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| Exemption no. | Issuance details | Applicability | Purpose |
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| Request a copy of NCR-078-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-17 Expiry: 2021-06-30 Region: HQ Routing: AARTA |
CARS provision(s): 402.05 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-078-2020 Cancels NCR-025-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to adopt temporary measures in the public interest to reduce the potential of person to person transmission in air traffic control units in Canada following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th, 2020. More specifically, the exemption will add 270 days to the validity period of the proficiency checks for all air traffic controllers providing air traffic services under the CARs. |
| Request a copy of NCR-067-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-16 Expiry: 2020-12-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARTJ |
CARS provision(s): 401.14e) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-067-2020 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 11, 2020. More specifically, the purpose of this exemption is to allow the following commercial pilot licence candidates to be accepted for their flight test for the issuance of Commercial Pilot Licences - Aeroplane or Helicopter until December 31, 2020 as a temporary measure: 1) Candidates who are unable to write the Transport Canada licensing examinations prior to attempting their flight test; or 2) Candidates whose 24-month written exam validity will expire without having completed all of the training and checking required for application for a commercial pilot licence. |
| Request a copy of NCR-066-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-16 Expiry: 2020-12-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARTJ |
CARS provision(s): 408.12 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-066-2020 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. More specifically, the purpose of this exemption is to allow, until December 31, 2020, examiners conducting flight tests for commercial pilot licence candidates to accept the following candidates for Commercial Pilot Licences - Aeroplane or Helicopter that do not meet the pre-requisites for the written examination due to circumstances related to COVID-19: 1) Examination candidates who are unable to write the Transport Canada licensing examinations prior to attempting their flight test; or, 2) Candidates whose 24-month written exam validity will expire without having completed all of the training and checking required for application for a Commercial Pilot Licence. |
| Request a copy of NCR-063-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-15 Expiry: 2025-05-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 602.4 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-063-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to authorize pilots-in-command to land and take-off in aircraft for the purposes of NVIS aircraft certification flight tests and pilot proficiency flights to prepare flight crews for the above tests conducted by NAC Engineering Test Pilots and Transport Canada DAR Flight Test Pilots, in areas that do not meet the night lighting requirements for an aerodrome as specified in Part III of the CARs. |
| Request a copy of NCR-069-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-11 Expiry: 2020-11-30 Region: HQ Routing: AAROF |
CARS provision(s): 401.06(1)(b)(ii) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-069-2020 As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve and the closing of all flight schools and social distancing has been ordered by Provincial and Municipal governments, the offices of the delegated Civil Aviation Medical Examiners (CAME) are closed until the lifting of the 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 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, as is already allowed for applicants for a Student Pilot Permit – Aeroplane category for a period of six (6) months ending November 30, 2020, as a temporary measure. |
| Request a copy of NCR-074-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-11 Expiry: 2020-12-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 604.179(Z), 704.115(2)(D), 704.124(2)(B)(iv) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-074-2020 (Cancels NCR-022-2020) The purpose of this exemption is to authorize Canadian operators to defer the requirement for flight attendants and cabin crew members to perform hands-on, practical drills during annual training only. This exemption does not permit the operator to reduce the content in its approved flight attendant or cabin crew member annual training program. The performance of the required hands-on, 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 attendant and cabin 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 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-024-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-10 Expiry: 2025-07-15 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 705.201(4)(b) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-024-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow Canadian air operators to operate the DHC-7 aeroplane configured with 50 or fewer passenger seats with only one flight attendant. |
| Request a copy of NCR-023-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-10 Expiry: 2025-06-15 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 605.26(1)(b) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-023-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow the use by an infant of the AmSafe CARES™ device on Canadian registered aircraft. |
| Request a copy of NCR-076-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-09 Expiry: 2021-01-15 Region: HQ Routing: AAROF |
CARS provision(s): 401.14 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-076-2020 The purpose of the exemption is to allow candidates that have not yet written the requisite written examination for an Instrument Rating, or any of the initial Flight Instructor Ratings to be accepted to attempt the flight test required for the issuance of an Instrument Rating, or any of the initial Flight Instructor Ratings until January 15, 2021, as a temporary measure. 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. |
| Request a copy of NCR-072-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-04 Expiry: 2020-11-30 Region: HQ Routing: AAROF |
CARS provision(s): 401.11 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-072-2020 This exemption will extend the validity period of the Pilot-in-command-Under-Supervision (PICUS) experience that was on record and still valid on March 12, 2020, for a period of 6 months, extending validity from 12 months to 18 months, as a temporary measure. 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 and valid on March 12, 2020 for an extended period. 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. |
| Request a copy of NCR-073-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-04 Expiry: 2020-12-31 Region: HQ Routing: AAROF |
