Sorry, Able, I was not meaning that the show teams were not relevent. I just played EC and ran off on a tangent. Now the subject is a thread in the forum as you know because you've been there.

While this thread was concerning AMA insurance while getting paid for services, it has become a topic of FAA authority. I side with ira d on this subject. Since I have a background dealing with FAA I feel qualified to have an opinion. [>:]

It is very easy to get caught up in the differences betwee LAW and administrative regulations. FAA can certainly get confused there, themselves. For example, the age 60 retirement for FAR 121 Airline Pilots was LAW as passed by the Congress of the United States. Now that has been raised to 65, by congress and signed by the president. FAA monitors that.
OTOH many of the regulations concerning airspace, pilots, and all the stuff thereof are simply regulations. FAA has congressional authority to revoke one's license within the discipline in which one may be violating some regulation. Other than that, FAA administrative regulations are of little concern to any other person/s.
Even in the users of various aviation licenses, pilots, dispatchers, etc., the FAA has little authority in criminal actions. While the US Surpreme Court has judged that an airline pilot can be charged with criminal action should he be suspected of doing something wrong that hurts person or property, other than revoking a license for one year for failure of a drug test, I know of only one criminal action taken against FAA licensed personel, but I would reason there are others.
That criminal action was against the Captain and myself -- when I was still a co-pilot -- which resulted in a quick "Not Guilty" and the FAA then tried to get the case into Federal District Court where it was thrown out and not allowed on the document. [8D] It was only "Regulations" that were in question, not LAW, and even the FAA could not figure that out.

So if I violate an FAA regulation with my toy airplane, what are they going to do? Take my "license" away from me?
Besides FAA has too much golf to play to get bothered with toy airplanes.

Now if you're close to a golf course and an errant golf ball hits you on the noggin', well it just may be an FAA Flight Examiner trying to get you.