So without digging in to CARS, you can fly ferry flights at night, single pilot, single engine?
You cannot fly with passengers for revenue single pilot, single engine. Can you fly surveillance, monitoring or filming at night single engine single pilot?
Police fly single engine single pilot and sometimes carry a passenger. Pretty sure both HAWK and AIR 1 do this. Those regimes are ok? Then why not revenue with restrictions on ceiling and visibility. I think sight seeing over a big city (YYZ or YVR)at night should be allowed in a jet box but I've done lots of night so maybe I'm off the mark as my experience is all military as well.
I also think that night VFR in the arctic with reasonable ambient light should be allowed too, seems operators loose revenue to me. I remember an exercise in the late 80s in Goose where we spent four or five consecutive nights doing slinging ops all night and weather maintained barely VFR. We were dual pilot though and in an IFR capable bird but we still had 20 mile transits with the loads.
Mind you I remember doing parade night formation in 83 with four Twin Hueys in the formation. We flew echelon left, line astern and echelon right, a two hour ordeal in puckering your rectum and sweating off five pounds. Some major was trying to prove that we could do it and I remember in the debrief how we talked about getting so close we could read the triple tach on the aircraft ahead of us and hear his tail rotor. Oh God is kind to dumb animals......we never did that again. Everytime I think about it again I start to sweat and think to myself, dumb, dumb, dumb, lucky to be alive, dumb, dumb, dumb....