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Questions tagged [commercial-operations]

Questions pertaining to the operation of aircraft for commercial purposes.

According to 14 CFR 1.1, Commercial Operations are operations that engage in the carriage by aircraft in air commerce of persons or property for compensation or hire, other than as an air carrier or foreign air carrier.

For air carrier operations see .

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How are banners kept upright?

Banners are towed with a single line trailing from the plane. source: © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) How can they guarantee the banner is vertical and not upside down?
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For flight planning must the forecast weather be above minima one hour before, after or at ETA? (EU-OPS)

Citing EU-OPS: CAT.OP.MPA.185 Planning minima for IFR flights — aeroplanes (a) Planning minima for a take-off alternate aerodrome The operator shall only select an aerodrome as a take-off alternate aerodrome when the appropriate weather reports…
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Commercial operation certificate requirement outside air transportation

My question is about whether I need a part 121/125/135 certificate to perform commercial operation that is not air transportation. 14 CFR 119.1 (a) says that part 119 applies to air carrier or commercial operator. According to the definitions in…
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Do pilots get full credit hours when they fly double or augmented?

In commercial airlines, in some very long flights as far as I know they require double cockpit crew sets (2 pilots, 2 co-pilots) to operate. Do both crew sets get the full credit hours for these flights? Or do they get 50% only as they only operate…
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Are aircraft transferable between companies with different Air Operator Certificates?

Can Company A use Company B's aircraft if the two companies are not on the same Air Operator Certificate (AOC)? Company A will provide the crew. This would be a transfer of equipment use with no transfer of ownership. The aircraft in question…
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Is it legal to start a non-profit that anyone can donate to which can pay the expenses for donated medical/animal transport flight?

I know this is a question that a lawyer should be helping out with, but I figured I would start here just to point me in some different directions. I am interest in doing flights to ferry passengers in need of transportation to medical appointments…
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Under what circumstances do planes poop?

I had always assumed that human waste was removed from commercial aircraft while they were on the ground, some inscrutable machine coming by to suck the material out and carry it away. Although that may happen, it appears that planes do have the…
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