Logging a flight (record) in my logbook as a CFI is not compensation, it's a record. As an Instructor not only I follow the reg quoted below, but I maintain a record of every student I fly with. I can log the flight time and I do, even on a regular lesson because I am still endorsing their logbooks for that specific flights and I keep it in my records. Have the FAA try to prove in court that logging flight hours is a form of compensations specially for those of us whom have an ATP.

If an attorney donates his or her time for people of low income in court must that attorney summit to the IRS that they gained extra experience in the courtroom as a form of compensation? We have become a nation that fears the law (FAA) as people push their agenda, our nation wasn't built like this. Know your stuff, it's only going to get worse as the lamest generation enter their late 20's and 30's and before you say it I am part of the lamest generation.




Sec. 61.189 — Flight instructor records.

(a) A flight instructor must sign the logbook of each person to whom that instructor has given flight training or ground training.
(b) A flight instructor must maintain a record in a logbook or a separate document that contains the following:

(1) The name of each person whose logbook or student pilot certificate that instructor has endorsed for solo flight privileges, and the date of the endorsement; and

(2) The name of each person that instructor has endorsed for a knowledge test or practical test, and the record shall also indicate the kind of test, the date, and the results.

(c) Each flight instructor must retain the records required by this section for at least 3 years.