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Part 121

Part 121 . Operating Requirements Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations Subpart A General. Part 121 . Subpart A: General Subpart E: Approval of Routes Domestic and Flag Operations Subpart F: Approval of Areas and Routes Supplemental Operations Subpart G: Manual Requirements

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  1. Part 121 Operating Requirements Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations Subpart A General

  2. Part 121 Subpart A: General Subpart E: Approval of Routes Domestic and Flag Operations Subpart F: Approval of Areas and Routes Supplemental Operations Subpart G: Manual Requirements Subpart H: Aircraft Requirements Subpart J: Special Airworthiness Requirement

  3. 121.1 Applicability (Rules governing) • Domestic, flag, supplemental operations who hold or required to hold • Air Carrier Certificate • Operating Certificate • Each person employed or used by certificate holder • Maintenance • Preventive maintenance • Alteration of aircraft

  4. 121.1 Manual Requirements • Each person applying for provisional approval of an Advanced Qualification Program • Curriculum • Curriculum segment • Portion of curriculum segment • Each person employed performing • Training • Qualification functions • Evaluation functions

  5. 121.2 Compliance Schedule • (Pre Jan 19, 1996) Certificate holder conducting passenger-carrying operations with • Nontransport turbopropeller airplanes • Passenger seat configuration 10 – 19 seats • Transport turbopropeller airplanes • Passenger seat configuration 20 – 30 seats • Turbojet engine airplanes • Passenger seat configuration 1 – 30 seats

  6. 121.2 Compliance Schedule • See web page

  7. 121.7 Definitions • Adequate Airport • Airplane operator may list with approval from FAA • Meets landing limitations of 121.197 • Airport is either • Meeting requirements of Part 139 • Military airport that is active and operational • ETOPS Alternate Airport • Listed in certificate holder’s operations specifications • Designated in flight release for used in event of diversion during ETOPS

  8. 121.7 Definitions • ETOPS • Extended Operations • Allows twin-engine airlines to fly long-distance routes previously off-limits • ETOPS: Turbine powered twin engine • Area beyond 60 minutes from an adequate airport • Computed using one-engine inoperative • ETOPS: Turbine powered more than 2 engine • Area beyond 180 minutes from an adequate airport • Computed using one-engine inoperative

  9. 121.7 Definitions • Maximum Diversion Time • ETOPS planning • Longest diversion time authorized for flight

  10. 121.15 Carriage of Drugs • Certificate holder in violation of • 91.19(a) • Operation is basis for suspension or revoking of certificate

  11. Part 121 Operating Requirements Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations Subpart E Approval of Routes: Domestic and Flag Operations

  12. 121.93 Route Requirements: Gen • Each certificate holder must show: • Able to conduct satisfactorily scheduled operations between each: • Regular • Provisional • Airport approved by the Administrator for use by the certificate holder for the purpose of providing service to a community when the regular airport is not available • Refueling airport • Facilities are available and adequate for proposed operation

  13. 121.93 Route Requirements: Gen • Does not require actual flight over route or route segment, considering • Availability/adequacy of airports • Lighting • Maintenance • Communication • Navigation • Fueling • Ground/airplane radio facilities • Ability of personnel to be used in proposed operation

  14. 121.95 Route Width • Approved routes/segments on U.S. Federal/foreign airways: • Meets minimum requirements • Other routes considerations: • Terrain clearance • Minimum en route altitudes • Ground/airborne navigation aids • Air traffic density • ATC procedures • Specified in operations specifications

  15. 121.97 Airports: Required Data • Each route has enough airports • Properly equipped • Adequate for proposed operation • Size • Surface • Obstructions • Facilities • Public protection • Lighting • Navigational/communication aids

  16. 121.97 Airports: Required Data • Certificate holder has approved system to obtain, maintain, and distribute current aeronautical data for: • Airports • Facilities • Public protection • Navigation/communication aids • Construction affecting takeoff, landing, ground ops • Air traffic facilities • Runways, clearways, stopways • Dimensions • Surface • Marking and lighting systems • Elevation and gradient

  17. 121.97 Airports: Required Data • Displaced Thresholds • Location • Dimensions • Takeoff or landing or both • Obstacles • Obstacles • Those affecting takeoff/landing performance • Controlling obstacles • Instrument flight procedures • Departure procedure • Approach procedure • Missed approach procedure • Special information • RVR equipment • Prevailing winds under low visibility conditions

  18. 121.97 Airports: Revisions • Necessary for continued adequacy • Certificate holder has 30 days to reconsider notice

