Definition of kite

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Anyone care to answer why in the world the FAA would bother to define kite in 91.1, but then never use it again anywhere else in 14CFR (that I can find at least).

Kite means a framework, covered with paper, cloth, metal, or other material, intended to be flown at the end of a rope or cable, and having as its only support the force of the wind moving past its surfaces.
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It seems to me I remember being told it is illegal to fly a kite within (5?) miles of an airport. Don't know where to find it, don't know if it is true.
 
Diana said:
4) Within five miles of the boundary of any airport.

Gee, does that mean I can't fly kites on my farm anymore? :confused:
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Talk about regulations being in the buried locked filing cabinet in the unused basement behind the welded shut door with the "beware of the leopard" sign on it.

I have this really neat 6ft x 4ft kite that just has to weigh more than 5 lbs. I also at least use to have, shall we say, substantial amounts of strong string for it... :goofy:

And we use to be TOLD to go up to the runway to fly the custom built estes powered rockets. Go figure. :dunno:
 
So, does this mean that the Ford dealer that is 1 mile from the airport can not fly his advertising balloon? Most of the time it is 250-300' AGL, which would put it about 1100-1300 MSL.
 
Diana said:
4) Within five miles of the boundary of any airport.

Gee, does that mean I can't fly kites on my farm anymore? :confused:
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(a) This part prescribes rules governing the operation in the United States, of the following:
(2) Except as provided for in §101.7, any kite that weighs more than 5 pounds and is intended to be flown at the end of a rope or cable.

Your Kites weight more the 5 lbs???

Big kite.

Missa
 
"Kite" appears 14 times in 14CFR1-199; once in the 14CFR1.1 definition area, and thirteen additional times in 14CFR101 ("Moored Balloons, Kites,..."). It appears in 14CFR1.1 because the definition is needed for 14CFR101.
 
Ed Guthrie said:
"Kite" appears 14 times in 14CFR1-199; once in the 14CFR1.1 definition area, and thirteen additional times in 14CFR101 ("Moored Balloons, Kites,..."). It appears in 14CFR1.1 because the definition is needed for 14CFR101.
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I apologize, I was looking at my ASA FAR/AIM, and just noticed that it doesn't have the entire 14CFR series, only pertinent ones.

Where would one be able to get the entire 14CFR?
 
NickDBrennan said:
Anyone care to answer why in the world the FAA would bother to define kite in 91.1, but then never use it again anywhere else in 14CFR (that I can find at least).
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Last summer there was a guy gliding in a big delta wing kite towed from a cable by motorboat to JUST under 500 feet MSL over good the sized Lake Samm where we like to practice with both seaplanes at surface level and above plus with land planes at a little higher altitude -it's right near the much bigger Lake Washington. The lakes are big playgrounds for petromotive mammalians of all kinds from jetskis and water skiers to powered parachutes and seaplanes.

Some of the seaplane pilots out of the big seaplane base nearby to the north made quite a stink with the FAA and the local news picked up on it with TV footage a few nights. Haven't seen or heard of the kiter since and never did figgure if he was legal or not.
 
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