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Thanks for your input folks, helps to define better as to what I will do with this airplane. I read a multi-part article in Twin Cessna Pilot magazine, where the author describes a process of obtaining a part 135 certificate from scratch. It's totally absorbing, and one would have to operate...

Not really, though closely related. In the previous thread I wanted to see if I could do instruction in the Navajo. Here I expanded to see what other types of work I can do in it, as there might not be enough work teaching in this kind of airplane.

Few years ago I toyed with the idea of buying some sort of a franchise. I read about a guy who bought a 7-eleven outfit. Worked 16 hour days. At the end of the year, he netted out $60,000. I can make that much doing something I know well, and have been doing for long time, and really enjoy...

I work for a 121 operator and have for decades. This will be my first venture into my own operation, and I am still evolving in this area.

Good, very informative stuff. Hopefully I will sort all of this out, define my mission, visit the local FISDO and discuss it with them, and start setting up my operation.

My flight time is 20,000+ I can do the above work, no sweat. Have done some of it already. If I can't do most of my own maintenance and have control over it, then it becomes a problem.

I guess this would require a maintenance program to stay on top of it all.

I don't have an A&P but have few A&P friends who say will inspect and sign my work. Some of it will have to be done by them, some outsourced to specialized companies.

I thought sight-seeing is part 136 and 91, so maintenance is allowed, unlike 135. This would be a major setback, as I was thinking sight-seeing, and a bit of multi teaching.

I think there might be a major problem with 135 for me. As a 135 operator supposedly one can't do his own maintenance. I got to have my hands right on the airplane, keeping it in top shape, doing most of the work myself..

At this point I am still looking at any and all the possibilities. Aerial sight-seeing, photography, teaching multi. Aerial mapping / remote sensing.. Got to read up on it. Thanks.

So unfortunate and sad when someone goes down.

Oh I see what you mean. Got to have my own in-house program.

That's an interesting twist. I wonder how large of a slice of the pie would they want for this privilege.

I undergo random drug and alcohol testing at my current job, so no problem here. Looks like getting a 135 certificate will require a major effort. I still have few more years to decide on what kind of work I will do with a Navajo, and start setting it up.

This could be the best route if go 135.

Long time ago I flew for a while on night check runs, but I guess that is dead now. Night freight, that could be interesting. Thanks.

I'll talk to the local FSDO. Thanks.

I haven't started doing any flying yet. I have checked out some hangars, insurance (reasonable), and am trying to get a general scoop on what kind of work I can do with a Navajo, once I retire from my current job. I suspect that some of you guys might be right about teaching in a Navajo, the...

You guys mean like buy into a part 135 certificate, or start from scratch? This would be difficult wouldn't it?