Originally Posted by JohnBurke

No, I don't agree.

Joe Blow employee can do his job, including ordering fuel, without needing to be a pilot. Ordering fuel, pumping fuel, handling fuel, sampling fuel, or even making fuel calculations doesn't require one to be a trained crew member. He's a company employee. Perhaps the company wants him to ride along, get exposure, get experience, throw bags, take care of fuel, hold a passengers hand, or make shadow puppets for the inflight entertainment. None of those are regulatory violations.



He was careful enough to include no details whosoever that indicate that he or the company has violated a regulation. He's careful enough to refuse to identify the regulation that he alleges that he knows "for a fact" to have been violated.

He's gone out of his way to not be careful at all when it comes to accusing his employer of "forcing" employees and operating "illegally."



He won't identify the duties, and doesn't seem to have much knowledge or understanding of what those might be, or the regulations that prescribe them.



I don't think the original poster understands the term. My definition would be in harmony with that of the FAA.

The original poster, after howling long and loud about the illegal crew duties he's forced to endure and the illegal operation of the company, can't or wont' cite a regulation, and seems offended by any reference to it. "Put down the FAR/AIM and relax." He says. He's not qualified to be a day VFR 135 pilot...at three hundred hours, he doesn't sound informed at all. His idea of what it means to operate? I make no assumptions.



I don't speculate. Thus far he's stated nothing that indicates a violation of the regulation.

Again, what regulation has he or the violated? Cite it.

He states that he knows it for a fact. State the fact.