Originally Posted by
The Wawa Zone
While a scenic flight is seemingly a simple task, it is not so to the pilot who may very well be in his/her first commercial flying job and will need all the help they can get from the AOC holder. This is a good idea.
Wawa Zone,
If your example so called pilot needs so much help for the simple task of flying for a short hop VFR ( compared to doing exactly the same thing as a private operation with a couple of friends as a PPL) I shudder at what his/her/its presumed level of (in)competence might be.
Further, as the only difference between the two flights in the above paragraph is that a few $$$ changed hands, pray tell how a few $$$ changing hands made it so much more difficult. And how a few kgs. of dead tree shelf-ware helps.
There really is an aviation regulation version of the Stockholm Syndrome at work here. There is simply no risk management justification, much less a benefit/cost justification, for an AOC for simple straightforward operations ----- as the US has proved for years.
Tootle pip!!