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AA.I.A.S5

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Comply with operations specifications, management specifications, and letters of authorization, if applicable.

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  • Chapter 9: Flight Manuals and Other Documents › Minimum Equipment Lists (MEL) and Operations With Inoperative Equipment

    equipment must be placarded INOPERATIVE. All small rotorcraft, non-turbine powered airplanes, gliders, or lighter-than-air aircraft operated under 14 CFR part 91 are eligible to use the maintenance deferral provisions of 14 CFR, part 91, section ... However, once an operator requests an MEL, and a Letter of Authorization (LOA) is issued by the FAA, then the use of the MEL becomes mandatory for that aircraft. All maintenance deferrals must be accomplished in accordance with the terms…

  • Chapter 2: Ground Operations › Ground Operations

    While the ADM process does not eliminate errors, it helps the pilot recognize errors and enables the pilot to manage the error to minimize its effects. These steps are: 1. Identifying personal attitudes hazardous to safe flight; 2. Learning behavior ... assessment skills; 5. Using all resources; and 6. Evaluating the effectiveness of one’s own personal ADM skills. Ground Operations The airport ramp can be a complex environment with airport personnel, passengers, trucks, other vehicles, aircraft, and errant people…

  • Chapter 2: Ground Operations › Risk and Resource Management › Resource Management

    certified as an instrument flight rules (IFR) pilot. 3. Delay the flight. 4. Cancel the flight. 5. Drive. Resource Management Familiarity with crew resource management (CRM) and single-pilot resource management (SRM) enables a crew or pilot to manage ... flight. In general aviation, SRM comes into play more often. The focus of SRM is on the single-pilot operation. SRM integrates the following: ⦁ Situational Awareness ⦁ Human Resource Management ⦁ Task Management ⦁ Aeronautical Decision-making (ADM) Situational Awareness Situational awareness…

  • Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › RISK › Crew Resource Management (CRM) and Single-Pilot Resource Management

    Crew Resource Management (CRM) and Single-Pilot Resource Management While CRM focuses on pilots operating in crew environments, many of the concepts apply to single-pilot operations. Many CRM principles have been successfully applied to single-pilot aircraft ... development of Single-Pilot Resource Management (SRM). SRM is defined as the art and science of managing all the resources (both on-board the aircraft and from outside sources) available to a single pilot (prior to and during flight…

  • Chapter 15: Airspace › Air Traffic Control and the National Airspace System › Operating Rules and Pilot/Equipment Requirements

    Operating Rules and Pilot/Equipment Requirements The safety of flight is a top priority of all pilots and the responsibilities associated with operating an aircraft should always be taken seriously. The air traffic system maintains a high degree of safety ... well, as evidenced by the fact that the country has the safest aviation system in the world. All aircraft operating in today’s National Airspace System (NAS) has complied with the CFR governing its certification and maintenance; all pilots operating…

  • 14 CFR Part 91, Appendix G to Part 91—Operations in Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM) Airspace

    applicant in writing. Section 3. Operator Authorization (a) Except as specified in Section 9 of this appendix, authority for an operator to conduct flight in airspace where RVSM is applied is issued in operations specifications, a Letter of Authorization ... management specifications issued under subpart K of this part, as appropriate. To issue an RVSM authorization under this section, the Administrator must find that the operator's aircraft have been approved in accordance with Section 2 of this appendix…