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Old 22nd Apr 2017, 01:38
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gulliBell
 
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Without knowing the rules in that part of the world, common sense tells me it's a no-goer as proposed. If you have a company performing helicopter charter services you need a chief pilot and an operational specification. So you'd need to appoint a pilot who meets the chief pilot requirements and submit them for approval. And chief pilots can't be freelance, they need to exert daily operational control. I would be staggered if a newly minted CPL-H could go and buy a helicopter and provide charter services in it as suggested. A newly minted commercial pilot needs close supervision by an experienced pilot during their induction to commercial operations. You just can't blast off into the ether on day 1 by yourself without any operational oversight. I wouldn't even send a newly minted commercial pilot out to do joyflights on day 1 without close supervision, let alone anything more complex.

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