Questions tagged [regulations]
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Is a CFII required in order for a flight Instructor to provide training for added class ratings?
Must a flight instructor have a CFII to provide multi-engine add-on training to a customer meeting the following criteria:
Holds a commercial pilot certificate with a single engine land class rating.
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What procedures do I have to follow to fly a seaplane from the US to Canada?
I work in the States and I'm thinking to go visit my friend in Canada. I have access to an Icon A5 and was thinking to fly from my closest lake in Vermont to his house which is also on a lake. What ...
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Can private pilots run other non-passenger flight businesses?
As I understand it, private pilots can not take paying passengers.
(Friends on a flight can give the pilot strictly only the friend's share of fuel etc. costs.)
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Are manned balloons allowed to land anywhere?
From time to time, quite spectacular videos turn up from hot air balloons landing in unusual or even quite tight spots, such as on a soccer field in Vlijmen, on a road in Nijkerk, or even on a small ...
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How close would another aircraft have to fly to warrant a sudden big altitude drop to avoid collision
This morning I read that mulitple people got (light) physical injuries after a passenger flight had to forcefully drop its altitude quickly in order to avoid collision with a fighter jet. The news ...
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How are flight hours counted?
I was watching a presentation from a software developers' conference in which the presenter went through the steps leading to the crash of United Airlines Flight 232 to make a point about Crew ...
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Are planes allowed to fly in circles, and is there a minimum legal altitude for takeoff and landing?
I live near a small, possibly private, airport. Every day there are small planes flying low over the neighborhood in circles for over half an hour. They appear to just be flying for recreational ...
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What are the missing elements to mandate airliners to have an AoA indicator? [closed]
ONGOING EDIT NOTE (By OP) This question is right now being comprehensively reworked to make it less broad over the course of the next number of days. (That's being done mainly offline, so as to ...
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Why aren't quadjets required to remain controllable after a sudden, simultaneous failure of two engines on one side?
For all multiengine jets, it must be possible to maintain directional control of the aircraft in the event of a sudden failure of one engine in flight, with the other(s) firewalled, down to not far ...
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Is this aircraft legal in Canada?
is an aircraft like this legal in Alberta, Canada? It's basically a human sized quadrocopter. If so do you need any license?
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Can a company be both an airplane manufacturer and an airline?
It may be advantageous for a company that manufactures its own aircraft to also be an airline. For example, the airline business would likely have reduced maintenance and parts costs relative to other ...
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With a Pandememic grounding many to their residence.... How to maintain flight hours?
No matter your Country, is grounding affecting license requirements(Passenger, Cargo or even Private) and how are the hours being rectified. CNN actually posed a great question in this article and I ...
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Are there regulations about carrying cargo on passenger seats?
We see that passenger aircraft have recently made cargo flights so that the supply chain does not decrease due to the Covid-19 crisis.
It is seen that the cargo boxes are loaded on the passenger ...
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Is it permitted to land amphibian plane in the ocean on Californian coast?
Given the length of the Californian coast, I was surprised to find so few seaplane services. I would expect air taxis between Long Beach and the coast, for example.
Is it permitted to land seaplanes ...
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Can a private jet take off without notifying anybody and land on private land in another country? [duplicate]
If you have a friend in the USA who owns a lot of land that is suitable for landing a plane, and you own a private jet with 2 pilots in Norway, can you take off in private property without notifying ...
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Do airports have their own incident/accident investigation departments?
Do airports have their own incident/accident investigation departments? or they are restricted to the NCAA/Safety department only?
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What is the FAA's official stance on logging illegal flight time?
To preface my question, I want to discuss the reality that with the number of people and flight operations, there are surely cases where pilots have mistakenly flown under conditions in which it is ...
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How was the endurance test in the Cessna 172 legal?
The flight in the Cessna 172 lasted around 64 days with two pilots switching to fly the plane. To my knowledge both FAA and EASA have rest periods which pilots have to follow. Also the refueling was ...
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Is night VMC still VMC if the underlying terrain is completely unlighted?
The whole point of visual meteorological conditions (VMC) is that there is sufficient visibility for a pilot to be able to safely fly by visual reference alone, without reference to instruments. This,...
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Is a non-US airline responsible for failing to cancel a flight over airspace the FAA determined was unsafe? [closed]
If the FAA determines that an airspace is unsafe, and a non-US airline thinks it knows better and fails to cancel flights
departing into that airspace, and passenger lives are lost as a result, is the ...
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Is there any agency or meeting, at global level, that rules flight zone interdictions? [duplicate]
Considering the number of conflicts in the world, and the tragic event of the airliner crash over Ukrainia caused by military action, there are a lot of flight interdiction zones on the world.
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Is it legal/possible to request a flight-path change from Domestic to International minutes after take-off, for a privately owned jet?
This is related to the recent escape of Carlos Ghosn from Japan. While we don't know the details yet, M. Ghosn allegedly boarded a private plane from a small airport near Osaka [and probably in a kind ...
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Is there a standard international Minimum Obstacle Clearance Altitude (MOCA)?
In Turkey, the Minimum Obstacle Clearance (MOC) in primary areas is 300m; what about other countries and region?
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What regulations apply to a VFR flight from South Africa to Namibia?
I just would like to know what kind of flight plan, permissions, en route airway paths and other factors that need to be considered?
Other than the passport, PPL license and aircraft documentation ...
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How long is a climb leg in a step-climb cruise flight segment allowed to take, according to regulations (FAA/EASA)?
I am working on a trajectory optimisation program for commercial, large aircraft, in which I want to incorporate realistic air traffic control regulations. One of the constraints I want to incorporate ...
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What does it take from the airlines to be ETOPS certified?
