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FAA Issues Emergency Order of Revocation Against TapJets, Inc.
WASHINGTON–The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an Emergency Order of Revocation against TapJets, Inc. of Spring, Texas and Fargo, North Dakota, for allegedly conducting passenger-carrying flights using unqualified pilots and operating unauthorized aircraft. (www.faa.gov) 更多...
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And yet their website is still up and conducting flight auctions.
They can still contract those flights to another outfit.
F406 Caravan...everything says the proper thing but the pictures are all Cessna 208 Caravan. What a joke...and then all the stolen Controller pictures. Just another race to the bottom outfit that employed slum management and dangerous pilots. Sadly the charter/managed business is all going that way.
Their "PIPER PA42T CHEYENNE IV" is actually a Cheyenne II. Pratts and all.
https://www.tapjets.com/Home/Article/tapjets-answers-recent-faa-inquiry <---their response
"Just like Uber, Airbnb, and other successful companies that changed the status-quo" Well yeah, the status-quo of flying people safely is kind of something we want our government to enforce LOL
I'm all for market disruption. However, if TJ doesn't understand the massive difference between driving a car and flying an airplane, they deserve to have their operating certificate yanked.
Secondly, the FAA alleges that TJ put student pilots in the right seat. I don't mean commercially certificated pilots who were learning to fly for TJ. I mean students who cannot even solo a Cessna 172 without an instructor's sign off. No one in their right mind would suggest that it's cool if a bunch of 15yo learner's permit student drivers were running around as Uber drivers.
Secondly, the FAA alleges that TJ put student pilots in the right seat. I don't mean commercially certificated pilots who were learning to fly for TJ. I mean students who cannot even solo a Cessna 172 without an instructor's sign off. No one in their right mind would suggest that it's cool if a bunch of 15yo learner's permit student drivers were running around as Uber drivers.
If they were operating under 91 as the link above says, those flights were completely legal. There are usually at least 2 sides to every hysterical issue.
I agree with the two sides to a story. The FAA has a history of behaving like small town cops looking to meet a ticket quota and they seem to use the media as a way to drive public opinion in favor of their actions. They are acting on an anonymous tip and the facts will will come to light eventually. We do not know what aircraft these flights occurred in, therefore we don't know if two pilots were actually required, etc etc....
Operating under Part 91 does not allow the use of a non-rated crew member in an aircraft certified for two pilots, much less a student pilot.
