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Aviation encompasses all
the activities relating to airborne devices created by human ingenuity,
generally known as aircraft. These activities include the organizations
and regulatory bodies as well as the personnel related with the
operation of aircraft and the industries involved in airplane
manufacture, development, and design.
General aviation includes all non-scheduled civil flying, both private
and commercial. Because of the huge range of activities, it is difficult
to cover general aviation with a simple description — general aviation
may include business flights, private aviation, flight training,
ballooning, parachuting, gliding, hang gliding, aerial photography,
foot-launched powered hang gliders, air ambulance, crop dusting, charter
flights, traffic reporting, police air patrols and forest fire fighting.
Each country regulates aviation differently, but general aviation
usually falls under different regulations depending on whether it is
private or commercial and on the type of equipment involved.
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