- 14 CFR Part 91 Subpart
CEquipment, Instrument, and Certificate
Requirements
- Sec. 91.201 Carry-on-baggage.
- No pilot in command of an airplane having
a seating capacity of more than
- 19 passengers may permit a passenger to
stow his baggage aboard that airplane
- except
- (a) In a suitable baggage or cargo storage
compartment, or as provided in
- Sec. 91.203; or
- (b) Under a passenger seat in such a way
that it will not slide forward under crash impacts severe
enough to induce the ultimate inertia forces specified in
Sec. 25.561(b)(3) of this chapter, or the requirements of
the regulations under which the airplane was type
certificated. After December 4, 1979, restraining devices
must also limit sideward motion of under-seat baggage and
be designed to withstand crash impacts severe enough to
induce sideward forces specified in Sec. 25.561(b)(3) of
this chapter.
-
- Sec. 91.203 Civil aircraft: Certifications
required.
- (a) Except as provided in Sec. 91.715, no
person may operate a civil aircraft unless it has within
it the following:
- (1) An appropriate and current
airworthiness certificate. Each U.S. airworthiness
certificate used to comply with this subparagraph (except
a special flight permit, a copy of the applicable
operations specifications issued under Sec. 21.197© of
this chapter, appropriate sections of the air carrier
manual required by parts 121 and 135 of this chapter
containing that portion of the operations specifications
issued under Sec. 21.197©, or an authorization under
Sec. 91.611) must have on it the registration number
assigned to the aircraft under part 47 of this chapter.
However, the airworthiness certificate need not have on
it an assigned special identification number before 10
days after that number is first affixed to the aircraft.
A revised airworthiness certificate having on it an
assigned special identification number, that has been
affixed to an aircraft, may only be obtained upon
application to an FAA Flight Standards district office.
- (2) An effective U.S. registration
certificate issued to its owner or, for operation within
the United States, the second duplicate copy (pink) of
the Aircraft Registration Application as provided for in
Sec. 47.31(b), or a registration certificate issued under
the laws of a foreign country.
- (b) No person may operate a civil aircraft
unless the airworthiness certificate required by
paragraph (a) of this section or a special flight
authorization issued under Sec. 91.715 is displayed at
the cabin or cockpit entrance so that it is legible to
passengers or crew.
- (c) No person may operate an aircraft with
a fuel tank installed within the passenger compartment or
a baggage compartment unless the installation was
accomplished pursuant to part 43 of this chapter, and a
copy of FAA Form 337 authorizing that installation is on
board the aircraft.
- (d) No person may operate a civil airplane
(domestic or foreign) into or out of an airport in the
United States unless it complies with the fuel venting
and exhaust emissions requirements of part 34 of this
chapter.
-
- Sec. 91.205 Powered civil aircraft with
standard category U.S. airworthiness
- certificates: Instrument and equipment requirements.
- (a) General. Except as provided in
paragraphs ©(3) and (e) of this section, no person may
operate a powered civil aircraft with a standard category
U.S. airworthiness certificate in any operation described
in paragraphs (b) through (f) of this section unless that
aircraft contains the instruments and equipment specified
in those paragraphs (or FAA-approved equivalents) for
that type of operation, and those instruments and items
of equipment are in operable condition.
- (b) Visual-flight rules (day). For VFR
flight during the day, the following instruments and
equipment are required:
- (1) Airspeed indicator.
- (2) Altimeter.
- (3) Magnetic direction indicator.
- (4) Tachometer for each engine.
- (5) Oil pressure gauge for each engine
using pressure system.
- (6) Temperature gauge for each
liquid-cooled engine.
- (7) Oil temperature gauge for each
air-cooled engine.
- (8) Manifold pressure gauge for each
altitude engine.
- (9) Fuel gauge indicating the quantity of
fuel in each tank.
- (10) Landing gear position indicator, if
the aircraft has a retractable landing gear.
