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Originally Posted by Shane BCP
Hello everyone,
The CEO I work for is interested in taking a King Air or Cirrus SR22 on 5/23/23 from John C Tune (JWN) Nashville, TN Airport to Middle Georgia Regional (MCN) Macon, GA Airport. He wants to depart at 2pm and land by 5pm on May 23 and wants to depart at 9:30pm and arrive back in Tennessee by 10:30pm same day. If you are a private pilot for hire in the area please PM me. If this post is against the rules please delete!
Thank you!
Shane, a private pilot cannot fly for compensation or hire. I believe you're not asking about the private pilot, but an individual pilot; in this case a pilot with a commercial pilot certificate.
Unfortunately, while a commercially-certificated pilot can do the trip and be compensated, the FAA also has regulations that govern providing services to the public; providing both an aircraft and one's self as pilot is very problematic. A commercial pilot may fly the airplane if you provide it, but you run into a host of insurance, regulatory, and other issues along the way.
Providing services to take persons or property for hire from A to B generally falls under a charter operation, also called a Part 135 operation; as noted above, you'd need to contact a local charter operator for that flight. It will likely be expensive. Charter operators are required to abide strict maintenance regulations, maintain a full set of manuals and certifications and be issued their own regulations by the FAA, and have an FAA inspector assigned to them as oversight. All their pilots have strict training and checking requirements and timelines, and they're also restricted to the amount of time and duty (availability) they can provide each day. They're also required to carry insurance, maintain a drug screening program, etc. It all costs money, and consequently charters can be expensive.
If a private pilot makes that trip and is compensated in any way, including buying him or her lunch, or simply the pilot writing the time in his or her logbook, it's an illegal act and can bring fines and pilot certification actions, up to and including suspension of that pilots certificate. The FAA does not want unqualified or inexperienced, or otherwise unprepared pilots, aircraft, or operations moving the public, as the FAA has a responsibility oversee safety of all aviation operations.
What you're proposing would easily fall within the legal duty day for a charter, but it's something you'll have to contact a charter operation and arrange.
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