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  • Chapter 14: Airport Operations › Collision Avoidance › Scanning Techniques for Traffic Avoidance

    scanning process. These limitations may include: • Reduced scan frequency due to concentration on flight instruments or tablets and distraction with passengers. • Blind spots related to high-wing and low-wing aircraft in addition to windshield posts and sun visors. Prevailing…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › The Decision-Making Process › The Passengers

    Passengers can also be pilots. If no one is designated as pilot in command (PIC) and unplanned circumstances arise, the decision-making styles of several self-confident pilots may come into conflict. Pilots also need to understand that non-pilots ... risk elimination. While a pilot may feel comfortable with the risk present in a night IFR flight, the passengers may not. A pilot employing SRM should ensure the passengers are involved in the decision-making and given tasks and duties…

  • 14 CFR § 91.146 Passenger-carrying flights for the benefit of a charitable, nonprofit, or community event.

    Passenger-carrying flights for the benefit of a charitable, nonprofit, or community event. (3) The aircraft has a maximum of 30 seats, excluding each crewmember seat, and a maximum payload capacity of 7,500 pounds; (4) The flight ... during day VFR conditions; (7) Reimbursement of the operator of the aircraft is limited to that portion of the passenger payment for the flight that does not exceed the pro rata cost of owning, operating, and maintaining the aircraft…

  • 14 CFR § 91.519 Passenger briefing.

    Passenger briefing. (a) Before each takeoff the pilot in command of an airplane carrying passengers shall ensure that all passengers have been orally briefed on— (1) Smoking. Each passenger shall be briefed on when, where, and under what conditions smoking ... prohibited. This briefing shall include a statement, as appropriate, that the Federal Aviation Regulations require passenger compliance with lighted passenger information signs and no smoking placards, prohibit smoking in lavatories, and require compliance with crewmember instructions with regard to these…

  • 14 CFR § 91.1035 Passenger awareness.

    Passenger awareness. (a) Prior to each takeoff, the pilot in command of an aircraft carrying passengers on a program flight must ensure that all passengers have been orally briefed on— (1) Smoking: Each passenger must be briefed on when, where ... under what conditions smoking is prohibited. This briefing must include a statement, as appropriate, that the regulations require passenger compliance with lighted passenger information signs and no smoking placards, prohibit smoking in lavatories, and require compliance with crewmember instructions with…

  • Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 4. ATC Clearances and Aircraft Separation › 4-4-15. Use of Visual Clearing Procedures and Scanning Techniques

    process. These limitations may include: (a) Reduced scan frequency due to concentration on flight instruments or tablets and distraction with passengers. (b) Blind spots related to high-wing and low-wing aircraft in addition to windshield posts and sun visors…