- (11) For small civil airplanes
certificated after March 11, 1996, in accordance with
part 23 of this chapter, an approved aviation red or
aviation white anticollision light system. In the event
of failure of any light of the anticollision light
system, operation of the aircraft may continue to a
location where repairs or replacement can be made.
- (12) If the aircraft is operated for hire
over water and beyond power-off gliding distance from
shore, approved flotation gear readily available to each
occupant and at least one pyrotechnic signaling device.
As used in this section, "shore" means that
area of the land adjacent to the water which is above the
high water mark and excludes land areas which are
intermittently under water.
- (13) An approved safety belt with an
approved metal-to-metal latching device for each occupant
2 years of age or older.
- (14) For small civil airplanes
manufactured after July 18, 1978, an approved shoulder
harness for each front seat. The shoulder harness must be
designed to protect the occupant from serious head injury
when the occupant experiences the ultimate inertia forces
specified in Sec. 23.561(b)(2) of this chapter. Each
shoulder harness installed at a flight crewmember station
must permit the crewmember, when seated and with the
safety belt and shoulder harness fastened, to perform all
functions necessary for flight operations.
- For purposes of this paragraph
- (i) The date of manufacture of an airplane
is the date the inspection acceptance records reflect
that the airplane is complete and meets the FAA-approved
type design data; and
- (ii) A front seat is a seat located at a
flight crewmember station or any seat located alongside
such a seat.
- (15) An emergency locator transmitter, if
required by Sec. 91.207.
- (16) For normal, utility, and acrobatic
category airplanes with a seating configuration,
excluding pilot seats, of 9 or less, manufactured after
- December 12, 1986, a shoulder harness
for
- (i) Each front seat that meets the
requirements of Sec. 23.785 (g) and (h) of this chapter
in effect on December 12, 1985;
- (ii) Each additional seat that meets the
requirements of Sec. 23.785(g) of this chapter in effect
on December 12, 1985.
- (17) For rotorcraft manufactured after
September 16, 1992, a shoulder harness for each seat that
meets the requirements of Sec. 27.2 or Sec. 29.2 of this
chapter in effect on September 16, 1991.
-
- (c) Visual
flight rules (night). For VFR
flight at night, the following instruments and equipment
are required:
- (1) Instruments and equipment specified in
paragraph (b) of this section.
- (2) Approved position lights.
- (3) An approved aviation red or aviation
white anticollision light system on all U.S.-registered
civil aircraft. Anticollision light systems initially
installed after August 11, 1971, on aircraft for which a
type certificate was issued or applied for before August
11, 1971, must at least meet the anticollision light
standards of part 23, 25, 27, or 29 of this chapter, as
applicable, that were in effect on August 10, 1971,
except that the color may be either aviation red or
aviation white. In the event of failure of any light of
the anticollision light system, operations with the
aircraft may be continued to a stop where repairs or
replacement can be made.
- (4) If the aircraft is operated for hire,
one electric landing light.
- (5) An adequate source of electrical
energy for all installed electrical and radio equipment.
- (6) One spare set of fuses, or three spare
fuses of each kind required, that are accessible to the
pilot in flight.
-
- (d) Instrument flight rules. For IFR flight, the following instruments and equipment are
required:
- (1) Instruments and equipment specified in
paragraph (b) of this section, and, for night flight,
instruments and equipment specified in paragraph (c) of
this section.
- (2) Two-way radio communications system
and navigational equipment appropriate to the ground
facilities to be used.
- (3) Gyroscopic rate-of-turn indicator,
except on the following aircraft:
- (i) Airplanes with a third attitude
instrument system usable through flight attitudes of 360
degrees of pitch and roll and installed in accordance
with the instrument requirements prescribed in Sec.
121.305(j) of this chapter; and
- (ii) Rotorcraft with a third attitude
instrument system usable through flight attitudes of
+/-80 degrees of pitch and +/-120 degrees of roll and
installed in accordance with Sec. 29.1303(g) of this
chapter.
