The FAA will not issue a Special Flight Permit for which scenario?

The FAA will not issue a Special Flight Permit for which scenario?

• A. Operating an aircraft with an AD requiring compliance before further flight and contains no waivers.
• B. Flying an aircraft with an overdue inspection to a base at which the inspection can be performed.
• C. Operating an aircraft in a weight in excess of its maximum certified take-off weight.
• D. Conducting customer demonstration flights in a new production aircraft that have satisfactory completed production flight tests.

Answer: (A)

Special Flight Permits are used to let an aircraft fly when it doesn’t meet all normal airworthiness requirements, but the flight serves a safe, necessary purpose such as moving to a place for maintenance or testing. They cannot override mandatory directives that say the aircraft must not fly until a condition is met. If an aircraft has an active airworthiness directive that requires compliance before further flight and there are no waivers, the aircraft would not be permitted to fly at all until the directive is complied with. A Special Flight Permit cannot authorize flight under those circumstances because that would bypass the required corrective action. Moving a plane to a base to perform an overdue inspection is a typical use of a Special Flight Permit, since the flight is aimed at achieving airworthiness by completing the required inspection. Likewise, after production flight tests have been satisfactorily completed, a new production aircraft can be flown for customer demonstrations under the appropriate permit conditions because the aircraft has demonstrated acceptable performance and the flight serves legitimate testing or demonstration purposes.

Special Flight Permits are used to let an aircraft fly when it doesn’t meet all normal airworthiness requirements, but the flight serves a safe, necessary purpose such as moving to a place for maintenance or testing. They cannot override mandatory directives that say the aircraft must not fly until a condition is met.

If an aircraft has an active airworthiness directive that requires compliance before further flight and there are no waivers, the aircraft would not be permitted to fly at all until the directive is complied with. A Special Flight Permit cannot authorize flight under those circumstances because that would bypass the required corrective action.

Moving a plane to a base to perform an overdue inspection is a typical use of a Special Flight Permit, since the flight is aimed at achieving airworthiness by completing the required inspection. Likewise, after production flight tests have been satisfactorily completed, a new production aircraft can be flown for customer demonstrations under the appropriate permit conditions because the aircraft has demonstrated acceptable performance and the flight serves legitimate testing or demonstration purposes.