COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS
AVIATION ADVISORY CIRCULAR
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Notice to Air Operators and Pilots Operating Single Pilot IFR and Carrying
Passengers Under CAR 703
PURPOSE
This Commercial & Business Aviation Advisory Circular (CBAAC) is
intended to inform air operators of an
exemption issued pursuant to subsection 5.9(2) of the Aeronautics Act,
exempting Canadian air operators from the requirements of subsection 723.86(1) of the
Commercial Air Service Standards (CASS) made pursuant to section 703.86 of
the Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs).
REFERENCES
Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) 1999-109 issued 07-05-99.
BACKGROUND
Subsection 723.86(1) of the Commercial Air Service Standards (CASS)
establishes the minimum single pilot Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) requirements for
air operators operating an aeroplane with passengers on board in IFR flight without
a second-in-command. These requirements stipulate that the pilot shall have a minimum
of 1,000 hours of flight time which shall include, if the type to be flown is
multi-engined, 100 hours on multi-engined aeroplanes. In addition, the pilot shall
have 50 hours of simulated or actual flight in Instrument Meteorological Conditions
(IMC), and a total of 50 hours flight time on the aeroplane type.
A Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA 1999-109) was approved by the Part VII
Commercial Air Service Operations (CASO) Technical Committee in June of 1999.
Subsequently a request was received for an
exemption to the current CAR in order to expedite the provision of the proposed
amendment to the air operator community.
ACTION
An exemption has
been issued and is conditional on where the operator is authorized for grouping of
aeroplane types for Pilot Proficiency Check renewals. The purpose of the exemption is
to permit pilots-in-command to acquire the 50 hours of flight time on the
aeroplane type as required by subsection 723.86(1) of the CASS by using the total
of the flight time gained on similar aeroplanes grouped as a single type for the
purposes of Pilot Proficiency Check (PPC).
FUTURE DISPOSITION
The exemption will
eventually be superseded by the revised CASS 723.86(1) as amended by NPA 1999-109.
M.R. Preuss
Director
Commercial & Business Aviation
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(CBAAC) are intended to provide information and guidance regarding operational
matters. A CBAAC may describe an acceptable, but not the only, means of
demonstrating compliance with existing regulations. CBAACs in and of themselves
do not change, create any additional, authorize changes in, or permit deviations
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