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Relaxation of Non-Certified Commercial Ops in EASA?

Snoopy wrote:

Not really. UL commercial stuff has nothing to do with EASA.

Correct. It’s up to each country to make their own regulations simply because EASA won’t. Drones are OK for commercial stuff, so there really is no good legal reason why an UL cannot be used to bring goods for instance, commercially. In Norway it is doubtful because the law say explicitly that ULs cannot be used in commercial operations (with certain “gray” exception from Part-NCO). Germany may not have such a wording in their laws and regulations.

Then there is the UL license itself. But that isn’t really a license in the correct sense, merely a paper saying you are competent to fly an UL. Sounds like a semantical difference, but legally it is more than semantics. A license grants you privileges you wouldn’t otherwise have. A “proof of competence” grants you no privileges you don’t already have (everyone has the right to fly an UL, but no one has the right to fly an EASA plane without the privileges given by the license). A PPL grants you the privilege to fly privately. To fly commercially, you need at least a CPL. For an UL, you have been given no privileges to start with, so commercially or not is a moot point, unless this is explicitly stated in law. This may not be the case in Germany.

Commercial operations with ULs may be fully legal in Germany for all I know. Sounds odd if it were, but not that odd. Everyone can use their own car or bicycle for business stuff, so why not an UL?

The elephant is the circulation
ENVA ENOP ENMO, Norway
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