"Eric Miller" wrote in message
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| "Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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| "Eric Miller" wrote in message
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| Oh, well that's different, that just sounds like regular "you can't
fly
| someone from point A to point B for recompense on just a Private
| certificate"
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| It's got nothing to do with that. You can't even fly someone from
point
| A to Point A for recompense on a private certificate.
|
| Fair enough, money and private certifcate are mutually exclusive except
for
| fair cost sharing.
| And of course, money is always allowed to hemorrage OUT of your pocket!
|
|
| You can't fly sightseeing (other than this local exception) with a
| comercial
| pilot certificate either UNLESS you have a comercial operators
certificate
| issued under one of the Part 119-related sections.
|
| Still, cancelling exemptions for charities and not-for-profit
organizations
| doesn't sound productive (if I read this correctly)
|

You do read it correctly, but until now any commercial pilot could (and did)
fly sightseeing flights. Now you will have to register as a type of airline
(an air tour operator), which will increase costs enormously and make
flightseeing almost impossibly expensive. Those biplane rides you used to be
able to get at airports you visit would be gone. Forever. Hiring a CFI to
show you around the local area would be gone. No more flights on the
Tri-Motor or Aluminum Overcast.

The only flightseeing would be expensive rides on organized trips in
airplanes like the Caravan. Nothing else would be cost effective.