What is a Special Flight Permit? Who can be on board? - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊✔✔A special
flight permit may be issued for an aircraft that may not currently meet applicable
airworthiness requirements, but is capable of safe flight, for the following purposes:
Flying aircraft to a point for repairs, alterations, maintenance, or storage.
Delivering new aircraft to the base of a purchaser or to a storage point.
Conducting production flight tests.
Evacuating an aircraft from impending danger.
Conducting customer demonstration flights in new production aircraft that have
passed or completed production flight tests.
Excess weight operations.
-(Commonly called ferry flights)
Crew required to complete flight can be on board.
What Is an Airworthiness Directive? Who Issues it? Is it mandatory? - 🔷ANSWERS
🖊✔✔Issued by the FAA in response to deficiencies and/or unsafe conditions found
in aircraft, engines, propellers, or other aircraft parts. Compliance with an AD is
mandatory.
What inspections does an airplane need? How often? - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊✔✔Annual
inspection-12 calendar months
VOR-30 days
100 hour-if for hire
Altimeter/pitot static-24 calendar months
Transponder-24 calendar months
ELT-12 calendar months, replace after 1/2 of useful life or 1 hr of use.
Class A VFR wx minimums - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊✔✔Not Applicable, must be on IFR flight
plan in class A airspace. (FL180-FL600)
, Class B WFR wx minimums - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊✔✔Visibility: 3 statute miles
Distance from Clouds: Clear of clouds
Class C wx minimums - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊✔✔Visibility: 3 statute miles
Distance from Clouds: 2000 feet horizontally , 1000 feet above, 500 feet below
Class D wx minimums - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊✔✔Visibility: 3 statute miles
Distance from Clouds: 2000 feet horizontally , 1000 feet above, 500 feet below
Class E wx minimums (Less than 10,000 feet MSL) - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊✔✔Visibility: 3
statute miles
Distance from Clouds: 2000 feet horizontally , 1000 feet above, 500 feet below
Class E wx minimums (At or above 10,000 feet MSL) - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊✔✔Visibility: 5
statute miles
Distance from Clouds: 1 statute mile horizontally, 1000 feet above, 1000 feet below
Class G wx minimums (1,200 feet or less above surface regardless of MSL altitude
during the day) - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊✔✔Visibility: 1 statute mile
Distance from Clouds: Clear of Clouds
Class G wx minimums (1,200 feet or less above surface regardless of MSL altitude
during the night) - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊✔✔Visibility: 3 statute miles
Distance from Clouds: 2000 feet horizontally , 1000 feet above, 500 feet below
Class G wx minimums (More than 1,200 above the surface but less than 10,000 MSL
during the day) - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊✔✔Visibility: 1 statute mile
Distance from Clouds: 2000 feet horizontally , 1000 feet above, 500 feet below
Class G wx minimums (More than 1,200 above the surface but less than 10,000 MSL
during the night) - 🔷ANSWERS 🖊✔✔Visibility: 3 statute miles
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