someone else's dime." (Which may or may not be the way you might describe it.) I'd still want to keep that last group for folks that pay the entire freight of their flying and would lean toward putting you in the second to last category (you figured out how to get someone else to put you in the pilot's seat - good on ya).
I'm sure you'all see where I'm going with this by now but just in case:
Sure, the wording is not perfect. But if you fly in the course of earning an income and take some or all of the flying expenses as a tax deduction as a business expense then, for the purposes of my poll, it is the same as if you flew for another firm or business either frequently or occasionally so categories 3 or 4, respectively. That's the best I can do at this point because I can't change the poll once it's created.
Just to clarify what I am getting at here: if you look at your logbook over the last 90 days, pick the highest category that fits even a single occurrence. So if you provided nonmilitary flight instruction once in the last 90 days and were paid for that, choose the second category. That is probably the only way to deal with all the variable scenarios.
Copying this here for clarification purposes though I think folks are doing fine and I appreciate the votes and responses:
I assume all pilots enjoy flying and many use an airplane for pleasure and personal transpo even if military or nonmilitary pro pilots. The categories are not intended to be exclusive of that. Only the last category is exclusive of work-related flying.
And further:
Yeah, I see that I missed a whole category called perhaps "volunteer pilot on someone else's dime." (Which may or may not be the way you might describe it.) I'd still want to keep that last group for folks that pay the entire freight of their flying and would lean toward putting you in the second to last category (you figured out how to get someone else to put you in the pilot's seat - good on ya).
I'm sure you'all see where I'm going with this by now but just in case:
Sure, the wording is not perfect. But if you fly in the course of earning an income and take some or all of the flying expenses as a tax deduction as a business expense then, for the purposes of my poll, it is the same as if you flew for another firm or business either frequently or occasionally so categories 3 or 4, respectively. That's the best I can do at this point because I can't change the poll once it's created.
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