Atlas / Legal Interpretations / 2017-025
FAA Chief Counsel · Legal Interpretation
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What is a Legal Interpretation?
The FAA Office of the Chief Counsel issues Legal Interpretations in response to specific questions about how 14 CFR applies in a given situation. They're authoritative agency reads of the regulation — pilots, CFIs, and operators cite them to resolve ambiguous compliance questions. Not preceedential like court opinions, but binding on the agency.
14 CFR sections this interpretation addresses
Click into any section to see its current text. The interpretation's PDF on drs.faa.gov has the full prose.
- § 23.140 Not in our cache — verify on eCFR
- § 91.205 Not in our cache — verify on eCFR
- § 91.209 Not in our cache — verify on eCFR
- § 91.213 Not in our cache — verify on eCFR
- § 91.903 Not in our cache — verify on eCFR
- § 91.905 Not in our cache — verify on eCFR
- § 23.1401 Not in our cache — verify on eCFR
- § 23.2530 Not in our cache — verify on eCFR
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