Originally Posted by
Journey Man
The neater solution would be to specify the exemptions for AOC aircraft in Op Manual Part A, rather than the clumsy referring AOC aircraft to Part-NCC.
This is exactly how we have always been doing it. Pre and post EASA regulations. The aircraft always stays on the AOC, but for private flights, which are marked with "G" instead of "N" in the flight plan special exceptions, written down in the OM-A (pilot age limitations) and OM-B (landing factors), apply. The flight plan entries can be seen by anyone including SAFA inspectors so there can be no doubt about which kind of flight is being performed. The We do not use NCC factors (are there any?) but numbers negotiated between our company and the national authority. Our accountants must make sure that duty and taxes are paid on the fuel for those private flights, otherwise the tax office will become our worst enemy.