DGAC Costa Rica MCAR OPS 1-Subpart Q LIMITATIONS OF FLIGHT TIME AND TIME OF SERVICE AND REST REQUIREMENTS 30-June-2009
Contents Contents... 2 SUBPART Q LIMITATIONS OF FLIGHT TIME AND TIME OF SERVICE AND REST REQUIREMENTS... 3 MRAC OPS 1.1080 RAC OPS 1.1080 General Provisions... 3 MRAC OPS 1.1085 Definitions... 3 MRAC OPS 1.1090 State Responsibilities... 4 MRAC OPS 1.1095 Operator Responsibilities... 4 MRAC OPS 1.1100 Responsibilities of crew members of flight... 5 MRAC OPS 1.1105 Crew of Flight Crew and Cabin Crew.... 5 MRAC OPS 1.1110 Limitations of flight times and periods of service... 5 MRAC OPS 1.1115 Maximum hours of service for crew members of flight and cabin... 5 MRAC OPS 1.1120 Maximum period of service flight crew of flight and cabin... 6 MRAC OPS 1.1125 Flight crew performed with increased and over in flight... 7 MRAC OPS 1.1130 Minimum rest periods... 7 MRAC OPS 1.1135 Decisions that the pilot-in-command can take... 7 MRAC OPS 1.1140 Miscellaneous provisions... 8 MRAC OPS 1.1145 Records... 8 MRAC OPS 1.1147 Time Limitations in Service: Dispatchers... 9 MRAC OPS 1.1148 Limitations of service time: Personnel maintenance... 9 Page 2
SUBPART Q LIMITATIONS OF FLIGHT TIME AND TIME OF SERVICE AND REST REQUIREMENTS MRAC OPS 1.1080 RAC OPS 1.1080 General Provisions These provisions apply to members of the flight crew, cabin crew, dispatchers and personnel maintenance of aircraft operating in public transport or work commercial air. All commercial air service operators should be displayed in their operations manuals limitations time of flight and service crew flight and cabin as well as the maximum and minimum periods of service and rest respectively to applicable staff. The flight time limitations and maximum periods of service not may exceed those established, similarly here, periods of rest can not be lower than those established in this regulation. operators and flight crew members, personal technician earth are individually responsible for that are not exceeded maximum flight time of service as set forth herein. MRAC OPS 1.1085 Definitions Operator. Person, organization or enterprise he engaged in or offering to engage in the operation of aircraft. Member of the crew. Person to whom the operator assigns obligations to be met on board an aircraft during a flight service. Member of cabin crew. Crewmember that, in the interests of safety of passengers, fulfill the obligations assigned by the operator or pilot in command of the aircraft, but will not act as a member of the flight crew. Member of the flight crew. Member of the crew, holder of the corresponding License to assigned duties essential to the operation of an aircraft during a period of flight service. Augmented flight crew. Flight crew consists of more than the minimum number required to operate the aircraft and allows each member of the crew of flight can leave the position assigned and be replaced by another member of the flight crew properly qualified for rest in flight. Flight time - aircraft. Total time elapsed since the plane starts to move with the purpose of taking off until it finally stops at end of the flight. "Flight time" as here defined is synonymous with time "between chocks" 'general use and is counted from the moment when the plane begins to move with the purpose of taking off until it is completely stopped the Finalize the flight. Period of service. Period begins when the operator requires the members of the flight crew or cabin show or start a service and ends when the person is free of any service. Period of flight service. Period beginning when required a crew member is present at the service, on a flight or series of flights, and ends when the aircraft finally stops at the end of the last flight of which it forms part as a member of the crew. Service. Any task that requires the operator to make members of the flight crew or cabin, including, for example, the flight service, administrative work, instruction and travel to join his post. Standby. Certain period of time during which the operator requires the member of the flight crew or cabin is available for you to assign a specific service is no rest period in between. Period of rest. Period continuous and determined time following and / or preceding the service, during which members of the flight crew or cabin are free from all service. Page 3
Suitable Accommodation. A furnished and single bedroom that offers the opportunity to rest in properly. Home Base. The place designated by the operator to the crew member from which the member normally starts and ends a period of service or a series of periods of service. Unforeseen operational circumstance. An unplanned event, such as unpredicted weather conditions, equipment malfunction or air traffic delay is beyond the control of the operator. Presentation time. The time at which the operator requires crewmembers are presented to provide services. Working hours. A list provided by the operator the times at which It requires that a member of the crew carrying out duties. "Working hours" as defined herein, is synonymous with "schedule", "schedule service", "pattern of services" and "shifts service". Positioning. Transfer of a crew member which it is not to functions from one place to another, as a passenger, at the request of the operator. " Travel to join the post" as defined herein, is synonymous with "Positioning". MRAC OPS 1.1090 State Responsibilities The purpose of this subpart is to ensure that members of flight crews and cabin stay alert enough to conduct its operations with a satisfactory level of performance and safety in all circumstances. The first essential is to arrange for each member of the crew of flight and cabin is properly resting when you start a service period of flight and during the flight, be alert enough to perform their functions with a satisfactory level of performance and safety in all normal and abnormal situations. MRAC OPS 1.1095 Operator Responsibilities (d) (e) (f) Operators must take into account in their operations manuals all elements of this subpart that are appropriate for their operations. If not projected operations can be handled within the published limitations, you can apply for an exemption. In such a case, and before it is approved, the