[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR121.99]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                               (CONTINUED)

 

PART 121_OPERATING REQUIREMENTS: DOMESTIC, FLAG, AND SUPPLEMENTAL 

OPERATIONS--Table of Contents

 

       Subpart E_Approval of Routes: Domestic and Flag Operations

 

Sec. 121.99  Communication facilities.



    (a) Each certificate holder conducting domestic or flag operations 

must show that a two-way radio communication system or other means of 

communication approved by the Administrator is available at points that 

will ensure reliable and rapid communications, under normal operating 

conditions over the entire route (either direct or via approved point-

to-point circuits) between each airplane and the appropriate dispatch 

office, and between each airplane and the appropriate air traffic 

control unit, except as specified as Sec. 121.351(c).

    (b) For the following types of operations, the communications 

systems between each airplane and the dispatch office must be 

independent of any system operated by the United States:

    (1) All domestic operations;

    (2) Flag operations in the 48 contiguous States and the District of 

Columbia; and

    (3) After March 12, 2001, flag operations outside the 48 contiguous 

States and the District of Columbia.



[Doc. No. 28154, 62 FR 13256, Mar. 19, 1997]