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Alaska the state or Alaska Airlines?

• controversy 6y ago
  The state. Getting into the bush efficiently requires a plane. You could go old school with horses and dogs.
• excerionsforte 6y ago
  Commercial pilot license is required for any pilot looking to fly for a business operating aircraft for a profit.
  • thrill 6y ago
    This gets frequently abused in the US. Some of the abuse seems trivial on the surface - for example a friend can't legally pay you to fly him to a meeting far enough away to make driving undesirable on a clear pleasant day, even though you both frequently fly together personally on the weekends. However, there's no legal surprises on the FAA regulations and no excuse that a pilot can make that it seemed ok, as the regulations are quite clear that any compensation of any kind is illegal without holding a commercial certificate.
    • ryandrake 6y ago
      14 CFR 61.113 (c) allows the passenger to compensate the pilot so long as the pilot is not paying less than the pro rata share of the operating expenses.
      • redis_mlc 6y ago
        No, there's many more restrictions than that, including common purpose, and not being a scheduled flight.