- (4) Slip-skid indicator.
- (5) Sensitive altimeter adjustable for
barometric pressure.
- (6) A clock displaying hours, minutes, and
seconds with a sweep-second pointer or digital
presentation.
- (7) Generator or alternator of adequate
capacity.
- (8) Gyroscopic pitch and bank indicator
(artificial horizon).
- (9) Gyroscopic direction indicator
(directional gyro or equivalent).
-
- (e) Flight
at and above 24,000 ft. MSL (FL
240). If VOR navigational equipment is required under
paragraph (d)(2) of this section, no person may operate a
U.S.-registered civil aircraft within the 50 states and
the District of Columbia at or above FL 240 unless that
aircraft is equipped with approved distance measuring
equipment (DME). When DME required by this paragraph
fails at and above FL 240, the pilot in command of the
aircraft shall notify ATC immediately, and then may
continue operations at and above FL 240 to the next
airport of intended landing at which repairs or
replacement of the equipment can be made.
-
- (f) Category II operations. For Category
II operations the instruments and equipment specified in
paragraph (d) of this section and appendix A to this part
are required. This paragraph does not apply to operations
conducted by the holder of a certificate issued under
part 121 of this chapter.
-
- Sec. 91.207 Emergency
locator transmitters. Airworthiness
(a) Except as provided in paragraphs (e)
and (f) of this section, no person may operate a
U.S.-registered civil airplane unless
- (1) There is attached to the airplane an
approved automatic type emergency locator transmitter
that is in operable condition for the following
operations, except that after June 21, 1995, an emergency
locator transmitter that meets the requirements of
TSO-C91 may not be used for new installations:
- (i) Those operations governed by the
supplemental air carrier and commercial operator rules of
parts 121 and 125;
- (ii) Charter flights governed by the
domestic and flag air carrier rules of part 121 of this
chapter; and
- (iii) Operations governed by part 135 of
this chapter; or
- (2) For operations other than those
specified in paragraph (a)(1) of this section, there must
be attached to the airplane an approved personal type or
an approved automatic type emergency locator transmitter
that is in operable condition, except that after June 21,
1995, an emergency locator transmitter that meets the
requirements of TSO-C91 may not be used for new
installations.
(b) Each emergency locator transmitter
required by paragraph (a) of this section must be
attached to the airplane in such a manner that the
probability of damage to the transmitter in the event of
crash impact is minimized. Fixed and deployable automatic
type transmitters must be attached to the airplane as far
aft as practicable.
(c) Batteries used in the emergency
locator transmitters required by paragraphs (a) and (b)
of this section must be replaced (or recharged, if the
batteries are rechargeable)-- Airworthiness
- (1) When the transmitter has been in use
for more than 1 cumulative hour; or
- (2) When 50 percent of their useful life
(or, for rechargeable batteries,
- 50 percent of their useful life of charge)
has expired, as established by the transmitter
manufacturer under its approval.
- The new expiration date for replacing (or
recharging) the battery must be legibly marked on the
outside of the transmitter and entered in the aircraft
maintenance record. Paragraph ©(2) of this section does
not apply to batteries (such as water-activated
batteries) that are essentially unaffected during
probable storage intervals.
(d) Each emergency locator transmitter
required by paragraph (a) of this section must be
inspected within 12 calendar months after the last
inspection for Airworthiness
- (1) Proper installation;
- (2) Battery corrosion;
- (3) Operation of the controls and crash
sensor; and
- (4) The presence of a sufficient signal
radiated from its antenna.
- (e) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this
section, a person may
- (1) Ferry a newly acquired airplane from
the place where possession of it was taken to a place
where the emergency locator transmitter is to be
installed; and
- (2) Ferry an airplane with an inoperative
emergency locator transmitter from a place where repairs
or replacements cannot be made to a place where they can
be made.
-
- No person other than required crewmembers
may be carried aboard an airplane being ferried under
paragraph (e) of this section.