  19. 121.99 Communications Facilities • Certificate holder must show: • Two way system or • Other means approved by FSDO office • Independent of any system operated in US • ETOPS operations • If voice communication not possible • Another communication system must be substituted • ETOPS beyond 180 minutes • Must have another communication system • Provide immediate satellite-based voice communications of landline-telephone fidelity • Must consider potential routes/altitudes needed for diversion to ETOPS alternates

  20. 121.101 Weather Facilities • Reporting services available along route: • US National Weather service or • Source approved by • US National Weather Service (within 48 contiguous states) • Administrator (outside 48 contiguous states) • NAVAIDs • Suitable aids are available • Not required if • Day VFR operations can be conducted • Night VFR operations have reliable landmarks

  21. 121.105 Maintenance/ETOPS • Competent personnel • Adequate facilities/equipment • ETOPS Alternate airport (rescue/fire fighting) • ETOPS up to 180 minutes • Category 4 or higher • ETOPS beyond180 minutes • Category 7 or higher • Aircraft must remain within diversion time of airport that has Category 7 or higher

  22. Part 121 Operating Requirements Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations Subpart F Approval of Areas and Routes: Supplemental Operations

  23. 121.113 Area/Route Requirements • Each certificate holder must show: • Equipped/able to conduct operations over • Navigational facilities associated with • Federal airways • Foreign airways • Advisory routes (ADR’s) • Conduct all IFR and night VFR over • Federal airways • Foreign airways • Controlled airspace • Advisory routes (ADR’s)

  24. 121.115 Route Width • Approved routes/segments on U.S. Federal/foreign airways: • Meets minimum requirements • Other routes: • Terrain clearance • Minimum en route altitudes • Ground/airborne navigation aids • Air traffic density • ATC procedures • Specified in operations specifications

  25. 121.117 Airports: Required Data • Each airport used must be • Properly equipped • Adequate for proposed operation • Size • Surface • Obstructions • Facilities • Public protection • Lighting • Navigational/communication aids

  26. 121.117 Airports: Required Data • Certificate holder has approved system to obtain, maintain, and distribute current aeronautical data for: • Airports • Facilities • Public protection • Navigation/communication aids • Construction affecting takeoff, landing, ground ops • Air traffic facilities • Runways, clearways, stopways • Dimensions • Surface • Marking and lighting systems • Elevation and gradient

  27. 121.117 Airports: Required Data • Displaced Thresholds • Location • Dimensions • Takeoff or landing or both • Obstacles • Obstacles • Those affecting takeoff/landing performance • Controlling obstacles • Instrument flight procedures • Departure procedure • Approach procedure • Missed approach procedure • Special information • RVR equipment • Prevailing winds under low visibility conditions

  28. 121.117 Airports: Revisions • Necessary for continued adequacy • Certificate holder has 30 days to reconsider notice

  29. 121.119 Weather Facilities • Reporting services available along route: • US National Weather service or • Source approved by • US National Weather Service (within 48 contiguous states) • Administrator (outside 48 contiguous states) • NAVAIDs • Suitable aids are available • Not required if • Day VFR operations can be conducted • Night VFR operations have reliable landmarks

  30. 121.122 Communication Facilities • Certificate holder must show: • Two way system or • Other means approved by FSDO office • Reliable and rapid communications under normal operating procedure • ETOPS operations • If voice communication not possible • Another communication system must be substituted • ETOPS beyond 180 minutes • Must have another communication system • Provide immediate satellite-based voice communications of landline-telephone fidelity

  31. 121.123 Maintenance • Competent personnel • Adequate facilities/equipment

  32. 121.125 Flight Following • Certificate holder must show: • Approved flight following system • Flight following centers located at • Necessary points ensuring proper monitoring of flight progress • All information necessary for safety of flight • Flight crew of aircraft (PIC) • Persons designated to perform operational control function • Adequate facilities/personnel • Provide necessary information for initiation and safe conduct of each flight to: • Flight crew of each aircraft • Persons designated to perform operational control of aircraft • Communications to monitor progress of each flight

  33. 121.135 Manual Contents • Instructions and information necessary: • Personnel to perform duties and responsibilities • Easy to revise • Date of last revision on each page concerned • Not contrary to any FAR or foreign regulation • 2 or more separate parts • General policies • Duties/responsibilities of each crewmember • Reference appropriate FARs • Flight dispatch and operational control procedures • Enroute, navigation and communication procedures • Domestic or flag operations • Approved routes • Types of airplanes authorized • Type of operations (VFR, IFR, Day, Night, etc)

