Saw this ad recently on barnstormers.com:
SPORT PILOT TRAINING • YOUR SEARCH IS OVER • Fly a Challenger at North Carolina's beautiful Oak Island. Sport Training, transition time, or Ultralight training by CFI.You'll fly the beach with the sea gulls. Open cockpit, goggles on your head and a stick in your hand. On training completion you can get your checkride here as well. Local beach cottages available for rent and limited camping at the airport. Your family can go to the beach while you fly. We fly 7 days a week. Fly up to 3 times per day. $100 / hr. for ground & flight instruction. No charge for aircraft.(my italics) Plane is currently down for maintenance.Training resumes April 1 st. • Contact Gerry Baker - OAK ISLAND SPORT PLANES , Owner - located Oak Island, NC USA • Telephone: 910 - 367-1573 •
No charge for aircraft? This is an E-LSA that was probably run under the old exemption rules and now that the deadline has passed, it seems the owner didn't apply for a new airworthiness cert. with a LODA; the only way you can legally operate an LSA while charging for the aircraft, Or he was refused one; in either case he can now no longer charge for the use of the airplane. I suppose technically he's within his rights to do this, since an instructor gets paid for his time as a teacher; the airplane is a different matter altogether. I guess if a student needs to do his solo time, he gets charged $100, before or after, for "instruction" while he's in the air?
Is this clever thinking or just blatant rule bending?
SPORT PILOT TRAINING • YOUR SEARCH IS OVER • Fly a Challenger at North Carolina's beautiful Oak Island. Sport Training, transition time, or Ultralight training by CFI.You'll fly the beach with the sea gulls. Open cockpit, goggles on your head and a stick in your hand. On training completion you can get your checkride here as well. Local beach cottages available for rent and limited camping at the airport. Your family can go to the beach while you fly. We fly 7 days a week. Fly up to 3 times per day. $100 / hr. for ground & flight instruction. No charge for aircraft.(my italics) Plane is currently down for maintenance.Training resumes April 1 st. • Contact Gerry Baker - OAK ISLAND SPORT PLANES , Owner - located Oak Island, NC USA • Telephone: 910 - 367-1573 •
No charge for aircraft? This is an E-LSA that was probably run under the old exemption rules and now that the deadline has passed, it seems the owner didn't apply for a new airworthiness cert. with a LODA; the only way you can legally operate an LSA while charging for the aircraft, Or he was refused one; in either case he can now no longer charge for the use of the airplane. I suppose technically he's within his rights to do this, since an instructor gets paid for his time as a teacher; the airplane is a different matter altogether. I guess if a student needs to do his solo time, he gets charged $100, before or after, for "instruction" while he's in the air?
Is this clever thinking or just blatant rule bending?
