These Team Flights look like they are using the Special Aircraft Requirement (SAR) aircraft. Must the baton holder satisfy the SAR when he flies?
A. No. The Team Flight is technically independent of the Special Aircraft Requirement, although it may make sense to have the baton pilot simultaneously fulfill the SAR. Note that the Team Flight may ask you to fly a longer flight than the SAR: if you want to accomplish both goals, you should fulfill the longer requirement. (It is probably a good idea to pick a SAR aircraft whose distance requirement is the same as the Team Flight category’s distance requirement.) The distances for the Comet and Vega are longer (250nm) for the Special Aircraft Requirement than for the Team Flights. If you want to combine the Special Aircraft Requirement with the Team Flight, you will want to fly 250nm – so that you will qualify under both rules. However if your Golden Age Flight is led by a DC-3, then you may fly as a participating pilot in either the Comet or Vega for 150nm and gain the Team Flight bonus even though your flight will not qualify for the SAR. Practically speaking, these Team Flights rep
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