Originally Posted by Homeguard
Remember if you are acting outside of an AOC you must be exploiting the exemption given to training within a club. One member training the other. A ferry flight therefore isn't part of that and cannot count as instruction.
Thanks for your help with this. I didn't even know about the "club" exemption. I thought an AOC applied purely to Public Transport, not Training.
Would I be correct in thinking a registered training facility (for PPL) does not need to exploit this exemption in order to conduct training. i.e. the students / instructors do not need to be members of any "club". (I'm pretty sure we're not a club since plenty of Trial Lessons are "walk-ins").
I was more interested in the "licenced aerodrome" aspect. Not entirely comfortable with the idea of "if you don't like the answer then don't ask the question". Whilst I appreciate the commercial aspects that the flight must be paid for, should the flight be deemed to be "illegal public transport" in the "subsequent board of enquiry", then it would almost certainly be uninsured - with commercial consequences far more dire than I care to contemplate - for both the school and the individual instructor.
I take it, then, that any rumours to the effect that the training flight can be conducted from "wheels up" to "wheels down" at a normally licenced aerodrome which has become temporarily unlicenced, is basically b*ll*cks?
Regarding the instructor, I realise he can log PIC from chock to chock, but I was wondering if he can also log Instructor Time from chock to chock or only for the legitimate training time.
Regards