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| Exemption no. | Issuance details | Applicability | Purpose |
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| Request a copy of NCR-120-2020 | Issued: 2020-12-02 Expiry: 2021-07-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 704.108 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-120-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow an air operator conducting operations pursuant to Subpart 4 of Part VII of the CARs to substitute the requirements for training and checking to be performed in a flight simulation training device (FSTD) by training and checking in an aeroplane. COVID-19 |
| Request a copy of NCR-118-2020 | Issued: 2020-12-02 Expiry: 2021-07-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 604.174 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-118-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow a private operator conducting operations pursuant to Subpart 4 of Part VI of the CARs to substitute the requirements for training and checking to be performed in a flight simulation training device (FSTD) by training and checking in an aeroplane COVID-19 |
| Request a copy of NCR-113-2020 | Issued: 2020-12-01 Expiry: 2021-07-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 604.143(4)(d) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-113-2020 As an alternative means of compliance to paragraph 604.143(4)(d) of the CARs, the purpose of this exemption is to allow operators conducting operations under Subpart 604 of Part VI of the (CARs) to conduct training and checking on their pilots in cases where a person different from the instructor is not available to conduct the PCC. The present exemption grants seven additional months to global exemption NCR-084-2020 issued on June 23, 2020, with a validity period until December 1, 2020. COVID-19 |
| Request a copy of NCR-124-2020 | Issued: 2020-11-24 Expiry: 2025-11-30 Region: HQ Routing: AARTJ |
CARS provision(s): 401.11 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-124-2020 This exemption will extend the validity period of the Pilot-in-command-Under-Supervision (PICUS) experience that was recorded between March 12, 2019 and the expiry of this exemption, while a Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) is drafted and presented for processing to permanently amend the provision to eliminate the 12 month restriction imposed by 421.11(5)(b). This exemption will allow temporary measures in the public interest to reduce the regulatory demand on applicants for an Airline Transport Pilot Licence by retaining the validity of PICUS experience on record. It will also ease the unnecessary risk of exposing healthy applicants to potentially hazardous settings in Canada, following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. |
| OTT-010-2020* | Issued: 2020-11-24 Expiry: 2025-10-06 Region: HQ Routing: AARO |
CARS provision(s): 705.41(3)(b) Applicant provision(s): Air Canada rouge Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
OTT-010-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow Air Canada Rouge to allow non-operational crew members employed by Air Canada Rouge and Air Canada to occupy an available flight attendant seat on domestic and international itineraries. CANCELLATION The exemption OTT-013-2019 from paragraph 725.41(2)(a) of the CASS made pursuant to paragraph 705.41(3)(b) of the CARs issued to Air Canada Rouge on July 26, 2019 at Ottawa, Ontario, by the Director General Civil Aviation on behalf of the Minister of Transport is hereby cancelled because it is the opinion of the Minister that it is no longer in the public interest or is likely to adversely affect aviation safety or security. |
| Request a copy of NCR-116-2020 | Issued: 2020-11-20 Expiry: 2021-07-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 604.169(2), 702.76(2)(d)(vi), 703.98(2)(d), 704.115(2)e) and 705.124(2)e) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-116-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to authorize Canadian operators to defer the requirement for flight crew members to perform hands-on, aircraft servicing training and practical drills during annual training only. This exemption does not permit the operator to reduce the content in its approved flight crew member annual training program. The performance of the required hands-on, aircraft servicing training and practical drills shall either be completed within the validity period of the annual training or deferred for successful completion at a later date by each flight crew member. This exemption provides temporary measures in the public interest in response to travel restrictions and other impediments that air operators are encountering in the training of flight crew members following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th, 2020. |
| Request a copy of ON-003-2020 | Issued: 2020-11-18 Expiry: 2025-11-10 Region: Ontario Routing: PAH-TOR |
CARS provision(s): 302.07(1)(a)(i) and (ii) Applicant provision(s): Toronto Buttonville Airport Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
ON-003-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow Torontair Limited to: • Utilize the 161 feet of paved strip end portion prior to the threshold of Runway 15 for aircraft take-off manoeuvers; and • Use the following new declared distances terminology in the aeronautical information communications and publications, in order to take into consideration the area prior to the threshold of Runway 15: Initial Take-Off Area (ITOA): A prepared area prior to a threshold, which is available for aircraft take-off manoeuvers as a supplemental distance to the TORA, TODA and ASDA. Extended Take-Off Run Available (ETORA): The length of the runway declared available and suitable for the ground run of an airplane taking-off, including the Initial Take-Off Area (ITOA). Extended Take-Off Distance Available (ETODA): The length of the take-off run available, including the Initial Take-Off Area (ITOA), plus the length of the clearway, if provided. Extended Accelerate-Stop Distance Available (EASDA): The length of the take-off run available, including the Initial Take-Off Area (ITOA), plus the length of the stopway, if provided. |
