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§ 91.1033 

within limits according to a loading 
schedule or other approved method; 

(6) The registration number of the 

aircraft or flight number; 

(7) The origin and destination; and 
(8) Identification of crewmembers 

and their crew position assignments. 

(d) The pilot in command of the air-

craft for which a load manifest must be 
prepared must carry a copy of the com-
pleted load manifest in the aircraft to 
its destination. The program manager 
must keep copies of completed load 
manifest for at least 30 days at its prin-
cipal operations base, or at another lo-
cation used by it and approved by the 
Administrator. 

(e) Each program manager is respon-

sible for providing a written document 
that states the name of the entity hav-
ing operational control on that flight 
and the part of this chapter under 
which the flight is operated. The pilot 
in command of the aircraft must carry 
a copy of the document in the aircraft 
to its destination. The program man-
ager must keep a copy of the document 
for at least 30 days at its principal op-
erations base, or at another location 
used by it and approved by the Admin-
istrator. 

(f) Records may be kept either in 

paper or other form acceptable to the 
Administrator. 

(g) Program managers that are also 

certificated to operate under part 121 
or 135 of this chapter may satisfy the 
recordkeeping requirements of this sec-
tion and of § 91.1113 with records main-
tained to fulfill equivalent obligations 
under part 121 or 135 of this chapter. 

[Docket No. FAA–2001–10047, 68 FR 54561, 
Sept. 17, 2003, as amended by Docket FAA– 
2016–9154, Amdt. 91–348, 82 FR 39664, Aug. 22, 
2017] 

§ 91.1029

Flight scheduling and locat-

ing requirements. 

(a) Each program manager must es-

tablish and use an adequate system to 
schedule and release program aircraft. 

(b) Except as provided in paragraph 

(d) of this section, each program man-
ager must have adequate procedures es-
tablished for locating each flight, for 
which a flight plan is not filed, that— 

(1) Provide the program manager 

with at least the information required 
to be included in a VFR flight plan; 

(2) Provide for timely notification of 

an FAA facility or search and rescue 
facility, if an aircraft is overdue or 
missing; and 

(3) Provide the program manager 

with the location, date, and estimated 
time for reestablishing radio or tele-
phone communications, if the flight 
will operate in an area where commu-
nications cannot be maintained. 

(c) Flight locating information must 

be retained at the program manager’s 
principal base of operations, or at 
other places designated by the program 
manager in the flight locating proce-
dures, until the completion of the 
flight. 

(d) The flight locating requirements 

of paragraph (b) of this section do not 
apply to a flight for which an FAA 
flight plan has been filed and the flight 
plan is canceled within 25 nautical 
miles of the destination airport. 

§ 91.1031

Pilot in command or second 

in command: Designation required. 

(a) Each program manager must des-

ignate a— 

(1) Pilot in command for each pro-

gram flight; and 

(2) Second in command for each pro-

gram flight requiring two pilots. 

(b) The pilot in command, as des-

ignated by the program manager, must 
remain the pilot in command at all 
times during that flight. 

§ 91.1033

Operating information re-

quired. 

(a) Each program manager must, for 

all program operations, provide the fol-
lowing materials, in current and appro-
priate form, accessible to the pilot at 
the pilot station, and the pilot must 
use them— 

(1) A cockpit checklist; 
(2) For multiengine aircraft or for 

aircraft with retractable landing gear, 
an emergency cockpit checklist con-
taining the procedures required by 
paragraph (c) of this section, as appro-
priate; 

(3) At least one set of pertinent aero-

nautical charts; and 

(4) For IFR operations, at least one 

set of pertinent navigational en route, 
terminal area, and instrument ap-
proach procedure charts. 

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