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Hi Alex,

Alex France (adf@crosfield.co.uk) wrote:
> Just curious, but is this legal in Germany? I refer to the advertising
> and not the cost-sharing flights. In other countries (e.g. US an UK) it
> is OK to do cost sharing flights, but not to in any way advertise
> them.

If I remember the German rules correctly they don't say anything about
advertising for cost-sharing flights, so I assume it's legal. At least
it's a very common thing for flying clubs to advertise cost-sharing round-
trip flights, and letting private pilots (e.g. club members) do the flying.
Were did you find a restriction on advertising cost-sharing flights in the
US? FAR 61.118 just tells your priviliges as a private pilot regarding
hire and sharing of operating costs, but nothing about advertising. But
I don't know the entire FAR's so I may have missed something?

Another issue is advertising any flights (be it commercial or just for
cost sharing) in Usenet groups other than those meant for advertising.
Does that still comply with the netiquette?  And besides that a price
of 1,- DM per person for a C172 seems rater high to me. In my club we
pay 2,80 DM per minute, and a 172 can take four people which makes 0,70
DM per person per minute.

gero.

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