I have been told that the airlines to be certified for ETOPS apart from the aircraft certification, engineering wise it should have some conditions met in order to get the certification and to ...
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Is it illegal to fly a Cessna 172S under day VFR with an inoperative vacuum gauge?
Let's say my vacuum gauge is not working on my C172S and I want to go day VFR flying. There is no MEL. 14 CFR 91.213 details procedures for inoperative instruments, and I think the following ...
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Is there a standard for the frequency/interval between flashes of anti collision strobe light?
As far as I've spotted on lots of aircraft, I've noticed that the anti collision flashes are in a similar interval, no matter if it's a Boeing 737, Airbus or an F-16 Fighting Falcon. Is there any ...
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How moral are military aviation patents [closed]
I was reading about F-35's version that can take of vertically and it's mentioned that they are using a patented technology by Rolls-Royce called Fanlift and Liftsystem which brings me the questions:
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When were commercial pilots first allowed to use glasses?
Currently, pilots with defective (but correctable) vision are allowed to pilot airliners if they have at least two pairs of their corrective lenses (typically glasses) with them on board.
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How do humanitarian flights arrange special permissions to fly when ATC isn't available?
In natural disasters, transportation infrastructure is often among the first and most critical of public services to be disrupted. Not coincidentally, it's also a time that tends to see small airports ...
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Do all airports have the authority to impound aircraft for overdue fees?
In the 'Collapse' section of the Thomas Cook Wiki, it states that
At around midnight on 23 September, airports in the UK began to impound Thomas Cook aircraft upon arrival, citing "default in ...
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Can US pilots fly VFR OTT and/or VFR at night in Canada without additional ratings?
In the US, private pilots flying under VFR are implicitly allowed to fly without visual reference to the ground, eg. over an overcast cloud layer, as long as they maintain appropriate VFR weather ...
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What is the maximal acceptable delay between pilot's input and flight control surface actuation?
While I was watching a cockpit video of an A330 landing in which the pilot was frenetically moving its sidestick, I wander what was the reaction time of this flight by wire system. Indeed, the time ...
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Are there experimental aircraft regulations in Germany?
The title is the question.
Are there any special regulations regarding experimental aircraft in Germany (or the EU)?
Those "special regulations" would (hopefully) be looser set of regulations in ...
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Do UL aircraft complying with LTF-UL need to copy an existing design pattern?
With my current pipe dream being to get physically involved in aviation
instead of only theoretically, I looked into the regulations for ultralight planes in Germany.
On multiple occasions in the ...
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Why are electric shavers specifically permitted under FAR §91.21
This struck me as a bit strange, 91.21 which covers electronic devices that can be used during IFR flight has some exceptions, one through three make logical sense (not really sure why portable voice ...
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Does TSR (Time Since Repair) Need A Reset After A Clean/Inspect/Test Workscope?
So I am a little unclear on what the regulations recommend.
Say you have a component that has a Restoration (Ignore the nomenclature) workscope but it is strictly an Inspection/Cleaning/Testing ...
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Are paper charts required for flights outside the USA?
Can international flights by a US operator be performed paperless or do you need complete paper charts?
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Is there anything a copilot can do to stop a pilot from doing anything while flying? [duplicate]
Is there anything a copilot in a commercial aircraft can do to stop a pilot from doing anything while flying?
As I see it, there are two scenarios:
The pilot is going to do something malicious, in ...
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What are the consequences of an airline pilot deviating from a flight plan to perform a random maneuver?
What are the consequences of a pilot flying a scheduled airline flight with passengers deviating from a flight plan to perform a random maneuver?
Say during a normal landing procedure, he spots ...
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Reclined seats for take off and landing
Normally on commercial flights, passengers are expected to bring their seats to an upright position for take off and landing. There are a few valid reasons for this.
A little while ago, on a couple ...
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What happens to a plane that goes to / from an enclave when the surrounding country closes its airspace?
When Pakistan closed its airspace, planes that had routes flying over Pakistan had to deviate around that country.
What would happen to planes en route to or from Lesotho, if South Africa closed its ...
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How Military to Civil Aircraft Transition is made by National Authorities?
As we know military aircrafts are not regulated by civil aviation authority organisations,namely FAA, CAA and etc. Is there any possible way to transform a military aircraft( like helicopters) to ...
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Are ham radio contacts allowed from inside an airplane?
This question probably lies in the middle ground between Amateur Radio.SE and Aviation.SE.
I have seen a couple of videos where ham radio contacts are made with people on board a commercial aircraft ...
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Why did this pilot have his single-engine license revoked?
5 minutes into this video, a commercial Indonesian pilot is shown performing a very tame version of a parabolic flight path as performed by zero-gravity flights, in a Cessna 172.
This video has over ...
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How low can a helicopter fly above a residence if the helicopter is an air ambulance landing?
Two medical helicopters just located directly across the street from my home. Their landing pad is less than 500 feet from my property. When they land, the helicopter is only 100 to 200 feet above ...
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What regulation says that a manufacturer must support a fleet above a specific size?
Beechcraft bought back Starship to reduce the size of the flying fleet so they could stop supporting them. What regulation defines the fleet size a manufacturer has to support?
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Are aviation regulators generally slower to issue orders affecting their "own" aircraft manufacturers?
It did not fail to escape the attention of commentators that the US Federal Aviation Authority was amongst the last aviation regulators to issue an order grounding the 737 MAX.
Is there evidence to ...
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Is failure to comply with evacuation procedures illegal?
In every flight, we are instructed that we must leave our personal belongings in case of evacuation. I remember also notified that it is illegal not to follow the rules (I don't remember if this goes ...
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