- (f) Paragraph (a) of this section does not
apply to
- (1) Turbojet-powered aircraft;
- (2) Aircraft while engaged in scheduled
flights by scheduled air carriers;
- (3) Aircraft while engaged in training
operations conducted entirely within a 50-nautical mile
radius of the airport from which such local flight
operations began;
- (4) Aircraft while engaged in flight
operations incident to design and testing;
- (5) New aircraft while engaged in flight
operations incident to their manufacture, preparation,
and delivery;
- (6) Aircraft while engaged in flight
operations incident to the aerial application of
chemicals and other substances for agricultural purposes;
- (7) Aircraft certificated by the
Administrator for research and development purposes;
- (8) Aircraft while used for showing
compliance with regulations, crew training, exhibition,
air racing, or market surveys;
- (9) Aircraft equipped to carry not more
than one person; and
- (10) An aircraft during any period for
which the transmitter has been temporarily removed for
inspection, repair, modification, or replacement, subject
to the following:
- (i) No person may operate the aircraft
unless the aircraft records contain an entry which
includes the date of initial removal, the make, model,
serial number, and reason for removing the transmitter,
and a placard located in view of the pilot to show
"ELT not installed."
- (ii) No person may operate the aircraft
more than 90 days after the ELT is initially removed from
the aircraft.
-
- Sec. 91.209 Aircraft lights.
- No person may:
- (a) During the period from sunset to
sunrise (or, in Alaska, during the period a prominent
unlighted object cannot be seen from a distance of 3
statute miles or the sun is more than 6 degrees below the
horizon)--
- (1) Operate an aircraft unless it has
lighted position lights;
- (2) Park or move an aircraft in, or in
dangerous proximity to, a night flight operations area of
an airport unless the aircraft
- (i) Is clearly illuminated;
- (ii) Has lighted position lights; or
- (iii) is in an area that is marked by
obstruction lights;
- (3) Anchor an aircraft unless the
aircraft
- (i) Has lighted anchor lights; or
- (ii) Is in an area where anchor lights are
not required on vessels; or
- (b) Operate an aircraft that is equipped
with an anticollision light system, unless it has lighted
anticollision lights. However, the anticollision lights
need not be lighted when the pilot-in-command determines
that, because of operating conditions, it would be in the
interest of safety to turn the lights off.
-
- Sec. 91.211 Supplemental
oxygen.
- (a) General. No person may operate a civil
aircraft of U.S. registry
- (1) At cabin pressure altitudes above
12,500 feet (MSL) up to and including
- 14,000 feet (MSL) unless the required
minimum flight crew is provided with and uses
supplemental oxygen for that part of the flight at those
altitudes that is of more than 30 minutes duration;
- (2) At cabin pressure altitudes above
14,000 feet (MSL) unless the required minimum flight crew
is provided with and uses supplemental oxygen during the
entire flight time at those altitudes; and
- (3) At cabin pressure altitudes above
15,000 feet (MSL) unless each occupant of the aircraft is
provided with supplemental oxygen.
-
- (b) Pressurized cabin aircraft. (1) No
person may operate a civil aircraft of U.S. registry with
a pressurized cabin
- (i) At flight altitudes above flight level
250 unless at least a 10-minute supply of supplemental
oxygen, in addition to any oxygen required to satisfy
paragraph (a) of this section, is available for each
occupant of the aircraft for use in the event that a
descent is necessitated by loss of cabin pressurization;
and
- (ii) At flight altitudes above flight
level 350 unless one pilot at the controls of the
airplane is wearing and using an oxygen mask that is
secured and sealed and that either supplies oxygen at all
times or automatically supplies oxygen whenever the cabin
pressure altitude of the airplane exceeds 14,000 feet
(MSL), except that the one pilot need not wear and use an
oxygen mask while at or below flight level 410 if there
are two pilots at the controls and each pilot has a
quick-donning type of oxygen mask that can be placed on
the face with one hand from the ready position within 5
seconds, supplying oxygen and properly secured and
sealed.
