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APRIL 2022
AERIAL TOURS Thrills of a Lifetime!
Have you ever thought of enjoying breathtaking views from inside an aircraft while you soar over fascinating and breathtaking scenery around the world? Or wondered who provides such ‘Memories of a Lifetime’ services? Patrick Ryan offers a special ‘scenic air tour’ of this unique Aerial Work aviation sector, which comes together to make life more exhilarating and fun for everyone!
Welcome to ‘Aerial Work Aviation – Air Tours’
Can you picture it? The buzz from a single-engine Aviat Husky airplane echos in your ears as you soar above the Alaskan landscape. All around you, snow-covered mountains stare at you from every direction, punctuated only by twisting, flowing, cold rocky riverbeds below… a magnificent but remote landscape. Then the plane banks, and over the buzz of the engine the pilot directs you to look at what appears to be just another set of curving, rocky riverbeds. But then, as you scan, the rocks start to come to life, to form definitive shapes — with large brown shoulder humps, massive front claws, and piercing eyes looking up at you – it’s a family of grizzly bears spending the morning catching salmon. If you ever spent time flying around a 3D interactive Earth map at warp speed, you already know the appeal of viewing places from the sky. However, when seen from a real-world viewpoint like an aircraft, even familiar places become new, with different shades, forms, and geographical features you’d never known existed.
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So it makes sense that Aerial Tours have become more popular and more specialised over the years. Likewise, many Aerial Work service providers have broadened their offerings considerably as customer enthusiasm has grown even with pandemic restrictions.
What is this Special Aerial Work Sector?
Aerial Tours — also known as ‘Air Tours’ or ‘Flightseeing’ — refers to sightseeing trips carried out in an aircraft. An Air Tour means any flight conducted for compensation or hire in an airplane where the purpose of the flight is sightseeing over a preplanned location, often to experience something unique. What is not Aerial Tours? Aerial Tours is not Air Transportation or Recreational General Aviation. Instead, conducting Aerial Tours is a specialised job in its own right. Aerial Tours focuses on touring vs. delivering someone or something from point A to point B. Or taking your mother up in the air so she can see her neighborhood from a new and exciting perspective. There are specific laws and policies specifically regulating commercial Air Tours in many countries. For example, the FAA (under Part 136 – Commercial Air
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