This is a nonsense and a contradiction! It goes on to say rental fees? What rental will you get that does not include fixed costs as well as direct costs and an element of profit?
What private operation will include fixed costs as well as direct costs but with no element of profit?
So if you rent an aircraft but don't use your own you can accept direct costs as well as fixed costs and profit. But if you use your own you cannot accept fixed costs which are real costs even without profit?
???? I don't understand the confusion
This is 'Cost Sharing' and the rules haven't changed.
Direct Costs = What it costs the
PIC to fly
that particular flight and nothing else.
Whether that be only £20 for the fuel used in their own aircraft or the, possibly, £100s it cost to rent the aircraft.
We could set up a company, buy a Cessna 182 and run an air-taxi service and keep the change from that 2.1m !
NO, you could not:
4.3 Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No. 965/2012, as amended by Regulation (EU) No. 379/2014, states that:
'Introductory flight' means any flight against remuneration or other valuable consideration consisting of an air tour of short duration, offered by an approved training organisation or an organisation created with the aim of promoting aerial sport or leisure aviation, for the purpose of attracting new trainees or new members.’
4.4 NCO.GEN.103 (Introductory flights) of the Operations Regulation states that the flights shall:
(a) start and end at the same aerodrome or operating site, except for balloons and sailplanes;
That is a very subtle distinction. To Joe Public, it's an introduction to handling the controls......if it were designated a PLEASURE FLIGHT , J. P's expectations would be somewhat different........
"an air tour of short duration"
If someone buys a Bus Tour they do not expect to have a go at driving the bus.
IF JP's expectations are that they will handle the controls then the "organisation" has misrepresented what they are offering.
The one thing I do find confusing is that ATOs are specifically stated as being allowed to do this - but no mention of whether this is a general permission or whether it has to be listed as one of their 'approved' activities - and what about RFs?