- (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (b)(1)(ii)
of this section, if for any reason at any time it is
necessary for one pilot to leave the controls of the
aircraft when operating at flight altitudes above flight
level 350, the remaining pilot at the controls shall put
on and use an oxygen mask until the other pilot has
returned to that crewmembers station.
-
- Sec. 91.213 Inoperative instruments and equipment. Airworthiness
- (a) Except as provided in paragraph (d) of
this section, no person may take off an aircraft with
inoperative instruments or equipment installed unless the
following conditions are met:
- (1) An approved Minimum Equipment List
exists for that aircraft.
- (2) The aircraft has within it a letter of
authorization, issued by the FAA
- Flight Standards district office having
jurisdiction over the area in which the operator is
located, authorizing operation of the aircraft under the
Minimum Equipment List. The letter of authorization may
be obtained by written request of the airworthiness
certificate holder. The Minimum Equipment List and the
letter of authorization constitute a supplemental type
certificate for the aircraft.
- (3) The approved Minimum Equipment List
must
- (i) Be prepared in accordance with the
limitations specified in paragraph
- (b) of this section; and
- (ii) Provide for the operation of the
aircraft with the instruments and equipment in an
inoperable condition.
- (4) The aircraft records available to the
pilot must include an entry describing the inoperable
instruments and equipment.
- (5) The aircraft is operated under all
applicable conditions and limitations contained in the
Minimum Equipment List and the letter authorizing the use
of the list.
- (b) The following instruments and
equipment may not be included in a Minimum Equipment
List:
- (1) Instruments and equipment that are
either specifically or otherwise required by the
airworthiness requirements under which the aircraft is
type certificated and which are essential for safe
operations under all operating conditions.
- (2) Instruments and equipment required by
an airworthiness directive to be in operable condition
unless the airworthiness directive provides otherwise.
- (3) Instruments and equipment required for
specific operations by this part.
- (c) A person authorized to use an approved
Minimum Equipment List issued for a specific aircraft
under Part 121, 125, or 135 of this chapter shall use
that Minimum Equipment List in connection with operations
conducted with that aircraft under this part without
additional approval requirements.
- (d) Except for operations conducted in
accordance with paragraph (a) or © of this section, a
person may takeoff an aircraft in operations conducted
under this part with inoperative instruments and
equipment without an approved Minimum Equipment List
provided
- (1) The flight operation is conducted in
a
- (i) Rotorcraft, nonturbine-powered
airplane, glider, or lighter-than-air aircraft for which
a master Minimum Equipment List has not been developed;
or
- (ii) Small rotorcraft, nonturbine-powered
small airplane, glider, or lighter-than-air aircraft for
which a Master Minimum Equipment List has been developed;
and
- (2) The inoperative instruments and
equipment are not
- (i) Part of the VFR-day type certification
instruments and equipment prescribed in the applicable
airworthiness regulations under which the aircraft was
type certificated;
- (ii) Indicated as required on the
aircrafts equipment list, or on the
- Kinds of Operations Equipment List for the
kind of flight operation being conducted;
- (iii) Required by Sec. 91.205 or any other
rule of this part for the specific kind of flight
operation being conducted; or
- (iv) Required to be operational by an
airworthiness directive; and
- (3) The inoperative instruments and
equipment are
- (i) Removed from the aircraft, the cockpit
control placarded, and the maintenance recorded in
accordance with Sec. 43.9 of this chapter; or
- (ii) Deactivated and placarded
"Inoperative." If deactivation of the
inoperative instrument or equipment involves maintenance,
it must be accomplished and recorded in accordance with
part 43 of this chapter; and
- (4) A determination is made by a pilot,
who is certificated and appropriately rated under part 61
of this chapter, or by a person, who is certificated and
appropriately rated to perform maintenance on the
aircraft, that the inoperative instrument or equipment
does not constitute a hazard to the aircraft.
