Lal and Para are not aviators and may not be able to stand up to the SLAF. While saying all that, the SLAF will do a good job as they have the technical competance and Govt backing.
Many years ago at a seminar for lawyers organized by Air Lanka, to comemorate 100 years of ICAO, a team of law professors from the McGill University, Canada, declared that it is the mission that dictates whether a flight is Civil or Military. (ie) If a Civil a/c carries military personnel it be comes Military. If a Military a/c carries out an urgent medical mission, it becomes civil! We will have to leave it to the lawyers to decide.
Is 'Heletours' a public company? If so they will have to conform to all the requirments of CAASL introduced by their own man Capt. Ana Jayasinhe. Ana introduced so much paperwork just to show the authorities that the CAASL was in control. Now even to fly a balloon one needs an Ops Manual! It is the same for private importers of a/c. They are shooting themselves in the foot! According to the ANRs, the DG can designate certain a/c as 'Simple types' which need not operate like a private airline.
There is no doubt that Heletours will have to obtain an Air Operator Certificate (AOC). The guys will have to have a few designated a/c whose mechanical status will have to be monitored by CAASL. Amongst other controls, the workshops will have to be examined. The SLAF uniforms will have to go.
But then it will be a one horse race and will kill free enterprise. GA will surly be killed. That was what my original concerns were about.