Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 800 - Airport Corporation › Chapter 10 - OPERATIONS › Subchapter 00 - N/A › Part 1 - Aeronautics Regulations › Section 800-RICR-10-00-1.4 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. The definitions set forth herein are
				 derived from, and shall be interpreted to be consistent with, Title 14 of the
				 Code of Federal Regulations ("C.F.R."), the Uniform Aeronautical Regulatory Act
				 ("UAR"), and R.I. Gen. Laws §§
										1-4-1 et seq., and
				 1-2-3.1.
				 The following words and phrases shall have meanings as set forth below:
1. "Aeronautics" means transportation by
				 Aircraft, Air Instruction, the Operation, repair, or maintenance of Aircraft,
				 and the design, Operation, repair, or maintenance of Airports or Landing
				 Areas.
2. "Aeronautics inspector"
				 means an employee of RIAC charged by the Director to make recommendations and
				 enforce the provisions of the UAR and these regulations.
3. "Aircraft" means any contrivance now known
				 or invented, used, or designed for navigation of, or flight in, the air, except
				 a Parachute or other contrivance designed for air navigation but used primarily
				 as safety equipment.
4. "Air
				 instruction" means the imparting of aeronautical information by any aviation
				 instructor. Air Instruction includes any individual engaged in providing, or
				 offering to provide, instruction in Aeronautics, in flying, in ground subjects,
				 or in both, either with or without compensation or other reward, without
				 advertising his or her occupation, without calling his or her facilities "Air
				 School" or any equivalent term, and without employing or using other
				 instructors.
5. "Air school" means
				 any Person engaged in giving, offering to give, or advertising, representing,
				 or holding him or herself out as giving, with or without compensation or other
				 award, instruction in Aeronautics, flying, in ground subjects, or in
				 both.
6. "Airport" means any
				 Landing Area that provides facilities for the shelter, supply, and repair of
				 Aircraft and which, as to size, design, surface, marking, equipment, and
				 management meets the minimum requirements established in §
											1.6     of this Part.
7. "Airport manager" means the Person
				 designated as the one responsible for the proper operation of the Airport, in
				 conformance with Federal Requirements, Rhode Island Laws, and the Aeronautics
				 Regulations and Operations Directives of the Airport.
8. "Balloon" means a lighter than air
				 Aircraft that is not engine-driven and that sustains flight through the use of
				 either gas buoyancy or an airborne heater and may be further characterized as a
				 Manned Free Balloon or an Unmanned Free Balloon.
9. "B.A.S.E jumping" means an activity that
				 employs an initially packed parachute to jump from fixed objects. B.A.S.E. is
				 an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which on can
				 jump: Building, Antenna, Span, and Earth (cliff).
10. "Careless, reckless, and/or negligent
				 acts" means any act that may endanger property and/or the safety of Persons on
				 the ground and/or in the air. Such acts shall include:
a. Aircraft Operations other than for the
				 purpose of air navigation on any part of the surface of an Airport used by
				 Aircraft for air commerce (including areas used by those Aircraft for receiving
				 or discharging Persons or cargo),
b. operating an Aircraft in a manner that is
				 a hazard to navigation;
c. failure
				 to obtain approvals or otherwise comply with FAA Requirements, and/or the
				 regulations and directives issued by RIAC, and/or
d. any other acts included under  14 C.F.R. §
													91  (1989).
11.
				 "Certified aircraft" means any Aircraft for which an Aircraft certificate other
				 than a registration certificate has been issued by the government of the United
				 States.
12. "Civil aircraft" means
				 any Aircraft other than a Public Aircraft.
13. "Common traffic advisory frequency" or
				 "CTAF" means a radio frequency used for air-to-air communication designated for
				 the purpose of carrying out Airport advisory practices while operating to or
				 from an Airport without an operating control tower or where the tower is not
				 Operational.
14. "Dealer in
				 aircraft" or "Aircraft dealer" means any Person who engages in a business, a
				 substantial part of which consists of the manufacture, selling, or exchanging
				 of Aircraft and who is registered as a dealer with the federal
				 government.
15. "Director" means
				 the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Rhode Island Airport
				 Corporation.
16. "Drop zone" or
				 "DZ" means any pre-determined area upon which parachutists or objects land
				 after making an intentional Parachute jump as defined in
				  14 C.F.R. §
												105.3  (2001).
