(a) Statement of concept. A flight training operator is a person, firm or corporation engaged in instructing pilots in dual and solo flight training, in fixed and/or rotary wing aircraft, and provides such related ground school instruction as is necessary preparatory to taking a written examination and flight check ride for the category or categories of pilots' licenses and ratings involved.
(b) Minimum standards.
(1) The operator shall lease from the city an area of not less than 18,000 square feet of ground space on which shall be erected a building providing at least 3,000 square feet of floor space for aircraft storage, and at least 1,200 square feet of floor space for office, restrooms, customer lounge and telephone facilities for customer use; auto parking space with minimum accommodations for ten automobiles (no on-street parking), a paved walkway, all within the leased area and sufficient to accommodate the operator's activities.
(2) The operator shall have available for use in flight training, either owned or under written lease to operator, a sufficient number of aircraft properly certificated to handle the proposed scope of his student operation, but not less than three properly certificated aircraft, at least one of which must be a four-place aircraft, and at least one of which must be equipped for and capable of use in instrument flight instruction.
(3) The operator performing the services under this category will be required to carry the following types of insurance in the limits specified:
(A) | Aircraft liability: | |||
Bodily injury (each accident) | ||||
Each person | $100,000.00 | |||
For more than one person | $300,000.00 | |||
Property damage | ||||
Each accident | $100,000.00 | |||
(B) | Comprehensive public liability and comprehensive property damage: | |||
Bodily injury (each accident) | ||||
Each person | $100,000.00 | |||
For more than one person | $300,000.00 | |||
Property damage | ||||
Each accident | $100,000.00 | |||
(C) | Hangar keepers liability: | |||
Each accident | $300,000.00 | |||
(4) The operator shall have his premises open and services available five days a week.
(5) The operator shall have on duty, on a full-time basis, at least one flight instructor who has been currently certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration to provide the type of flight training offered; and shall have available on call, on a part-time basis, at least one flight instructor who has been currently certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration to provide the type of flight training offered which shall include at least private, commercial and instrument ratings.
(Prior Code, § 10-14; Ord. of 6-22-1982)