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Thanks
That makes sense....more so than the FSDO did the other day when I broke down and asked them. (They referred me to SB 830 (49 CFR 830.2)"Aircraft accident means an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage."
and to
FAR Part 1
"Flight time means:
(1) Pilot time that commences when an aircraft moves under its own power for the purpose of flight and ends when the aircraft comes to rest after landing; ..."), and then said since I wouldn't cause an aircraft accident when taxiing from the FBO to my hanger (if I hit the gas pumps, I suppose), and couldn't log that taxi time as flight time, it seemed that I wasn't exercising the privileges of my private pilot license, and so it was ok, or so they thought - but they weren't very reassuring.
I like your answer better, particularly since the root word "operate" fits so much better in with the applicable FAR:
FAR Sec. 61.53 Prohibition on operations during medical deficiency.
(a) Operations that require a medical certificate. Except as
provided for in paragraph (b) of this section, a person who holds a
current medical certificate issued under part 67 of this chapter shall
not act as pilot in command, or in any other capacity as a required
pilot flight crewmember, while that person:
(1) Knows or has reason to know of any medical condition that would
make the person unable to meet the requirements for the medical....
Since I'm not "operating" the aircraft (per definitions, as you point out), I'm not prohibited from non-operational taxiing during my medical deficiency.
So...thanks a bunch. You made my day.
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