Hmmmmm. .. .And I thought that the regs were being simplified into 'Plane talk'. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> . .. .Notwithstanding the current regs as written and the above discussion, why not just despatch with this ridiculous notion of 'private' 'employment' or otherwise.. .The object of the reg is to protect the pilot, unsuspecting pax and persons underneath the flight path from some zombie pilot taking them out.. .That means
ANY flight time private or otherwise and if it is necessary to apply a duty time to private ops whats wrong with using the old definition that is applied to commercial ops for the purpose of defining duty time, viz whatever the elapsed flight time is for the day say total 3 hours parachuting flight time starting at 7am and finishing at 7pm with the flt prep and pack up applied at each end.. .. .From a practical viewpoint you are not going to get far with me and my counsel if you take out any of my family whilst barging around the airspace on some bull**** legal interpretation of whatever. . .. ."But yer 'onour I only flew the parachutists very lightly, hec, they were only passengers in the aircraft for a few minutes, hardly touched the controls, avoided doing any real thinking and concentrated hard on my incredible lightness of being, coz I knew I had to crew a 15 hr flight very early the next morning and I didn't want to be tired for it". .. .Who was resposible for and who is driving the need for their to be
any distinction. I'll bet it's not the operators. .. .As an aside, there was TN Capt famous for allegedly moonlighting as a importer of used aircraft using his ID90 and his RDOs to ferry them across the pond. This saved a significant amount of money by not having to pay a ferry pilot. He was observed allegedly stepping out of a single after a 15 plus hour ferry leg to walk across the tarmac to command a coupla sectors in his real job. . .CAIRS and a number of representations failed to evince any action from our regulator, due I believe to the above discussed confusion and their then general reluctance to act on anything that wasn't prima facie on the TV news. . .It wasn't until several tyro Oz pilots were lost off the West African coast allegedly in his company and as a result of his activities that he was invited to resign for allegedly 'conduct unbecoming'. Dunno where he is today but hell would be a good place. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="mad.gif" />. . . . <small>[ 18 March 2002, 12:54: Message edited by: gaunty ]</small>