| Request a copy of NCR-117-2020 | Issued: 2020-11-13 Expiry: 2025-11-30 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 421.19(2)(c)(i) 401.06(1)(b)(ii) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-117-2020 As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve, some of the offices of the delegated Civil Aviation Medical Examiners (CAME) are closed until the lifting of health prohibitions, rendering medical examinations unavailable for an approximate potential of 1,500 student pilot permit applicants requiring initial medical certificates or the renewal of medical certificates. Due to the exceptional situation that COVID-19 has generated, this exemption will allow all applicants for a Student Pilot Permit - Gyroplane, Balloon and Helicopter category to possess a Category 4 Medical Certificate, as is already allowed for the Student Pilot Permit – Aeroplane category, in order to continue training, including solo training practice. The purpose of this exemption is to allow Student Pilot Permit - Gyroplane, Balloon and Helicopter category applicants to also possess a Civil Aviation Medical Declaration (Form 26-0297) with Part B completed by the applicant and Part C completed by a physician licensed to practice in Canada or a Category 4 Medical Certificate, for a period of sixty (60) months ending November 30, 2025, as a temporary measure. Furthermore, a Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) will be drafted and presented for processing to permanently amend the provision to allow Student Pilot Permit - Gyroplane, Balloon and Helicopter category applicants to also possess a Civil Aviation Medical Declaration (Form 26-0297) with Part B completed by the applicant and Part C completed by a physician licensed to practice in Canada or a Category 4 Medical Certificate. |
| Request a copy of NCR-125-2020 | Issued: 2020-11-11 Expiry: 2021-06-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTJ |
CARS provision(s): 401.13(1)(d) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-125-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to adopt temporary measures in the public interest to reduce the potential of person to person transmission in Canada following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th, 2020. The purpose of this exemption is to allow candidates for the Pilot Permit – Gyroplane, Pilot Permit – Recreational - Aeroplane and the Private Pilot Licence to attempt the written examinations with at least 5 hours of total flight experience as well as allowing all other candidates to attempt the written examinations with only 25% of the total flight experience for the issuance of a permit, licence or rating until June 01, 2021, as a temporary measure. |
| Request a copy of NCR-112-2020 | Issued: 2020-11-10 Expiry: 2021-03-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 421.13(1) 401.13(1)(A) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-112-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow persons who have not received their confirmation of medical certificate of fitness, three months or more after submitting an application to Transport Canada, including the results of a medical examination by a Civil Aviation Medical Examiner, to write an examination for the issuance of a permit, licence or rating. This exemption provides temporary measures in the public interest to reduce the potential of person to person transmission in Canada following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. |
| Request a copy of NCR-110-2020 | Issued: 2020-11-05 Expiry: 2021-11-06 Region: HQ Routing: AARTC |
CARS provision(s): 605.26(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-110-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to permit all passengers to use on Canadian aircraft Child Restraint System devices that are foreign-approved to design standards not included in paragraph 551.501(b)(1) of the AWM. |
| Request a copy of NCR-106-2020 | Issued: 2020-11-04 Expiry: 2022-11-05 Region: HQ Routing: AARTA |
CARS provision(s): 402.03 (1)(b)(iii) and (iv) Applicant provision(s): NAV CANADA Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-106-2020 The purpose of implementing an Airport Control Service at Red Deer Airport, allows air traffic controllers who are working for NAV CANADA to obtain a location endorsement for Red Deer Airport without the requirement to have served under the supervision of a qualified Red Deer Airport controller for a period of time necessary to demonstrate competence during the twelve months preceding the endorsement of Red Deer Airport to them as holders of licences with existing Airport Control Ratings. This exemption also allows flight service specialists who are working for NAV CANADA at Red Deer Airport to obtain an airport control rating endorsed for Red Deer Airport without the requirement to have served under the supervision of a qualified Red Deer Airport controller for not less than three months during the twelve months preceding the issuance of an initial air traffic controller licence with an Airport Control Rating. |
