Blackbird Air Ride Sharing

[Jetwhine]

Anyone in the U.S. have any experience with Blackbird Air out of California. They claim to bring passengers, GA pilot and airplanes together to create inexpensive ride-sharing services on the passenger's schedule.

Rob

[garsr1]

You peaked my curiosity. How is this operated 135 or 91? Looks like Uber, anyone can fly their personal plane for compensation.

[garsr1]

https://www.flyblackbird.com/pilot-faq

Found it. They are doing dry lease agreement. Pilot requirement's are 500 TT with 200 PIC and an instrument.

[Jetwhine]

That's what I'm trying to figure out. These seem to me like they would be charters, but I guess not.

[Jetwhine]

Still sounds odd to me. They're saying it's not a charter and that the passenger that rents the airplane has operational control of the flight, not the pilot. Can't imagine how a passenger would understand anything about this.

[garsr1]

It will make it easier to move undocumented pharmaceuticals through the state. I wonder what kind of back ground checks are done if any.