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Old 15th Dec 2008, 09:13
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helimutt
 
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Ok, you need to work out what it is you need to hold in way of AOC etc. An AOC is just that, an Air Operators Certificate. You will need to produce a set of manuals as to how you're going to go about your business, guidelines available from the CAA website. There isn't any one such certificate as you would hold yourself as a qualification, unless i'm mistaken.
You'd need to nominate certain postholders in your company and have in place things like engineering and a Chief Pilot.
There is about 12 months of work and an absolute load of money required to set up your own AOC these days, and to be honest, unless you had so much work ready, it wouldn't really be worth the effort until the credit crunch etc is over. Not for the foreseeable future.

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