| Request a copy of NCR-100-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-30 Expiry: 2021-04-30 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 705.2020(1)(a) 705.204(3)and(4) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-100-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow Canadian air operators, operating under Subpart 5 of Part VII of the CARs, to notify the Minister in writing within 5 days after making a change to the flight attendant ratio that it has selected for the purposes of subsection 705.201(2) of the CARs rather than at least 60 days in advance as is required by paragraph 705.202(1)(a) of the CARs. This exemption also permits the Canadian air operator to change its flight attendant ratio for a model of aeroplane without first having carried out a successful demonstration of its emergency evacuation procedures for that model where such a demonstration would be required by subsections 705.204(3) or (4) of the CARs. The demonstration of emergency evacuation procedures for the new ratio is deferred for the period of the exemption. COVID-19 |
| Request a copy of NCR-099-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-30 Expiry: 2021-11-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 705.221(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-099-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow Canadian air operators operating under Subpart 5 of Part VII of the CARs to operate the aeroplane if one of the flight attendants is incapacitated, regardless the flight attendant ratio selected. COVID-19 |
| Request a copy of NCR-111-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-30 Expiry: 2021-08-11 Region: HQ Routing: AARTA |
CARS provision(s): 302.416(1)(a) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-111-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow Canadian airport operators to continue reporting CRFI runway averages in accordance with the procedure described in the Advisory Circular AC 302-013, issue 04, sections 4.8 and 4.9 utilized immediately prior to the coming into force of the Airport Winter Maintenance regulations. |
| Request a copy of NCR-109-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-30 Expiry: 2021-07-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 705.124(2)(b)(ii), (iii) and (iv)(B) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-109-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to provide Canadian air operators with the temporary authority to extend the valid-to date of a PPC and the annual training of any company pilot assigned to perform duties on-board an aircraft for an additional 90 consecutive days. This exemption provides temporary measures in the public interest in response to travel restrictions, limited access to training facilities, isolation measures, and other impediments that air operators are encountering in the training and checking of flight crew following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. |
| Request a copy of NCR-102-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-22 Expiry: 2021-07-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 604.139(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-102-2020 ( CANCELS NCR-039-2020) The purpose of this exemption is to provide private operators with the temporary authority to extend the valid-to date of a Pilot Proficiency Check (PPC), competency check and the annual training of any company pilot, flight attendant or person assigned to perform duties on-board an aircraft for an additional 90 consecutive days. This exemption provides temporary measures in the public interest in response to travel restrictions, limited access to training facilities, isolation measures, and other impediments that private operator operators are encountering in the training and checking of flight and cabin crew following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. |
| Request a copy of NCR-101-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-22 Expiry: 2021-07-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 704.111(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-101-2020 CANCELS (NCR-032-2020) COVID-19 The purpose of this exemption is to provide Canadian air operators with the temporary authority to extend the valid-to date of a PPC and the annual training of any company pilot or person assigned to perform duties on-board an aircraft for an additional 90 consecutive days. This exemption provides temporary measures in the public interest in response to travel restrictions, limited access to training facilities, isolation measures, and other impediments that air operators are encountering in the training and checking of flight and cabin crew following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. |
| Request a copy of NCR-104-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-22 Expiry: 2021-07-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 702.67(1) and (2) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-104-2020 ( CANCELS NCR-035-2020) The purpose of this exemption is to provide Canadian air operators with the temporary authority to extend the valid-to date of a PPC, competency check and the annual training of any company pilot or person assigned to perform duties on-board an aircraft for an additional 90 consecutive days. This exemption provides temporary measures in the public interest in response to travel restrictions, limited access to training facilities, isolation measures, and other impediments that air operators are encountering in the training and checking of flight and cabin crew following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. |
