Originally Posted by
sispanys ria
A client can perfectly hire/lease/buy a plane and SEPARATELY hire a pilot to fly him wherever he wants, as long as it's for his PRIVATE USE. What would make the client (and the pilot) conduct illegal OPS, would be to use the aircraft to generate income (that would become COMMERCIAL OPS).
But richatom's clients haven't been doing this.
From his earlier post:
Originally Posted by
richatom
What I have done up to now is hire the aircraft, then send an invoice to the clients for the aircraft and fuel, and another invoice for my own time.
By his own admission, richatom has told us that he has hired an aircraft and provided his services as a pilot. (ie illegal PT.) He is just trying to hide behind the '2 invoices' scam.
Now, if his clients had genuinely approached an aircraft owner, hired/leased the aircraft and
then hired richatom as the pilot, that would be legal (just). But that isn't happening here.
PS richatom
is patently using the aircraft 'to generate income (that would become COMMERCIAL OPS).'