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Equipment requirements for day and night VFR flight, including:

Flying with inoperative equipment

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  • Chapter 9: Flight Manuals and Other Documents

    familiar in order to fly that aircraft. This chapter covers airplane flight manuals (AFM), the pilot’s operating handbook (POH), and aircraft documents pertaining to ownership, airworthiness, maintenance, and operations with inoperative equipment. Knowledge of these required documents and manuals ... aircraft or subject. They contain basic facts, information, and/or instructions for the pilot about the operation of an aircraft, flying techniques, etc., and are intended to be kept on hand for ready reference. The aircraft owner/information manual is a document…

  • Chapter 3: Identifying Hazards & Associated Risks › Aircraft Hazards › Equipage

    aircraft affect both utility and the ease with which a pilot can identify hazards. Equipment considerations include: • Redundancy–Could equipment failure affect the type of flight contemplated? For example, on a day VFR flight in Class E airspace, having only ... aircraft in IMC without an autopilot increases pilot workload. A pilot flying an aircraft in these conditions might consider aircraft without an autopilot an “A” hazard. • Inoperative Equipment–Inoperative equipment triggers an “A” hazard. For example, an inoperative landing light…

  • 14 CFR § 91.503 Flying equipment and operating information.

    Flying equipment and operating information. (a) The pilot in command of an airplane shall ensure that the following flying equipment and aeronautical charts and data, in current and appropriate form, are accessible for each flight at the pilot station ... navigational en route, terminal area, and approach and letdown chart. (5) In the case of multiengine airplanes, one-engine inoperative climb performance data. (b) Each cockpit checklist must contain the following procedures and shall be used by the flight crewmembers…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › Automation › Autopilot Systems

    forth in the PTS. It is recommended that pilots of automated aircraft occasionally disengage the automation and manually fly the aircraft to maintain stick-and-rudder proficiency. It is imperative that the pilots understand that the EFD adds ... time is the moving map meant to substitute for a VFR sectional or low altitude en route chart. Equipment Use Autopilot Systems In a single-pilot environment, an autopilot system can greatly reduce workload. [Figure 2-23] As a result…

  • 14 CFR § 91.511 Communication and navigation equipment for overwater operations.

    flight over water more than 30 minutes flying time or 100 nautical miles from the nearest shore unless it has at least the following operable equipment: (1) Radio communication equipment appropriate to the facilities to be used and able ... each of the dual items of radio communication and navigational equipment specified in paragraphs (a)(1) (i) through (iv) and (a)(2) of this section malfunctions or becomes inoperative…

  • Appendix H. SAMPLE INSTRUMENT TRAINING AND PROFICIENCY PLAN

    Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) (§ 91.207) ☐ Position Lights (§ 91.209) ☐ Transponder Requirements (§ 91.215) ☐ Inoperative Instruments and Equipment (§ 91.213) ☐ Maintenance: Note: Structure the flight portion as an out-and-back visual flight rules (VFR) cross-country (XC), with one leg focused ... instrument flight instructor, multiengine flight instructor, advanced ground instructor (AGI), basic ground instructor (BGI), instrument ground instructor (IGI)) Other: Fly instrument flight rules (IFR)/instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) at least…