JohnAJohnson
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Can someone point me to the regulation that covers smoking (cigarettes, cigars, pipes) in GA aircraft? Thanks
Can someone point me to the regulation that covers smoking (cigarettes, cigars, pipes) in GA aircraft? Thanks
Can someone point me to the regulation that covers smoking (cigarettes, cigars, pipes) in GA aircraft? Thanks
I'm not sure which FAR says you have to follow the placards...
Which FAR would that be?...for GA, part 91, not 121.The only regulation I know of is the one that says you have to listen to the PIC and when I am a PIC there is no smoking inside of my aircraft.
Which FAR would that be?...for GA, part 91, not 121.
oooo!...look at you.Not sure if it a FAR but it is a regulation in my aircraft.
Which FAR would that be?...for GA, part 91, not 121.
Hey neat, its a new "Bash the smoker" thread.
FWIW - if someone insists on smoking in your plane, you can always say that the FAA has disallowed smoking in all airplanes.
Don't forget about AD's...there's one on my Maule that requires a "no smoking" placard. Apparently somebody dropped a cigarette in one years ago, and barely got on the ground before the airplane burned. YEEE-HA!There is no FAR governing smoking in Part 91 aircraft. Further, there is no FAR requiring compliance with placards outside of those required by the aircraft POH/TCDS. However, 14 CFR sections 91.3(a) gives the PIC the authority to regulate smoking in the aircraft s/he commands under Part 91.
I didn't allow smoking in my plane either, but there's no need to be so abrupt about it. I don't know anyone that would say "You don't want smoking in here? Too bad, I'm gonna smoke anyways."
But while on the subject of smoking, I have two very shiny ash trays which came from the pilot and co-pilot seat backs of my Skyhawk. When I replaced the backs several years ago we didn't cut the allocated space to re-insert the ash trays. No Smoking in N7872G.
Anyone who might need(want) them can have them.
Someone once said that your right to extend your arm ends where my nose begins. I feel the same about smoking -- I do not believe one's right to smoke extends to places where others may be required to go, and I'm pretty well decided that nobody's right to go to publicly accessible places requires that they risk their health to do so. IOW, if you want to smoke, fine, just do it in private where nobody else has to breathe it as a condition of exercising their right of free movement (and their right of free movement doesn't include someone else's private property).SPersonally while I do feel that non-smokers have the right not to inhale second hand smoke. I also feel that smokers have a right to smoke.
Smoking is allowed in my plane. I just have to open the window before you light up so the smoke will not obscure my vision.
Someone once said that your right to extend your arm ends where my nose begins. I feel the same about smoking -- I do not believe one's right to smoke extends to places where others may be required to go, and I'm pretty well decided that nobody's right to go to publicly accessible places requires that they risk their health to do so. IOW, if you want to smoke, fine, just do it in private where nobody else has to breathe it as a condition of exercising their right of free movement (and their right of free movement doesn't include someone else's private property).
In any event, to focus this on our primary interest (airplanes), I don't think there's anything about anyone's right to smoke that trumps my 91.3(b) authority over what happens in my plane. Just as in my home, anyone who wants to smoke in my plane is going to have to step outside to do so.
Besides the discomfort of the non smokers... I just wouldnt allow it in my airplane. Does anyone really smoke in their own aircraft still?
Seems too easy to start fires in a small area. Not to mention there are a lot of folks with O2 bottles on board.