Morning gents,
My business has just won a contract out in Arnhem Land. I’m led to believe that I can transport my own staff out to the job site and back, whilst being paid (my own wages) and it’s classified as private ops. Correct me if I’m wrong.
The confusing bit for me, is that I’m hiring the aircraft on an hourly rate from another company. Does that change things?
Next issue is, another contractor has approached me to fly his staff to the same community. How can I achieve this without requiring an AOC. The most logical answer for this would be for him to hire the aircraft from the hirer and I then fly it for free.
I approached CASA yesterday with this and was told, “we can’t give legal advice, it’s up to the courts to determine if we were ever to catch you, not that we are saying it’s right or wrong”