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The waiver system in depth

Chapter 2 introduced the certificate of waiver as the way to fly outside a standard rule; this is the full treatment — the safety standard the FAA applies, exactly which rules can be waived and which carve-outs apply, how you build the safety case, and how the whole application runs end to end.

In this chapter

• +The § 107.200 safety standard — a waiver is granted only when the FAA finds the proposed operation can be conducted safely, and only to the extent the certificate specifies
• +Which Part 107 rules § 107.205 lets you waive, and the carve-outs that limit even those
• +How to build the safety justification and run the application end to end, and how a waiver differs from an airspace authorization