- An aircraft with inoperative instruments
or equipment as provided in paragraph (d) of this section
is considered to be in a properly altered condition
acceptable to the Administrator.
- (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of
this section, an aircraft with inoperable instruments or
equipment may be operated under a special flight permit
issued in accordance with Secs. 21.197 and 21.199 of this
chapter.
-
- Sec. 91.215 ATC transponder and altitude reporting equipment
and use. Airworthiness
- (a) All airspace: U.S.-registered civil
aircraft. For operations not conducted under part 121,
127 or 135 of this chapter, ATC transponder equipment
installed must meet the performance and environmental
requirements of any class of TSO-C74b (Mode A) or any
class of TSO-C74c (Mode A with altitude reporting
capability) as appropriate, or the appropriate class of
TSO-C112 (Mode S).
- (b) All airspace. Unless otherwise
authorized or directed by ATC, no person may operate an
aircraft in the airspace described in paragraphs (b)(1)
through (b)(5) of this section, unless that aircraft is
equipped with an operable coded radar beacon transponder
having either Mode 3/A 4096 code capability, replying to
Mode 3/A interrogations with the code specified by ATC,
or a Mode S capability, replying to Mode 3/A
interrogations with the code specified by ATC and
intermode and Mode S interrogations in accordance with
the applicable provisions specified in TSO C-112, and
that aircraft is equipped with automatic pressure
altitude reporting equipment having a Mode C capability
that automatically replies to Mode C interrogations by
transmitting pressure altitude information in 100-foot
increments. This requirement applies
- (1) All aircraft. In Class A, Class B, and
Class C airspace areas;
- (2) All aircraft. In all airspace within
30 nautical miles of an airport listed in appendix D,
section 1 of this part from the surface upward to 10,000
feet MSL;
- (3) Notwithstanding paragraph (b)(2) of
this section, any aircraft which was not originally
certificated with an engine-driven electrical system or
which has not subsequently been certified with such a
system installed, balloon or glider may conduct
operations in the airspace within 30 nautical miles of an
airport listed in appendix D, section 1 of this part
provided such operations are conducted
- (i) Outside any Class A, Class B, or Class
C airspace area; and
- (ii) Below the altitude of the ceiling of
a Class B or Class C airspace area designated for an
airport or 10,000 feet MSL, whichever is lower; and
- (4) All aircraft in all airspace above the
ceiling and within the lateral boundaries of a Class B or
Class C airspace area designated for an airport upward to
10,000 feet MSL; and
- (5) All aircraft except any aircraft which
was not originally certificated with an engine-driven
electrical system or which has not subsequently been
certified with such a system installed, balloon, or
glider----
- (i) In all airspace of the 48 contiguous
states and the District of
- Columbia at and above 10,000 feet MSL,
excluding the airspace at and below
- 2,500 feet above the surface; and
- (ii) In the airspace from the surface to
10,000 feet MSL within a 10-nautical-mile radius of any
airport listed in appendix D, section 2 of this part,
excluding the airspace below 1,200 feet outside of the
lateral boundaries of the surface area of the airspace
designated for that airport.
-
- (c) Transponder-on operation. While in the
airspace as specified in paragraph (b) of this section or
in all controlled airspace, each person operating an
aircraft equipped with an operable ATC transponder
maintained in accordance with Sec. 91.413 of this part
shall operate the transponder, including Mode C equipment
if installed, and shall reply on the appropriate code or
as assigned by ATC.
- (d) ATC authorized deviations. Requests
for ATC authorized deviations must be made to the ATC
facility having jurisdiction over the concerned airspace
within the time periods specified as follows:
- (1) For operation of an aircraft with an
operating transponder but without operating automatic
pressure altitude reporting equipment having a Mode C
capability, the request may be made at any time.
- (2) For operation of an aircraft with an
inoperative transponder to the airport of ultimate
destination, including any intermediate stops, or to
proceed to a place where suitable repairs can be made or
both, the request may be made at any time.
