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Old 9th Apr 2012, 17:46
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cldrvr
 
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I have been flying an M-reg for a few years on a part-time basis and we have hardly ever had an issue getting "commercial" fuel. The few times we did, the backoffice managed to get the taxes back in retrospect.

A4Fly, I have never seen any benefit for an owner giving his airplane to an AOC operator, why have any muppet flying your airplane and have snotty kids rub chocolate and Ribena all over your shiny new interior is beyond me.

As to a management company, that's a different story, many owners, especially "new" ones prefer a management company to starting their own flight department. I currently operate for an owner that knows what he is doing and we have our own flight department, he started of with a management company many moons ago, but quickly realised that he was better and cheaper of doing it himself. What some of these management companies charge is highway robbery.
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