operator must demonstrate to the FAA that exemption may give an equivalent level of safety operational and have considered the objections based on security reasons operational. Work schedules should be prepared and published with sufficient time for members of the flight crew and cabin have the opportunity to plan adequate rest. It should be given due consideration to the cumulative effects of extended service hours interspersed with minimum rest and avoid work schedules make adult seriously scheme established sleep and work. Working hours must cover at least a period of 28 days. The flights are planned to be completed within a flight duty period permissible, taking into account the time needed for pre - flight service, flight times and rotation and the nature of the operation. The minimum rest periods needed to provide adequate rest should be based on the actual operation. To avoid any difficulty in performing member of the flight crew or cabin, it must be given the opportunity to eat when the flight duty period is more than 4 hours. The operator must designate a home base for each member of the flight crew and cabin, from which it will begin and end normally a period of service or a series of periods of service. The basis of address must be assigned with some degree of permanence. The operator should not require a member of the flight crew to perform operations on an airplane is known or suspected that a member of the flight crew is fatigued to the point that can be compromised flight safety. Page 4
MRAC OPS 1.1100 Responsibilities of crew members of flight No member of the flight crew must perform operations on an airplane when you know you are tired or feel incapacitated to such an extent that could be compromised flight safety. The members of the flight crew must make the best use possible of the facilities and opportunities are provided for rest and meals and should plan and use their rest periods to ensure their full recovery. MRAC OPS 1.1105 Crew of Flight Crew and Cabin Crew. In the text that follows the limitations applicable to specified operations of the members of the flight crew and cabin crew. MRAC OPS 1.1110 Limitations of flight times and periods of service Maximum flight hours (1) The maximum number of flying hours not can exceed: (1) 8 hours in any flight service period. (2) 32 hours for seven days (7) of which the seventh must be rested on its base (3) 100 Hours for 28 consecutive days; (4) 250 Hours for 90 consecutive days. (5) 1000 hours for 365 consecutive days. MRAC OPS 1.1115 Maximum hours of service for crew members of flight and cabin The hours of service may not exceed: (1) 12 hours scheduled over a period of 24 hours may be extended to 14 hours no more than once in seven consecutive days; or (2) 60 hours scheduled for 7 consecutive days. The service includes all tasks performed at the request of the operator. These include, but are not limited to: preparing pre-flight; the conduct of the flight (whether or not air transport commercial); Post-flight measurements; the instruction given or received (classroom, flight simulator or airplane); Office hours / time management; And travel to join the position. The Standby should be included to the extent that can cause fatigue. Page 5
MRAC OPS 1.1120 Maximum period of service flight crew of flight and cabin (d) (e) (f) The maximum period of flight service must be 14 hours. This limitation should allow variation to account aspects that can have an impact on fatigue, as are the number of planned sectors, local time that the service starts, the scheme resting and sleeping relative to the circadian rhythm member of the flight crew, the organization of working time and increasing the flight crew. The times at which the crew has to work must reflect realistically the time required to complete the obligations preflight relating to safety and service (if applicable), and a margin standard of 30 minutes must added at the end of the flight time to be able to complete the checks and records. For registration purposes, the time of the previous report to the flight should be counted as service and as a service flight, and the margin of time after the flight as a service. The flight duty periods may be extended in unforeseen operational circumstances by no more than 2 hours, only the judgment of the pilot in command. Before making this decision, the pilot in command must be satisfied that all members of the crew who have to perform operations on the airplane feel capable of it. Operators must contemplate when preparing the crew scheduling the peculiarity of its operations, such as: (1) The type of aircraft and its equipment; (2) The probability of operational delays; (3) The characteristics of the route (eg traffic density, availability of navigational aids, communications difficulties and the need to fly at high levels in unpressurized aircraft, training activities); (4) The proportion of day and night flight of the service performed, taking into account criteria that tend to balance Crewmembers; (5) The accommodation available to provide the crew with a break; (6) System stability programming services (dependent on the availability of reserve personnel) (7) The number of take-offs and landings; (8) The flight without autopilot; Y (9) Any future changes, the impact of which has proven to be relevant. Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in this subpart, a crewmember not fly, nor the operator require you to do so, if that or it have good grounds to believe that the crewman is suffering reasons or excessive fatigue, taking into account the circumstances of the flight particularly to be carried out, it is likely to come to accumulate excessive fatigue during it. Page 6
