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Old 28th Feb 2019, 09:25
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At some point yes, having said that at some point so will one or two AOC operators, but Wingly IMHO is much more likely to result in said outcome much sooner.

Whilst seemingly legal , it makes a mockery of holding an AOC and all of the associated costs.

A lot of companies now won't permit their self fly hire aircraft to be used for it, some when they find out that they are competing with their self fly hirers for pleasure flying business are less than amused and I can see why.

They (Wingly) used to have a one line entry on their website to say helicopter flights are not covered by their insurance, not sure if that is still there.

Whilst EASA Part CAT is overdoing it with regards to hoops to jump through for safe operations, schemes like Wingly massively under do it, there was a pilot last year with about 70Hrs TT near London offering pleasure flights up and down the Thames with no oversight through Wingly.
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