Hi Creampuff, gotta cook dinner - will be back later - but that's what I was thinking.
I'm just having a hard time understanding what yr right means in regards to "maintenance standard". I thought that was simply to do with the scheduled maintenance standard and that the other regs (as highlighted) still allowed the PIC to fly in a lower category if the aircraft didn't meet those standards in-between schedules.
Obviously, the next time the aircraft went in for scheduled maintenance, it would then be maintained to the charter category.
That's really the crux of this whole debate.