Originally Posted by
Pittsextra
The guy who he would engage with in this type of event for helicopters at the CAA would be only too pleased to get his teeth stuck into someone who was operating illegally - so that he hasn’t means a lack of evidence or lack of shouting / informing from those suggesting its widespread....
Having stood beside CAA staff watching grey market aircraft appear out of the low overcast, doing their home-made GPS approaches into VFR airports, having sat in meeting rooms with them to discuss exactly this topic, having provided lists of aircraft, crew, passengers, and flights, all of these things, and seen them do NOTHING, I can lay my life on the fact that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
SND takes one view; another large AOC owner has been bold enough to voice that he might just ditch his certification and go grey market, on the grounds that he’ll never be prosecuted, and if he were, the fines would be a fraction of what he pays in fees and the costs of ‘compliance’.
Try calling ACA, see what they say.
https://www.theaircharterassociation...legal-charter/
And then, think how it feels to see the billionaire you’ve carried in your twin jet, week in, week out, disappear from the schedule, and then spot him walking out to his ‘friend’s’ PC12 for his regular trip... Fury gets nowhere near covering it.