17. "Flight school" means the same as Air
				 School.
18. "Flying club" means any
				 number of Persons (other than one individual) who, for neither profit nor
				 reward, owns, leases, or uses one or more Aircraft for the purpose of
				 instruction, pleasure, or both.
19.
				 "Heliport" or "Helistop" means any landing area that is proposed or used for
				 the landing and takeoff of helicopters.
20. "Jumper" means any Person Skydiving or
				 Parachute Jumping.
21. "Landing
				 area" means an Airport, or any area of land, water, or both, otherwise referred
				 to as a Landing Field, which is used or is made available for the landing and
				 take-off of Aircraft, which may or may not provide facilities for the shelter,
				 supply, and repair of Aircraft, and which, as to size, design, surface,
				 marking, equipment, and management meets the minimum requirements established
				 in §
											1.6     of this Part from time to
				 time by the Director.
22. "Military
				 aircraft" means Public Aircraft Operated in the service of the United States
				 Army, Air Force, National Guard, Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard.
23. "Movement area" means the runways,
				 taxiways, and other areas of an airport which are used for taxiing or hover
				 taxiing, takeoff, and landing of Aircraft, exclusive of loading ramps or
				 Aircraft parking areas, as defined in
				  14 C.F.R. §
												139.5  (2013).
24. "Operate" or "Operation" means, with
				 respect to Aircraft, to use, cause to use or authorize to use an Aircraft, for
				 the purpose of engine start, movement on the ground (taxi), or air navigation
				 including the piloting of Aircraft, with or without the right of legal control
				 (as Owner, lessee, or otherwise).
25. "Operations directives" means
				 requirements issued by RIAC that pertain to the internal operations of a public
				 use Airport. Operations Directives shall be posted in accordance with R.I. Gen.
				 Laws §
											1-4-11 in the main Aeronautics office of the Director at least five (5) days before
				 the effective date and mailed or e-mailed to users of the Airport that are
				 impacted by the directives.
26.
				 "Operator" means a Person who Operates or is in actual physical control of an
				 Aircraft.
27. "Owner" means the
				 legal title holder or any person, firm, co-partnership, association, or
				 corporation having the lawful possession or control of an Aircraft under a
				 written agreement.
28. "Parachute"
				 means a device used or intended to be used to retard the fall of a body or
				 object through the air.
29.
				 "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, entity,
				 governmental subdivision, or public or private organization of any
				 character.
30. "Pilot in command"
				 means a properly licensed Pilot who is directly responsible for, and is the
				 final authority, as to the Operation of the Aircraft as defined in  14 C.F.R. §
												91  (1989) Subpart A and  14 C.F.R. §
												107  (2016).
31. "Public aircraft" means an Aircraft used
				 exclusively in the governmental service.
32. "Private restricted landing area" "PRLAs"
				 means any Landing Area that is not open for public use, including but not
				 limited to Landing Fields, heliports and helistops.
33. "RIAC" means the Rhode Island Airport
				 Corporation. For purposes of  29 U.S.C. §
												28 -9.4-2(e) only, a "political
				 subdivision" of the State of Rhode Island, as defined by those
				 sections.
34. "Skydiving" or
				 "Parachute jumping" means the descent of a Person to the surface from an
				 Aircraft in flight, when he/she intends to use, or uses, a Parachute during all
				 or part of that descent.
35.
				 "Skydiving/Parachuting jump center" means an area and its facilities and
				 organization where Skydiving and/or Parachuting is regularly conducted and for
				 which approval has been issued by RIAC.
36. "Unmanned aircraft" or "UA" means an
				 Aircraft operated without the possibility of direct human intervention from
				 within or on the Aircraft.
37.
				 "Unmanned aircraft system" or "UAS" means a UA and its associated elements that
				 is capable of sustained flight in the atmosphere, including communication links
				 and the components that control the UA, that are required for the pilot in
				 command to operate safely and efficiently in the national airspace system. The
				 UA may be remotely controlled or may fly autonomously through
				 software-controlled flight plans in their embedded systems working in
				 conjunction with GPS.
38.
				 "Ultralights" means Aircraft vehicles including gliders, sailplanes, motor
				 gliders, paragliders, motorized paragliders, hang gliders and any other
				 Aircraft vehicle that meets the definition set forth in
				  14 C.F.R. §
												103.1  (1982).