Originally Posted by
Old Akro
The list goes on and on. Fun Flight, flights sold at raffles / auctions to raise money for the local school. Taking your kids school friends for a fly, scouts, families from the local aero club, the list goes on and on.
Then, what about the pilots who (lawfully) use their aircraft to fly employees around?
This is a pandora's box.
Old Akro,
See my post about "Private Operations AOC", and have a search around for the original CASA proposal. Captures all of the above.
"Private Operations", without the benefit of the said AOC, ie: Private Operations as ICAO/the Rest Of the World knows it, would be limited to the owner/pilot of the aircraft and immediate family.
What is happening here is a resurrection of the CASA Private Operations AOC proposal, and yet again, an example of how hard it is to kill a bad idea, once it takes hold in CASA.
A real live example of the process is Part 132, no real substance, no answer to any known problem, just an answer looking for a problem ---- introduced in very questionable circumstances, hundreds of pages to do what several paragraphs in the then existing regulation had successfully done for about eighteen years. The seemingly unstoppable creep of bureaucratic micro-management, despite Government (bi-partisan) policy to the contrary.
But, as you all understand" "Safety is our first priority" ------ the safety of our very lucrative bureaucratic sinecures.
Tootle pip!!