Heliringer,
Nice one
But how does that stand up in court, when CAR (1988) Subsection 2 (7A) says:
(7A) An aircraft that carries persons on a flight, otherwise than in accordance with a fixed schedule between terminals, is employed in a private operation if:
(a) public notice of the flight has not been given by any form of public advertisement or announcement; and
(b) the number of persons on the flight, including the operating crew, does not exceed 6; and
(c) no payment is made for the services of the operating crew; and
(d) the persons on the flight, including the operating crew, share equally in the costs of the flight; and
(e) no payment is required for a person on the flight other than a payment under paragraph (d).
If the pilot is paid as operating crew (even if he/she is a stationhand), it cannot be a Private Op: CAR's take precedence over CAO's IIRC.
This is why I hate trying to make sense of CAR/CAO's
