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EU OPS (965) Subpart N
Ops 1.940 Composition of flight crew
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I was wondering if there are regulations for when a flight requires both a pilot and copilot. I always assumed a copilot is required once civilian passengers are aboard, but when I recently was a passenger in South-African and South-American sight seeing flights, the pilot was always flying alone. Flights in europe however always had a pilot and copilot. Is this regulated by laws or can the pilot / airline company decide it on their own? pilots regulations
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A flight requires pilot & copilot when the aircraft being flown requires it. A multi-crew aeroplane is one that requires a flight crew of at least two pilots. One of them is the pilot-in-command (the captain) and the other is the co-pilot (or first officer). All jet air transport aeroplanes and the vast majority of turbine powered air transport aircraft and business jet are multi-crew aeroplanes.