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Originally Posted by exleardriver  +1. and if you do own your own airplane you may provide pilot services to a few clients..start flying too many clients and the faa, local fsdo inspectors will conclude that you are indeed 'holding out to the public', would take a dim view and require that you do all the due diligence to obtain a part 135 air operator certificate. how many clients is too many? it's often debated, but if you appear to have like half a dozen and more, the faa becomes suspicious as to just how many clients you're willing to take on..anybody, any day? tgrayson is correct..in your case you're simply providing pilot services. lot's of folks do.. |
Wouldn't this still be considered common carriage though? I'm more asking rather than debating. If you have your own plane, and you contract your plane (not just your pilot services), couldn't this be considered something along the lines of on-demand charter? The example that comes to mind is companies like Ameriflight. They don't have that many contracts; just UPS isn't it? That is unless you consider each route as a separate contract. Maybe they do, and please correct me if I'm wrong.
Butt, as far as what you said, they were legal because the university owned the plane, and it could be considered just one contract. It still has to be limited in some way. In that case it was probably limited to university related transportation or their alumni or something, it wasn't just open to any Joe or Jane that came in off the street wanting a ride.