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Crew, delegation, and multi-person operations

Most rules so far assumed one person flying alone. This chapter is what changes when a crew runs the operation — who holds final authority, who may actually work the controls, what a visual observer does and cannot do, and the one-aircraft-per-person line that caps it all.

In this chapter

• +Why an operation has one remote pilot in command at any moment, what that final authority carries, and how the designation may pass between certificated pilots
• +Who may manipulate the controls — a certificated pilot, or someone under a remote PIC’s direct supervision — and how the three crew roles divide
• +How a visual observer extends the crew’s line of sight, and why no one person may run more than one aircraft at a time