- (3) For operation of an aircraft that is
not equipped with a transponder, the request must be made
at least one hour before the proposed operation.
-
- Sec. 91.217 Data correspondence
Airworthiness
between
automatically reported pressure altitude data and the
pilots altitude reference.
- No person may operate any automatic
pressure altitude reporting equipment
- associated with a radar beacon
transponder
- (a) When deactivation of that equipment is
directed by ATC;
- (b) Unless, as installed, that equipment
was tested and calibrated to transmit altitude data
corresponding within 125 feet (on a 95 percent
probability basis) of the indicated or calibrated datum
of the altimeter normally used to maintain flight
altitude, with that altimeter referenced to 29.92 inches
of mercury for altitudes from sea level to the maximum
operating altitude of the aircraft; or
- (c) Unless the altimeters and digitizers
in that equipment meet the standards of TSO-C10b and
TSO-C88, respectively.
-
- Sec. 91.219 Altitude
alerting system or device:
Turbojet-powered civil
- airplanes.
- (a) Except as provided in paragraph (d) of
this section, no person may operate a turbojet-powered
U.S.-registered civil airplane unless that airplane is
equipped with an approved altitude alerting system or
device that is in operable condition and meets the
requirements of paragraph (b) of this section.
- (b) Each altitude alerting system or
device required by paragraph (a) of this section must be
able to
- (1) Alert the pilot
- (i) Upon approaching a preselected
altitude in either ascent or descent, by a sequence of
both aural and visual signals in sufficient time to
establish level flight at that preselected altitude; or
- (ii) Upon approaching a preselected
altitude in either ascent or descent, by a sequence of
visual signals in sufficient time to establish level
flight at that preselected altitude, and when deviating
above and below that preselected altitude, by an aural
signal;
- (2) Provide the required signals from sea
level to the highest operating altitude approved for the
airplane in which it is installed;
- (3) Preselect altitudes in increments that
are commensurate with the altitudes at which the aircraft
is operated;
- (4) Be tested without special equipment to
determine proper operation of the alerting signals; and
- (5) Accept necessary barometric pressure
settings if the system or device operates on barometric
pressure. However, for operation below 3,000 feet AGL,
the system or device need only provide one signal, either
visual or aural, to comply with this paragraph. A radio
altimeter may be included to provide the signal if the
operator has an approved procedure for its use to
determine DH or MDA, as appropriate.
- (c) Each operator to which this section
applies must establish and assign procedures for the use
of the altitude alerting system or device and each flight
crewmember must comply with those procedures assigned to
him.
- (d) Paragraph (a) of this section does not
apply to any operation of an airplane that has an
experimental certificate or to the operation of any
airplane for the following purposes:
- (1) Ferrying a newly acquired airplane
from the place where possession of it was taken to a
place where the altitude alerting system or device is to
be installed.
- (2) Continuing a flight as originally
planned, if the altitude alerting system or device
becomes inoperative after the airplane has taken off;
however, the flight may not depart from a place where
repair or replacement can be made.
- (3) Ferrying an airplane with any
inoperative altitude alerting system or device from a
place where repairs or replacements cannot be made to a
place where it can be made.
- (4) Conducting an airworthiness flight
test of the airplane.
- (5) Ferrying an airplane to a place
outside the United States for the purpose of registering
it in a foreign country.
- (6) Conducting a sales demonstration of
the operation of the airplane.
- (7) Training foreign flight crews in the
operation of the airplane before ferrying it to a place
outside the United States for the purpose of registering
it in a foreign country.
-
- Sec. 91.221 Traffic alert and collision avoidance system equipment and use.
- (a) All airspace: U.S.-registered civil
aircraft. Any traffic alert and collision avoidance
system installed in a U.S.-registered civil aircraft must
be approved by the Administrator.
- (b) Traffic alert and collision avoidance
system, operation required. Each person operating an
aircraft equipped with an operable traffic alert and
collision avoidance system shall have that system on and
operating.
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