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Westwind Air Service Operation Specifications VFR
Topics Westwind Air Service • Legal Basis • Concept • Regulations • Operation Specification Paragraphs
Legal Basis Westwind Air Service Title 49 USC 44701 requires each air carrier certificate to include the terms, conditions, and limitations reasonably necessary to ensure safety in air transportation
Concept Westwind Air Service • Used to be one page • OpSpecs provide an effective method for establishing safety standards that address a wide range of variables. • OpSpecscan be adapted to a specific certificate holder or operator’s class and size of aircraft and type and kinds of operations. • OpSpecscan be tailored to suit an individual certificate holder or operator’s needs. Only those authorizations, limitations, standards, and procedures that are applicable to a certificate holder or operator need to be included
Regulations Westwind Air Service FAR 119 119.5(f) A person conducting operations under more than one paragraph of §§119.21, 119.23, or 119.25 shall conduct those operations in compliance with- (2) The appropriate authorizations, limitations, and procedures specified in the operations specifications for each kind of operation
Westwind Air Service FAR 119 119.7(a) Each certificate holder's operations specifications must contain— (1) The authorizations, limitations, and certain procedures under which each kind of operation, if applicable, is to be conducted; and (2) Certain other procedures under which each class and size of aircraft is to be operated
Westwind Air Service FAR 135 135.23(c) Copies of the certificate holder's operations specifications or appropriate extracted information, including area of operations authorized, category and class of aircraft authorized, crew complements, and types of operations authorized
Westwind Air Service FAR 135 • 135.293(a) No certificate holder may use a pilot, nor may any person serve as a pilot, unless, since the beginning of the 12th calendar month before that service, that pilot has passed a written or oral test, given by the Administrator or an authorized check pilot, on that pilot's knowledge in the following areas— • (1) The appropriate provisions of parts 61, 91, and 135 of this chapter and the operations specifications and the manual of the certificate holder;
Operation Specifications - General Westwind Air Service • Four Parts • A • B • C • D • Some paragraphs contain information only.
Parts Westwind Air Service • Part A - General Authorizations • What you can do. • Part B - Enroute Authorizations • How you get there. • Part C – Terminal Instrument Authorizations • What you do when you get there. • Part D - Maintenance
Part A Paragraphs Westwind Air Service
Part A – General Authorizations Westwind Air Service Includes the issuance and applicability, definitions, authorizations and limitations summary, exemptions and deviations, flight training equipment and training location authorizations, and personnel listings
Part B Paragraphs Westwind Air Service
Part B – Enroute Authorizations Westwind Air Service Includes IFR/VFR authorization, types of RNAV navigation and areas of operation.
Part C Paragraphs Westwind Air Service
Part C – Terminal Instrument Authorizations Westwind Air Service Includes instrument approaches, take off and landing minima. Part C does not apply to VFR operations
Part D Paragraphs Westwind Air Service
Part D – Maintenance Authorizations Westwind Air Service Includes aircraft listing by N#, MEL authorization and maintenance inspection program.