Folks,
Cast your minds back a few years, a now long departed Assistant DAS actually came up with a wonderful idea for a "Private Operations AOC", including legislative drafting guidelines, and it is an example of how hard it is to kill a really bad idea. It almost eliminated private flying as we (and ICAO/rest of the civilised world) knows it.
The poor sods trying to operate "Warbirds Adventure Flights" now have an AOC in all but name, with that complete bugaboo, an "Operations manual" replete with all the personal foibles demanded by whoever "approves" it??
Tootle pip!!