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Common Language		11
Quality System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	.	11
Accident Prevention and Flight Safety Programme		11
Additional Crew Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	.	11
Ditching		12
Carriage of Persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		. 12
Crew Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	.	12
Responsibilities of the Commander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		. 13
Authority of the Commander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		. 14
Admission to the Flight Deck		14
Unauthorized Carriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		14
Portable Electronic Devices		14
Drugs and Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		. 14
Endangering Safety		14
Documents to Be Carried . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	.	14
Manuals to Be Carried . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		15
Additional Information and Forms to Be Carried		15
Information to Be Retained on the Ground		16
Power to Inspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		16
Production and Preservation of Documents and Recordings . . . . . . . . . . . .		16
Leasing of Aeroplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		17
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	.	19
Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		. 20

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Applicability

EU-OPS Part 1 contains and defines the requirements for the operation of civil aircraft in Commercial Air Transport (CAT) by any Operator whose principal place of business is in an EASA Member State. It does not apply to:

•Aeroplanes used in military, police or customs and excise operations, nor

•Parachute dropping and fire fighting flights including positioning flights for that purpose even though persons are carried on board for that purpose; nor

•Flights for the purpose of aerial work providing not more than 6 persons engaged in the aerial work (excluding the crew) are carried in the aeroplane.

Where the use of a Synthetic Training Device (STD) such as a flight simulator is used to replace an aeroplane for training purposes, such STDs are to be approved in accordance with CS-STD and users approved by the authority.

Common Language

Operators are required to ensure that all crew members (flight crew and cabin crew) are able to communicate (with each other) in a common language, and that they are able to understand the language in which those parts of the Operations Manual containing the crew members’ duty, is written.

Quality System

The Operator is required to establish a Quality System to ensure safe operational practices and airworthy aeroplanes. A Quality Manager is to be appointed to ensure compliance with the quality system. Compliance monitoring must include a feed-back system to the Accountable Manager (see Chapter 3) who has responsibility to the Authority for compliance with the requirements of the AOC.

Accident Prevention and Flight Safety Programme

Each Operator is required to establish and maintain an Accident Prevention and Flight Safety programme, which may be integrated with the Quality System. The programme is to be administered by a person appointed by the Operator. Such a programme is to include:

•Risk awareness.

•Occurrence reporting.

•Incident and Accident evaluation.

•Flight data monitoring.

The programme manager is responsible for the implementation of proposals resulting from the programme and for monitoring the effectiveness of such proposals.

Additional Crew Members

Where additional crew members (e.g. personnel engaged in checking; non-operating crew or where animals are carried, veterinarian personnel) are carried on operational flights, the Operator is to ensure that such personnel are properly trained and proficient in the execution of their duty. Passengers must be able to distinguish between cabin crew and additional crew.

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Ditching

Ditching, or the deliberate alighting of an aeroplane on the surface of the sea, is a possibility where aircraft are operated over the sea at a distance where in the event of engine failure the aircraft cannot reach land suitable for an emergency landing. To minimize the risk from ditching, operators are not to operate aeroplanes with a passenger seating capacity more than 30 at a distance from land greater than 120 minutes flying time at cruising speed, or 400 NM whichever is less, unless the aeroplane complies with the requirements of the applicable airworthiness code.

Carriage of Persons

Operators are to ensure that persons (crew and passengers) are only carried in parts of aeroplanes, which are designed for the accommodation of persons. The Commander may grant temporary access to other parts of the aeroplane for the purpose of taking action for the safety of the aeroplane, or persons, animals or goods which are in such areas providing the area is that to which designed access is possible.

Crew Responsibilities

Crew members are responsible for the discharge of their duties in respect of the safety of the aeroplane and its occupants. The discharge of such duties is to be in accordance with the procedures laid down in the Operations Manual (OM) including where necessary, use of the Operator’s occurrence reporting system. Specifically:

•Any fault or malfunction including an emergency situation, which could affect the airworthiness or safe operation of the aeroplane, is to be reported to the Commander.

•Any incident that endangered or could have endangered the safety of operations is to be reported to the Commander.

Crews must make use of the Operator’s occurrence reporting schemes. (A copy of which must be made available to the Commander)

Clearly, if the occurrence mentioned above has already been reported to the Commander, duplication of the report is not necessary.

A crew member is not to present him or herself for duty on an aeroplane:

•If under the influence of any drug that may affect his/her faculties in a manner contrary to safety.

•Until a reasonable period of time has elapsed after deep water diving.

•Until a reasonable period of time has elapsed after blood donation.

•If he or she is in any doubt as to his or her ability to accomplish the assigned duty.

•If he or she knows or suspects that he or she is suffering from fatigue to the extent where safety may be endangered.

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