Originally Posted by
oggers
Operational Control:
There is either an ops manual stating who has operational control, or it is the PIC.
Not necessarily. In a typical "corporate flying department" where a company owns (or has access to) one or more planes and employs (or contracts) one or more pilots it is the company that has operational control. It decides on the flying dates, which plane to use for what route and which pilot to assign to each flight. Under EASA part NCC an ops manual is required for that kind of flying (which would include the Eclipse of which was written above) but not a piston Malibu. Anyway the latter was "N" registered and therefore outside EASA regulations.