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Is it legal to board a plane dressed like a flight crew member if you are not a crew member?

Just out of curiosity: Are flight crew suits reserved to certain persons or can just be worn freely, provided one doesn't use company logos or other protected brand markings. If the country does matter, then in UK. (Picture source) Are the insignia…
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Is it legal to fly over Vatican City?

In February 1922 one or more aircraft flew over the Vatican low enough to disturb the papal conclave then underway. In response, authorities forbade flights over all of Rome until the conclave was concluded. About seven years later, the Lateran…
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Do Federal Regulations really require compliance with all crewmember instructions?

On commercial flights, we're frequently told that all passengers are "required to comply with lighted signs and placards, and all crew member instructions". But when it comes to the CFRs, the closest I can find is 14 CFR 121.571 (a) Each…
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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 Resource Management and how it relates to software…
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Are life jackets mandatory on planes that will never fly over water bodies?

Supposing I'm a regional carrier and my routes never pass over water bodies (sea or lakes which are over a certain size). Am I obliged to carry life jackets on my plane?
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Why do people say aviation regulations are written in blood?

I have heard it said that all aviation regulations are "written in blood". I think this means that every rule in the book exists because someone died - and there was a lesson learned. Is this accurate? Is there anything else to the story of this…
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What is the legal situation if a passenger dies in mid-flight?

Reading this question, a new one came to my mind. That question is explaining how an airline behaves in that unfortunate situation. However, what are the legal consequences? Concretely I would like to understand the following situations?: Only a…
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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 show that this is a pattern - that US, European,…
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Climb/Descent or vectoring in other controller's airspace without point out

I'm an ATC trainee in an ACC. Few days ago, I handed off an aircraft to the adjacent approach control, and the app. controller made it descend and vectored while it was still in our airspace; ACC's airspace. The STAR procedure starting from the…
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What regulatory bodies are there?

Since planes traverse the Earth, and a country may deem another country's airline unsafe, yet that unsafe airline is deemed safe in its country, what is the hierarchy of the aviation regulatory bodies from the highest global level down to a state or…
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Is "ALL CAPS"-handwriting mandatory in aviation?

All caps handwriting increase clarity and visual impact, engineers, architects, people from military mostly write in all caps. I know lot of old school-engineers that handwrite in all caps, because in technical drawing it is mandatory. Is writing in…
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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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How much are aircraft nose paintings restricted by regulations?

It's actually surprising to see these old paintings on aircraft noses: WW2 nose art, source How much were (and are) these paintings generally restricted or allowed by law, civil regulation and military rules in countries like US, Russia, India,…
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Are jets deliberately excluded from the "Complex airplane" definition?

A jet aircraft seems for sure very complex as such. But, referring Wikipedia, a "complex aircraft" (as legally defined) has: A retractable landing gear Flaps and A controllable pitch propeller And there is no propeller in a jet. What are the…
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In the Philippines' Civil Aviation Regulation Part 7, what does this part mean?

In the Philippines' Civil Aviation Regulation Part 7 it says individual certificate of airworthiness of the first production aircraft under the type certificate I want to know what does "first production aircraft under the type certificate"…
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