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I'm having a difficult time deciphering the specifics of the following questions I have, before I take along a safety pilot with me on a flight tomorrow morning.
1) Can a pilot with a commercial rating be paid money to be a safety pilot? The short answer I found to this one via Google seemed to be "Yes", but I'd like to verify and ask if anyone has any standard rates that they pay people for this service. The commercial pilot I am taking with me is not a CFI yet, but is working towards it.
2) My insurance requires 750 TT, 150 hours complex and 10 hours in make/model. If the pilot I take up doesn't meet these requirements, do I let him only log SIC time, or once the flight is safely finished, can I allow him to log PIC as well? I guess I'm concerned that if I let him log PIC time tomorrow without him having 10 hours in make/model, and then we have an accident the next time, that my insurance will use that against me.
I did come across a few interesting links regarding safety pilot compensation, (see below), including one directly from the FAA, but I didn't see anything regarding the insurance aspect.
http://www.ifrdevelopment.com/Safety_Pilot_Interpretation_2012.pdf
https://engineering.purdue.edu/PPI/safetypilot.php
1) Can a pilot with a commercial rating be paid money to be a safety pilot? The short answer I found to this one via Google seemed to be "Yes", but I'd like to verify and ask if anyone has any standard rates that they pay people for this service. The commercial pilot I am taking with me is not a CFI yet, but is working towards it.
2) My insurance requires 750 TT, 150 hours complex and 10 hours in make/model. If the pilot I take up doesn't meet these requirements, do I let him only log SIC time, or once the flight is safely finished, can I allow him to log PIC as well? I guess I'm concerned that if I let him log PIC time tomorrow without him having 10 hours in make/model, and then we have an accident the next time, that my insurance will use that against me.
I did come across a few interesting links regarding safety pilot compensation, (see below), including one directly from the FAA, but I didn't see anything regarding the insurance aspect.
http://www.ifrdevelopment.com/Safety_Pilot_Interpretation_2012.pdf
https://engineering.purdue.edu/PPI/safetypilot.php