(a) This part prescribes special airport traffic patterns and airport traffic areas. It also prescribes special air traffic rules for operating aircraft in those traffic patterns and traffic areas and in the vicinity of airports described in this part.

(b) Unless otherwise authorized by ATC, each person operating an aircraft shall do so in accordance with the special air traffic rules in this part in addition to other applicable rules in part 91 of this chapter.

[Doc. No. 1580, 28 FR 6715, June 29, 1963, as amended by Amdt. 93-10, 33 FR 4096, Mar. 2, 1968; Amdt. 93-15, 34 FR 2603, Feb. 26, 1969; Amdt. 93-33, 41 FR 14879, Apr. 8, 1976; Amdt. 93-64, 56 FR 65662, Dec. 17, 1991]