Part 135 ???
Brianh
My views only, not (yet) sanctioned by AOPA Board.
We need what Part 135 was meant to be before it was canned.
Like meat Bombing, hang gliding and glider flying, a joyflight is an 'experience' think where the passenger must accept some risk. It is not an airline flight. We can easilly define joyflight "departs and returns from same airfield (except in emergency) and covers a distance of (say) no more than 250 nm"
So I'd like that put into Airwork with no AOC required.
I am interested in, but haven't formed a view on, aerial taxi operations. Why shouldn't a CPL with a cessna be able to hire his services out as a VFR 'taxi'. Again, not an 'airline' ticket with the passenger understanding that and accepting the slight increase in risk. This means cheap, available service for someone who needs to get somewhere quickly. Again, who needs an AOC??? (and what does a bl@@dy AOC achieve anyway??)
But like I said, I am very open to more educated opinion here.
Of course, that would mean following the (as promised by the Minister) FARs not the (preferred by Toller) JARs.
AK