Originally Posted by FougaMagister
Blue Coyote - Emerald did not have sims for either the Shorts 360 or the HS 748; they did the flight training in the actual aircraft (8 hours or so) - plus obviously the LST and the base training. Therefore I think they need the AOC to be valid in order to use the aircraft for that purpose - but then again, as Air Mail mentioned, what's the point?
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My reply is now completely irrelevant as there are now no ground instructors or TRI/TRE's, however you do not need an AOC for a TRTO. TRTO comes under JAR FCL and the Ops side of life comes under (not surprisingly) JAR OPS. In theory you can run a TRTO completely independently without actually having an operation. When I made the post it was possible to get the rating as groundschool function and flight training function still existed regardless of the AOC.
