Motion picture and television operations manual and waiver application
FAA Form 7711-2 and operations manual · 14 CFR 91.119; 91.903
When you need it
Filming ops
What the FAA does with it
Your Flight Standards office issues the certificate of waiver (FAA Form 7711-1), submitted by You submit FAA Form 7711-2 with the manual to your Flight Standards office.
What you'll need to provide
Your organization, filming area, security and permission methods, aircraft, pilot qualifications, communications and recall signals, and the waiver dates
What the FSDO looks for
Inspectors evaluate submissions using FAA Order 8900.1 guidance and, for certificate holders, SAS Data Collection Tools.
- 8900.1: V3 C3 S5 Issue a Certificate of Waiver for Motion Picture and Televis (CHG 654, Current)
- Advisory Circulars: None listed
- DCTs: none mapped
Common reasons submissions are returned
- Aircraft data (make, model, serial, N-number) inconsistent across the application, the document and the registration certificate
- Outdated revision of a referenced AC, MMEL or template
- Missing signatures, dates or revision control on each page
- Missing required attachments: Your organization, filming area, security and permission methods, aircraft, pilot qualifications, communications and recall signals, and the waiver dates
- Submitting to the wrong office or by the wrong method (expected: You submit FAA Form 7711-2 with the manual to your Flight Standards office)
General issues drawn from the requirements above, not statistics.
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Sources: the regulations, ACs and 8900.1 sections listed above (public FAA documents). Guides explain requirements; they are not the document and not legal advice.
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