  34. 121.135 Manual Contents • Supplemental operations • Areas of operations • Types of airplanes authorized • Type of operations (VFR, IFR, Day, Night, etc) • Airport operations • Location (domestic/flag only) • Designation (regular/provisional/refueling--domestic/flag only) • Types of airplane authorized (domestic/flag only) • Instrument approach procedures • Landing/takeoff minimums • Other pertinent information • Duties/responsibilities of each crewmember • List continues (see regulation)

  35. 121.137 Manual Availability • Copies to • Appropriate ground operations • Maintenance personnel • Crewmembers • Representatives of Administrator • All required to • Keep it up-to-date with changes and additions

  36. 121.139 Manual Aboard Aircraft • Supplemental operations • Appropriate parts on each airplane when away from principal base of operations • 121.141 Airplane Flight Manual • Current approved flight manual for each type of aircraft • Each aircraft required to have flight manual • May revise operating procedures if • Approved by Administrator • Clearly identified as airplane flight manual requirements

  37. Part 121 Operating Requirements Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations Subpart H Aircraft Requirements

  38. 121.153 Aircraft Requirements • Registered as civil aircraft of U.S. • Carries appropriate current airworthiness certificate • Airworthy condition • Meets applicable airworthiness requirements • Identification • Equipment • Weight and balance (based on) • Average • Assumed • Estimated weight

  39. 121.157 Aircraft Certification • See website 121.159 Single-engine airplanes • Prohibited

  40. 121.161 Limitations: Routes • Turbine-engine powered airplane • Farther from Adequate Airport • 60 minutes for two-engine • 180 minutes – more than 2 engine • Within North Polar Area • Within South Polar Area • Overwater • Certificated/approved for ditching

  41. 121.162 ETOPS Approval • Two-engine (ETOPS up to 180 minutes) • Airplane priors to Feb 14, 2007 • FAA approval for ETOPS up to 180 minutes • Airplanes after Feb 14, 2007 • CMP document for that model airplane • Two-engine (ETOPS beyond 180 minutes) • Airplane priors to Feb 14, 2007 • CMP document for that model airplane • Airplanes after Feb 14, 2007 • CMP document for that model airplane

  42. 121.163 Aircraft Proving Tests • 100 hours of proving test • At least 10 hours at night • Acceptable to the Administrator • 100 hours may be reduced by Administrator if satisfactory level of proficiency is demonstrated • Representative number of flights • CMP document for that model airplane • Materially altered • At least 50 hours acceptable to Administrator • Installation of power plants • Other than type similar which is certificated • Flight characteristics • Component alterations • No passengers on proving tests

  43. Part 121 Operating Requirements Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations Subpart I Airplane Performance Operating Limitations Look at Website

  44. Part 121 Operating Requirements Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations Subpart J Special Airworthiness Requirements

  45. 121.215 Cabin Interiors • Flash resistant materials • Walls/ceiling linings • Upholstery /floors/furnishings • Flame resistant • Smoking • Compartment equipped with self-contained ash trays • Receptacles • Fire-resistant material • Cover/other means of containing possible fires • Suitably ventilated • Crew has convenient means for closing air flow when necessary

  46. 121.221 Fire Precautions • Compartment designed for storage • Cannot include controls which affect safe operation of airplane unless • Adequately shielded • Isolated • Otherwise protected • Flame resistant • Class A: • Readily discernible to crewmember while at his station and all parts are easily accessible inflight • Must have hand-held fire extinguisher

  47. 121.221 Fire Precautions • Class B: • Enough access to effectively reach all of compartment with fire extinguisher • Separate approved smoke/fire detector system • Must have hand-held fire extinguisher • Lined with fire-resistant material • Class C: • Does not conform to Class A,B,D, or E • Separate approved smoke/fire detector system • Approved built-in fire extinguishing system • Exclude smoke, flames, extinguishing agent from crew or passenger compartment • Lined with fire resistant material

  48. 121.221 Fire Precautions • Class D: • Completely confine fire with endangering safety of airplane or occupants • Means to exclude smoke, flames, gases from entering crew or passenger compartment • Completely lined with fire-resistant material • Class E (Cargo only): • Does not conform to Class A,B,D, or E • Separate approved smoke/fire detector system • Shut off air flow to compartment • Exclude smoke, flames, extinguishing agent from crew compartment • Lined with fire resistant material

  49. 121.223 – 121.295 • See Website for more

  50. Part 121 Operating Requirements Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations Subpart L Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, and Alterations

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