By the same token Classic Flights and numerous other companies listed recently in Flypast and other magazines are able to charge for flights in a range of vintage “training aircraft”.

Sometimes it’s good to have a clear statement on a topic we are debating from the “top”.

I suppose the answer your question must be a theoretical “yes”. If an owner is prepared to take you up for nothing, then it would seem to be legal and possible.

How has he, see post 13 and others!
It isn’t that clear cut.

He had at the time but now Agcat’s post seems definitive – doesn’t it?

Well good luck – each to his own I suppose, but I can think of around 100 other things I might rather do…..;)

So, if I have understood this correctly, an owner of a Spitfire CAN take a passenger, so long as the passenger is not charged for the flight.

What amazed me about that programme was the wide variety of types flown inside 24 hours.
A lot of 1940s military aircraft were not easy to fly, and emergencies could rapidly develop from simple overcontrol.
So hats off to those brave ladies, and men, who flew for the A.T.A.

Indeed so. I meant to post some thoughts on this programme, which has been overlooked in the BoB season. It was excellent and extremely informative about something of which I knew only a little. Marvellous survivors talking about the job as though it was yesterday. And picking up your original point they had no training but simply flew from type to type. Extraordinary women and very under-recognized.

When their war ended it seemed for many of them a total anti-climax as most never flew again and many remembered those years as their best.