MRAC OPS 1.1125 Flight crew performed with increased and over in flight The composition and number of members of the crew flight flying transported in relief and quality of facilities rest provided must determine how much can extend the limitations of the basic flight duty period. You must keep a good balance between service subdivision flight and rest. The number of members of the cabin crew must be determined taking into account resting facilities that are provided and other parameters related to the operation of the flight. The operator must ensure that members notified the flight crew and cabin before the beginning of the rest period preceding the flight, about the role that is required to play (as main crew or relay) of so that they can plan their rest before the flight. For this type of operation, the operator should consider that no pilot may fly as a flight crewmember more than: (1) 8 hours in flight functions (2) 12 hours as a member of the flight crew. (3) 100 hours in a month (4) 310 hours on ninety consecutive days (5) 1,200 hours in the last twelve months. MRAC OPS 1.1130 Minimum rest periods (d) (e) (f) The minimum rest period immediately before starting a period of flight duty may not be less than 8 hours. Arrangements for rest to be made taking into account the effects of crossing the uses schedules and night operations. Must longer periods of rest granted regularly to avoid fatigue cumulative. The operator to provide a period of adequate rest must provide the crew with a housing convenient. Minimum rest periods may be reduced in operational circumstances unforeseen by no more than 2 hours, only the judgment of the pilot in command. The travel time of a member of the flight crew or cabin in transit between a resting place and the point at which it has submitted to work is not counted as service, even when it is a factor that contributes to the fatigue. Excessive travel time immediately before starting a flight duty period could therefore cause a decrease in the capacity of member of the crew flight or cabin service product counter fatigue and, therefore, should be considered when decider in what place should take the preflight rest. MRAC OPS 1.1135 Decisions that the pilot-in-command can take The pilot in command, in their view, considering the circumstances special that could lead to unforeseen levels of fatigue, and after discussion with members of the flight crew or cabin affected, can reduce actual period of service flight and / or prolong a period minimum rest (see MRAC OPS 1.1130 (d), in order to eliminate any effects detrimental to affect flight safety. The pilot in command must inform the operator of its decision to extend or reduce the service or rest. Page 7
MRAC OPS 1.1140 Miscellaneous provisions Standby (1) When Standby at the airport followed by a period of service flight, the relationship between said Standby and flight service must be defined assigned. In this case, Standby at the airport will be considered if it can lead to fatigue, as part of a tour of duty and should be taken into account to calculate the minimum rest period preceding a subsequent flight service. (2) When members of the flight crew and cabin crew is required to be Standby in accommodation provided by the operator, should adequate rest facilities provided. Availability When required the crew members of flight and cabin are available to establish contact with them, for a short period of time and in order to receive instructions concerning a possible change in working hours, this requirement should not prevent members of the flight crew and cabin enjoy a rest period before presented to where begin their service. The time spent in this case availability should not be considered as a service. Travel to take up the post all the time used to take up the post is counted as service and this time, followed by a period of operations without intermediate rest, also counts as flight service. However, the trip to join the post should not be considered part of operations when planning or calculating a flight duty period. MRAC OPS 1.1145 Records (d) For the operator is assured that the scheme for the management of fatigue is working as intended and as approved, must be kept for three months the records of the services performed and periods of rest, in order to facilitate inspection staff authorized operator and state audit of the operator. The operator must ensure that is included in these records for each member of the flight crew and cabin, at least the following: (1) start, duration and end of each service period of flight; (2) the start, duration and termination of each service period; (3) rest periods; and (4) flight hours; The operator must also guarder records of cases in which a pilot in command has taken a decision (as described above) If the decision is to be applied for similar reasons in more than two percent of the time, when flying along a path or route configuration in particular is very likely that the purpose of this guidance has not been met and undue fatigue may arise. Arrangements should be made to modify the itinerary or arrangements for appointing the crew to reduce the frequency of these events. The CAA may require in addition that submit copies of certain records. The members of the flight crew must keep a personal record of their daily flight hours. Page 8
MRAC OPS 1.1147 Time Limitations in Service: Dispatchers An operator shall establish the daily period of service for a dispatcher, so it starts at a time that will allow for proper familiarization with existing weather conditions along the route, before dispatching any aircraft. It must remain in the work shift until each aircraft dispatched by him complete his flight or fly beyond its jurisdiction, or has been relieved by another qualified dispatcher. Except emergency cases due to circumstances beyond control: (1) No operator can program a dispatcher for more than ten hours consecutive service. (2) If a dispatcher is scheduled for more than ten hours of service in twenty - four consecutive hours the operator will provide a rest period of at least eight hours. (3) Each dispatcher must be relieved of all duty for at least one full calendar day in any period of seven consecutive days. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs and of this article, an operator can under FAA approval, schedule a dispatcher for more than ten hours of service in a period of twenty four hours, if the dispatcher service is released by the operator at least eight hours during each twenty four consecutive hours. MRAC OPS 1.1148 Limitations of service time: Personnel maintenance Maintenance personnel or an operator who performs maintenance on its aircraft, shall enjoy at least one calendar day of rest for every seven consecutive days. Page 9