CAPR 60-1 2-5 Flight Release.htm

RE:     CAPR 60-1

2-5. Flight Release. The FRO is responsible for authorizing a CAP pilot to fly as pilot-in-command in CAP aircraft. The FRO is expected to use his/her best efforts to verify appropriate information prior to giving a flight release, including reliance on information verbally provided by the CAP pilot requesting a flight release. The FRO is not a dispatcher and is not responsible for the actual conduct of the flight. They are responsible for confirming the aircraft safely arrived at its destination if an FAA flight plan is not used (see paragraph 2-5e).

 

a. A flight release is required for all CAP flight activities.

b. FROs are CAP senior members designated in writing as Flight Release Officers by the Executive Director, region or wing commander, or their designee. FROs must have passed the on-line CAP FRO training course and possess a sound knowledge of the CAP flight management program prior to being appointed as an FRO.

c. FROs may not release a flight on which they are PIC, crew or passenger.

d. Flights may be released on a CAPF 99, CAP Flight Release Log, CAPF 104, Mission Flight Plan/Briefing Form, or CAPF 84, Counterdrug Mission Flight Plan/Briefing Form, (as appropriate). For Supervised Missions the IC or CMD is also considered a FRO and may release any flight related to that mission.

e. All flights released on CAPF 99 require the date, N-number, Mission Symbol, PICs, passengers, estimated flight time and route of flight recorded prior to release. The FRO must be notified of any changes made prior to departure. If an FAA flight plan will not be used, the following additional steps are required:

(1) An estimated landing time must be recorded on CAPF 99 prior to release.

(2) The FRO is responsible for initiating missing aircraft procedures two hours after the estimated landing time if not notified the flight was safely concluded.

f. Flight activities involving multiple flights at the same location and on the same day may be released on CAPF 99 without passenger, flight time and estimated landing time information provided each participating aircraft and PIC combination is identified in advance and that someone on the ground at the activity site tracks aircraft occupants and flight times for reporting back to the FRO at day’s end.

g. At the conclusion of all flights, the PIC (or IC/CMD of a Supervised Mission) is responsible for ensuring all flight hours have been recorded in the NHQ CAP WMIRS System.

h. The appropriate Mission Symbol must be used on all flight release documents, logs and entries into WMIRS or other electronic systems. Currently approved Mission Symbols are listed on the latest CAPF 99.

i. A copy of each CAPF 99 will be forwarded to the wing DO and State Director by the 5th of the following month. FROs not releasing any flights during the month will forward a negative report to the wing DO and State Director.