Originally Posted by "yr right'
Your confusion is that your trying to place flying ops with maintenance. You can't do this. When anything is placed on the M/R it has to be done IAW. Iaw an EO an mel a pus. If you can't do it IAW you can't do it.
This is where I'm a little confused: surely IAW means "in accordance with all regulations", not just the maintenance schedule?
Which is why I asked the question: if a non-essential piece of equipment for a private VFR flight fails away from home (a light bulb, for example), and you can still conduct the flight according to 20.18.10.2, and the aircraft happens to be in the charter category, then does that mean a mercy flight has to be declared to get home? Because that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
What would you do?