Captain stable
Very valid and good points until we get to this part
Protection of the public is the point
I am more cynical and would fire at the CAA A question. Is not the family, the friends the company employee who can all be legally carried by a PPL not the Public? Are they not entitled to the same safety requirements and standards as the "Public"? as next day they could buy a ticket with an AOC to go somewhere and suddenly become "the public".
It stinks a bit of double standards and work and revenue to the CAA.
We think of private operations as being 18 year old jamie in his Cessna 172 with three PAX but private ops can be a Challenger jet with commercially rated crew carrying business personel all over the world.
Pace