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Does a Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA) allow a fire department to conduct training flights? Specifically, initial and recurrent pilot training and training for emergency incident responses?

A public agency is allowed to operate under the COA as a public aircraft operator to conduct training exercises as a component/tool of the exercise. 

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