In order to help reduce the cost of building hours towards my commercial license, I have been offering to take friends and family up for sightseeing tours around the city. As far as I know, if I take two passengers, I am allowed to split the cost as long as I don’t take a profit on these flights. With three people onboard, a one-hour flight works out to be under $50 per person which is way better than the $140 I would be paying for just myself. To my knowledge, this sort of thing isn’t allowed in the US.
Today I took up a coworker and his thirteen year old son who was interested in flying. We did the standard sightseeing bit around the city and then flew over their house (a popular request). After that, we headed west of the city where I demonstrated some of the airwork items that I usually practice when I’m solo such as steep turns and stalls. We then headed back to the airport and did a few circuits. His son was fairly interested in most of the things I was busy doing so I tried to explain everything as best I could. The whole flight was 1.4 hours and I tracked it with the GPS on my iPhone. Below is the track:
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