On 12 Feb 2002, at 13:20, Riad S. Wahby wrote: > Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, if the "passengers" were on the books as part-time employees then more > > than 10 could fly and still be classed as Part 135? Can you spell employee > > owned airline? > > I'm not sure about this, but I think that in this context "passenger" > is used in the general aviation sense---anyone who is not the pilot in > command is a passenger. In effect, there can't be more than 10 people > on the plane in total. > > Hopefully, I'm wrong about this. If I am, however, I suspect that the > only other person on the plane who wouldn't count towards this total > would be the co-pilot. > >
Forgive me for being absurd, but is there a limit to the number of copilots a plane can have? I mean, if the pilot and the first three co-pilots happened to die of old age simultaneously, it'd make sense to have a fourth copilot as a back-up, right? George
