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Part ORO - ANNEX III - Organisational Requirement for Air Operations

(3) how it is to be accomplished — what flight procedures are to be applied.
(b) The AOC holder should prepare the non-commercial operations with an increased level of
risk taking into consideration the following elements, as applicable:
(1) pre-flight briefing;
(2) duties and responsibilities of the flight crew members involved, task sharing;
(3) special operating procedures;
(4) manoeuvres to be performed in flight, minimum and maximum speeds and
altitudes for all portions of the flight;
(5) operational limitations;
(6) potential risks and contingency plans;
(7) adequate available airspace and coordination with the air traffic control (ATC);
(8) selection of flight crew members; and
(9) additional flight crew training at regular intervals to ensure recency (considering
also a flight of a similar risk profile in the simulator, if needed).
ORO.AOC.125(a)(2) GM1 Non-commercial operations of an AOC holder with aircraft listed on its AOC
EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT OPERATING PROCEDURES APPLIED TO NON-COMMERCIAL
OPERATIONS
The provisions of ORO.AOC.125 enable an AOC holder to apply the most appropriate requirements
when conducting non-commercial operations, based on the risk assessment and risk mitigation
processes.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of elements that an AOC holder may identify and describe as being
different in its non-commercial operations from those used for its CAT operation and for which the
provisions of Part-ORO and Part-NCC or the provisions of Part-NCO should apply as appropriate:
(a) Qualification, training and experience of aircrew members, including aerodrome and route
competence requirements.
(b) Flight crew and cabin crew composition requirements
(1) CAT operations contain more stringent requirements for aircrew members, e.g.
multi-pilot vs single-pilot requirements.
(2) The AOC holder should specify the minimum number of flight crew and cabin crew
and the applicable aircrew composition.
(c) Fuel requirements
(d) Performance requirements
(e) Serviceable instruments, data and equipment and MEL considerations
(f) Non-ETOPS/ETOPS ETOPS are applicable to CAT operations only and thus a flight
operated according to Part-NCC/Part-NCO may be performed without the ETOPS
restrictions.
(g) Non-commercial flights with no cabin crew (see ORO.CC.100(d) and the associated
AMC).
ORO.AOC.130 Flight data monitoring — aeroplanes
(a) The operator shall establish and maintain a flight data monitoring programme, which shall
be integrated in its management system, for aeroplanes with a maximum certificated
take-off mass of more than 27 000 kg.
(b) The flight data monitoring programme shall be non-punitive and contain adequate
safeguards to protect the source(s) of the data.
ORO.AOC.130 AMC1 Flight data monitoring — aeroplanes
FLIGHT DATA MONITORING (FDM) PROGRAMME
(a) The safety manager, as defined under AMC1-ORO.GEN.200(1), should be responsible for
the identification and assessment of issues and their transmission to the manager(s)
responsible for the process(es) concerned. The latter should be responsible for taking
appropriate and practicable safety action within a reasonable period of time that reflects
the severity of the issue.
(b) An FDM programme should allow an operator to:
(1) identify areas of operational risk and quantify current safety margins;
(2) identify and quantify operational risks by highlighting occurrences of non-standard,
unusual or unsafe circumstances;
(3) use the FDM information on the frequency of such occurrences, combined with an
estimation of the level of severity, to assess the safety risks and to determine which
may become unacceptable if the discovered trend continues;
(4) put in place appropriate procedures for remedial action once an unacceptable risk,
either actually present or predicted by trending, has been identified; and
(5) confirm the effectiveness of any remedial action by continued monitoring.
(c) FDM analysis techniques should comprise the following:
(1) Exceedance detection: searching for deviations from aircraft flight manual limits
and standard operating procedures. A set of core events should be selected to
cover the main areas of interest to the operator. A sample list is provided in
Appendix 1 to AMC1 ORO.AOC.130. The event detection limits should be
continuously reviewed to reflect the operator’s current operating procedures.
(2) All flights measurement: a system defining what is normal practice. This may be
accomplished by retaining various snapshots of information from each flight.
(3) Statistics — a series of data collected to support the analysis process: this
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