Quote from The Times.
The CAA confirmed that Mr Ibbotson had a valid PPL and there was nothing to prevrnt an American-registered private aircraft being used for charter flights
I'm not getting this.
I thought a CPL and AOC are among the requirements to charter.
I also thought that N reg could not charter here. Surely an N reg can't be on a UK AOC without special dispensation. How do you square that with the CAA's statement above? Where are they coming from?
If this goon had a UK, even a US PPL he had no right being involved in a charter.
He apparently had no IR so even if he had a CPL he'd be illegal on htis route at night and IMC?
He was in an N reg aeroplane in the first place.
How can legal charter come out of this?
Or is the CAA weaselling words to avoid answering the question?