Definition
STAND BY
Means the controller or pilot must pause for a few seconds, usually to attend to other duties of a higher priority. Also means to wait as in “stand by for clearance.” The caller should reestablish contact if a delay is lengthy. “Stand by” is not an approval or denial.
Source: FAA Pilot/Controller Glossary (verbatim from the Federal Aviation Regulations).
Where This Term Is Used
- 14 CFR § 91.1071 — § 91.1071 Crewmember: Tests and checks, grace provisions, training to accepted standards.
- 14 CFR § 91.205 — § 91.205 Powered civil aircraft with standard U.S. airworthiness certificates: Instrument and equipment requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.23 — § 91.23 Truth-in-leasing clause requirement in leases and conditional sales contracts.
- 14 CFR § 91.1717 — § 91.1717 Operating requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.1709 — § 91.1709 Training program approval.
- 14 CFR § 91.1611 — § 91.1611 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 115—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in Specified Areas of the Sanaa Flight Information Region (FIR) (OYSC).
- 14 CFR § 91.1507 — § 91.1507 Fuel tank system inspection program.
- 14 CFR § 91.1603 — § 91.1603 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 112—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Territory and Airspace of Libya.
- 14 CFR § 91.1605 — § 91.1605 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 77—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Baghdad Flight Information Region (FIR) (ORBB).
- 14 CFR § 91.1609 — § 91.1609 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 114—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Damascus Flight Information Region (FIR) (OSTT).
- 14 CFR § 91.1613 — § 91.1613 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 107—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Territory and Airspace of Somalia.
- 14 CFR § 91.1615 — § 91.1615 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 79—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Pyongyang Flight Information Region (FIR) (ZKKP).
- 14 CFR § 91.1617 — § 91.1617 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 117—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Tehran Flight Information Region (FIR) (OIIX).
- 14 CFR § 91.1619 — § 91.1619 Special Federal Aviation Regulation No. 119—Prohibition Against Certain Flights in the Kabul Flight Information Region (FIR) (OAKX).
- 14 CFR § 91.1701 — § 91.1701 Applicability.
- 14 CFR § 91.1705 — § 91.1705 Required pilot training.
- 14 CFR § 91.1417 — § 91.1417 CAMP: Mechanical interruption summary report.
- 14 CFR § 91.1109 — § 91.1109 Aircraft maintenance: Inspection program.
- 14 CFR § 91.1115 — § 91.1115 Inoperable instruments and equipment.
- 14 CFR § 91.1415 — § 91.1415 CAMP: Mechanical reliability reports.
- 14 CFR § 91.1427 — § 91.1427 CAMP: Manual requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.1431 — § 91.1431 CAMP: Continuing analysis and surveillance.
- 14 CFR § 91.1443 — § 91.1443 CAMP: Airworthiness release or aircraft maintenance log entry.
- 14 CFR § 91.1050 — § 91.1050 Employment of former FAA employees.
- 14 CFR § 91.1047 — § 91.1047 Drug and alcohol misuse education program.
- 14 CFR § 91.1053 — § 91.1053 Crewmember experience.
- 14 CFR § 91.1057 — § 91.1057 Flight, duty and rest time requirements: All crewmembers.
- 14 CFR § 91.1062 — § 91.1062 Duty periods and rest requirements: Flight attendants.
- 14 CFR § 91.1065 — § 91.1065 Initial and recurrent pilot testing requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.1069 — § 91.1069 Flight crew: Instrument proficiency check requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.1041 — § 91.1041 Aircraft proving and validation tests.
- 14 CFR § 91.1017 — § 91.1017 Amending program manager’s management specifications.
- 14 CFR § 91.1015 — § 91.1015 Management specifications.
- 14 CFR § 91.1013 — § 91.1013 Operational control briefing and acknowledgment.
- 14 CFR § 91.715 — § 91.715 Special flight authorizations for foreign civil aircraft.
- 14 CFR § 91.815 — § 91.815 Agricultural and fire fighting airplanes: Noise operating limitations.
- 14 CFR § 91.803 — § 91.803 Part 125 operators: Designation of applicable regulations.
- 14 CFR § 91.801 — § 91.801 Applicability: Relation to part 36.
- 14 CFR § 91.609 — § 91.609 Flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders.
- 14 CFR § 91.607 — § 91.607 Emergency exits for airplanes carrying passengers for hire.
- 14 CFR § 91.523 — § 91.523 Carry-on baggage.
- 14 CFR § 91.515 — § 91.515 Flight altitude rules.
- 14 CFR § 91.511 — § 91.511 Communication and navigation equipment for overwater operations.
- 14 CFR § 91.415 — § 91.415 Changes to aircraft inspection programs.
- 14 CFR § 91.411 — § 91.411 Altimeter system and altitude reporting equipment tests and inspections.
- 14 CFR § 91.409 — § 91.409 Inspections.
- 14 CFR § 91.327 — § 91.327 Aircraft issued a special airworthiness certificate in the light-sport category: Operating limitations.
- 14 CFR § 91.326 — § 91.326 Exception to operating certain aircraft for the purposes of flight training, flightcrew member checking, or flightcrew member testing.
- 14 CFR § 91.323 — § 91.323 Increased maximum certificated weights for certain airplanes operated in Alaska.
- 14 CFR § 91.317 — § 91.317 Provisionally certificated civil aircraft: Operating limitations.
- 14 CFR § 91.217 — § 91.217 Data correspondence between automatically reported pressure altitude data and the pilot’s altitude reference.
- 14 CFR § 91.213 — § 91.213 Inoperative instruments and equipment.
- 14 CFR § 91.215 — § 91.215 ATC transponder and altitude reporting equipment and use.
- 14 CFR § 91.223 — § 91.223 Terrain awareness and warning system.
- 14 CFR § 91.227 — § 91.227 Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out equipment performance requirements.
- 14 CFR § 91.307 — § 91.307 Parachutes and parachuting.
- 14 CFR § 91.309 — § 91.309 Towing: Gliders and unpowered ultralight vehicles.
- 14 CFR § 91.225 — § 91.225 Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out equipment and use.
- 14 CFR § 91.211 — § 91.211 Supplemental oxygen.
- 14 CFR § 91.207 — § 91.207 Emergency locator transmitters.
- 14 CFR § 91.203 — § 91.203 Civil aircraft: Certifications required.
- 14 CFR § 91.180 — § 91.180 Operations within airspace designated as Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum airspace.
- 14 CFR § 91.169 — § 91.169 IFR flight plan: Information required.
- 14 CFR § 91.145 — § 91.145 Management of aircraft operations in the vicinity of aerial demonstrations and major sporting events.
- 14 CFR § 91.146 — § 91.146 Passenger-carrying flights for the benefit of a charitable, nonprofit, or community event.
- 14 CFR § 91.147 — § 91.147 Passenger-carrying flights for compensation or hire.
- 14 CFR § 91.155 — § 91.155 Basic VFR weather minimums.
- 14 CFR § 91.167 — § 91.167 Fuel requirements for flight in IFR conditions.
- 14 CFR § 91.175 — § 91.175 Takeoff and landing under IFR.
- 14 CFR § 91.131 — § 91.131 Operations in Class B airspace.
- 14 CFR § 91.108 — § 91.108 Use of supplemental restraint systems.
- 14 CFR § 91.107 — § 91.107 Use of safety belts, shoulder harnesses, and child restraint systems.
- 14 CFR § 61.47 — § 61.47 — Status of an Examiner Who Is Authorized by the Administrator to Conduct Practical Tests
- 14 CFR § 61.51 — § 61.51 — Pilot Logbooks
74 sections reference this term in their FAR Decoded content.