Originally Posted by
Walkeraviator
You are correct. You are limited in hours you can fly for compensation and the airline wants every single minute of it flown for them.
I do NOT endorse or condone this action, but I have known guys to instruct against their companies wishes. To prevent paper trail he would write up flight instruction on two separate invoices. 1 would appear to be an aircraft rental, and the other would appear to be ground instruction.
That tact wouldn't necessarily preclude a paper trail if someone became suspicious and did some poking around. One of the best [dumbest] ideas I've heard came from an FAA inspector years ago. An applicant scheduled an ATP Exam with this inspector. The inspector became suspicious after meeting the applicant and reviewing his logbook. The inspector took the logbook to a computer and started entering registration/N numbers. The inspector quickly discovered that a large majority of the aircraft the applicant claimed flight time in had crashed! It turned out, this applicant had taken a tour of an aircraft salvage/impound yard and copied down a bunch of N numbers somehow thinking this would be a safe bet... End of Exam, and then some...