| Request a copy of NCR-103-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-22 Expiry: 2021-07-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 703.91(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-103-2020 ( CANCELS NCR-036-2020) The purpose of this exemption is to provide Canadian air operators with the temporary authority to extend the valid-to date of a PPC, competency check and the annual training of any company pilot or person assigned to perform duties on-board an aircraft for an additional 90 consecutive days. This exemption provides temporary measures in the public interest in response to travel restrictions, limited access to training facilities, isolation measures, and other impediments that air operators are encountering in the training and checking of flight and cabin crew following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. |
| Request a copy of NCR-108-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-20 Expiry: 2021-07-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 705.113(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-108-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to provide Canadian air operators operating under Subpart 5 of Part VII of the CARs with the temporary authority to extend the validity period of any annual flight attendant training referred to in section 705.124 for an additional 90 consecutive days. This exemption provides temporary measures in the public interest in response to travel restrictions and other impediments that air operators are encountering in the training of flight attendants following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th, 2020. |
| Request a copy of NCR-105-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-16 Expiry: 2025-10-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 401.05(2)(b)(i)(B) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-105-2020 (CANCELS NCR-034-2019) The purpose of this exemption is to allow the holder of a flight crew permit, licence or rating, other than the holder of a flight engineer licence conducting operations pursuant to Subpart 4 of Part VI of the CARs or pursuant to Subparts 3, 4 and 5 of Part VII of the CARs, where a passenger other than a flight test examiner designated by the Minister is carried on board the aircraft, to not be required to complete, within the six months preceding the flight, five night take-offs and five night landings, if the flight is conducted wholly or partly by night. COVID-19 |
| Request a copy of NCR-097-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-09 Expiry: 2021-06-30 Region: HQ Routing: AARTA |
CARS provision(s): 303.06(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-097-2020 ( CANCELS NCR-047-2020) The purpose of this exemption is to provide flexibility to Canadian airport operators that currently provide ARFF services and are experiencing an unprecedented drop in passenger numbers due to COVID-19 health protective measures. This flexibility to the requirements under Subpart 3, Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting at Airports and Aerodromes, of Part III of the CARs and its applicability would be provided by allowing them to consider anticipated passenger numbers in addition to current actual numbers to determine if they are equal or below the 180,000 passenger number of emplaned and deplaned passengers threshold. These numbers, combined with a projection of the upcoming 12 months, would establish an equivalent regulatory level to those airports that were receiving 180,000 or less annual passengers prior to the current situation. As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve, this exemption will provide Canadian airport operators with a temporary modification of the methodology to review and compile the statistics in respect of the number of the number of passengers that are emplaned and the number of passengers that are deplaned. |
| Request a copy of OTT-009-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-07 Expiry: 2025-10-06 Region: HQ Routing: AARO |
CARS provision(s): 705.41 (3)(b) Applicant provision(s): Air Canada Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
OTT-009-2020 - Cancels OTT-010-2019 The purpose of this exemption is to allow Air Canada to allow non-operational crew members employed by Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge to occupy an available flight attendant seat on domestic and international itineraries. CANCELLATION The exemption OTT-010-2019 from paragraph 725.41(2)(a) of the CASS made pursuant to paragraph 705.41(3)(b) of the CARs issued to Air Canada on July 26, 2019 at Ottawa, Ontario, by the Director General Civil Aviation on behalf of the Minister of Transport is hereby cancelled because it is the opinion of the Minister that it is no longer in the public interest or is likely to adversely affect aviation safety or security. |
| Request a copy of NCR-005-2020 | Issued: 2020-10-02 Expiry: 2025-09-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 602.60(1)e) 605.04(1) 605.18(h) 605.36(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-005-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow persons to conduct a take-off and operate in flight in Canada an aircraft operating with a Special Certificate of Airworthiness in the Limited classification, when that aircraft meets the definition above of “warbird” without the aircraft being equipped with one or more of the following items: (a) a hand-held fire extinguisher; (b) a hard copy of the entire aircraft flight manual; © an alternative source of static pressure; and (d) an altitude alerting system or device (turbo-jet aircraft only). |
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