For pleasure flights of any nature, (of which instructing is NOT), you require an AOC.
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For instructing, an AOC is not required.Sorry to disagree with you but I have some knowledge of this matter as I was working in CAA when this was discussed at length in the context of whether FTOs needed an AOC for purely flying training
God help us all if the above ever transpires. As somebody who works in close context with organisations who have HAD to obtain and operate an AOC, it is an extremely time consuming, difficult and very expensive operation.
If flying schools are forced to obtain their own AOC in the future, I can quite confidentely predict that most small, (and some not so small), schools will go out of business - it simply wouldn't be worth it. This would obviously mean that ultimately, instructors would lose out, because there would not be much work around at all.
Perhaps the CAA want this - I don't know....
(sorry to go a little off subject)