“We are left with no choice but to shut down Flytenow”

Re:“We are left with no choice but to shut down Flytenow” by jwise0 on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @03:04PM (#10780022)

I assume that the reason why this is being downvoted is because people disagree with the "for money" premise. (I wish downvoters in this case would comment, rather than simply downvoting!) Flytenow was operating under the provision that allows a private pilot to take a "pro rata share" of costs from a passenger, for a genuine "common purpose".

I think that Flytenow, by their advertising, probably failed the "common purpose" test, but more than that, it failed the duck test -- it looked like a duck, walked like a duck, and quacked like a duck. It looked like using a private pilot's license for commercial activity.

As someone with a pilot pilot's license, I think the FAA and the judicial branch made the right call.

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Re:“We are left with no choice but to shut down Flytenow” by pc86 on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @03:20PM (#10780138)

Most people I know at the intersection of GA and technology are mostly (or entirely) on board with the FAA in this case. The ones acting like this is a great injustice are either GA-only with little tech savvy (and didn't know what Flytenow was before a few days ago) or have no aviation experience and greatly underestimate the danger of GA and the need for clear distinctions between PPL, CPL, CFI, etc.

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