CARS provision(s): 401.06(2) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-073-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow the certification of additional privileges endorsed on a permit or licence to only expire upon receipt of a new permit or licence granting those privileges, instead of the normally prescribed period of 90 days for a temporary endorsement. The purpose of this exemption is to adopt temporary measures in the public interest to reduce the potential of person to person transmission in air traffic control units in Canada 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-075-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-04 Expiry: 2021-06-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARTA |
CARS provision(s): 303.14 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-075-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow all Canadian airport operators to extend the period in which recurrent first aid training is to be provided to all fire-fighting personnel beyond the frequency stated in Standard 323, which is at least once every three years, in consideration of extensions to validity granted by the training and attestation provider. The training related to first aid is structured to be delivered in a traditional classroom context and this is not possible in consideration of the current COVID-19 situation and its impact on classroom gatherings. The training providers have the flexibility to deliver some parts of the training in a virtual context, however some elements still need to be delivered in a classroom environment to properly assess the level of skill. In recognition of this, the training agencies have issued extensions to the validity of training given beyond the typical three year cycle. As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve, this exemption will allow the validity extensions granted by the respective first aid training and attestation provider. |
| Request a copy of NCR-062-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-03 Expiry: 2021-03-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARG |
CARS provision(s): 404.03(2)(a) and (b), 404.04(1)(b) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-062-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to adopt measures in the public interest to reduce the immediate and longer-term regulatory demand on healthcare resources in Canada following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020 and reduce the unnecessary exposure of healthy medical certificate holders to potentially hazardous healthcare settings. More specifically, this exemption will allow holders of medical certificates Category 1, 2, or 3 with a validity period ending between March 17, 2020 and March 31, 2021 to renew their certificate by attestation of fitness or via telemedicine consultation, subject to the conditions set out below. |
| Request a copy of NCR-070-2020 | Issued: 2020-06-01 Expiry: 2021-10-31 Region: HQ Routing: AAROF |
CARS provision(s): 406.75 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-070-2020 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. Consequently, most Flight Training Units (FTU) have been ordered to close pursuant to Provincial and Municipal Prohibition Orders. This exemption will allow students enrolled in Commercial Pilot Integrated Courses to delay completion of their courses beyond the regulatory time limits for a period of at least eighteen (18) months ending October 31st, 2021. Many enrolled students will not be able to return to the FTUs for many months to complete their Commercial Pilot Integrated training. |
| Request a copy of NCR-001-2020 | Issued: 2020-05-29 Expiry: 2025-05-11 Region: HQ Routing: AARTA |
CARS provision(s): 601.24(2)(a) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-001-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow the person who has responsibility for or control over a Canadian wind farm to install a Light Intensity Reduction [LIR] system to dim the intensity of the top CL-864 lights. |
| NCR-071-2020 | Issued: 2020-05-26 Expiry: 2020-08-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARG |
CARS provision(s): 404.03(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-071-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to adopt temporary measures in the public interest to reduce the regulatory demand on healthcare resources in Canada following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on March 11th, 2020 and unnecessary risk exposing healthy medical certificate holders to potentially hazardous healthcare settings. More specifically, this exemption will allow medical certificate holders whose medical certificate expired between March 17, 2020 and August 1st, 2020, to extend the validity period of their medical certificates until August 1st, 2020. |
| NCR-056-2020 | Issued: 2020-05-26 Expiry: 2025-06-15 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 705.95 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-056-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow Canadian air operators operating under Subpart 5 of Part VII of the CARs to be exempt from the requirement to carry some of the additional over water survival equipment listed in subsection 725.95(2) of the CASS, including a radar reflector, two day potable water supply, fishing kit, and allow for the stowage of motion sickness pills in a supplemental survival kit. |
| NCR-034-2020 | Issued: 2020-05-25 Expiry: 2021-03-31 Region: HQ Routing: AAROF |
CARS provision(s): 408.17(b)(ii) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-034-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to adopt temporary measures in the public interest to reduce the potential of person to person transmission following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation continues to evolve and the closing of all flight schools and social distancing has been ordered by Provincial and Municipal governments, this exemption will allow all flight test candidates with incomplete flight tests to complete the flight tests beyond the 30-day limitation imposed by subparagraph 408.17(b)(ii) of the CARs. |
| Request a copy of NCR-061-2020 | Issued: 2020-05-21 Expiry: 2021-03-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARG |
CARS provision(s): 404.17(a) and 404.18(a) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-061-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to adopt measures in the public interest to reduce the immediate and long-term regulatory demand on healthcare resources in Canada following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on March 11th, 2020 and reduce the unnecessary exposure of healthy medical certificate holders to potentially hazardous healthcare settings. More specifically, the purpose of this exemption is to permit CAMEs to renew existing MCs via telemedicine consultation when the Civil Aviation Medical Examiner deems it sufficient. |
| NCR-012-2020 | Issued: 2020-05-20 Expiry: 2025-02-28 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 704.01c) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-012-2020 The purpose of this authorization is to allow Canadian air operators to operate Bombardier BD 700 1A10, BD 700 1A11, or BD 700 2A12 aeroplanes under Subpart 4 of Part VII of the CARs notwithstanding that the maximum zero fuel weight of the aeroplanes exceeds the 22 680 kg (50,000 pounds) set out in paragraph 704.01(b) of the CARs. |
| NCR-017-2020 | Issued: 2020-05-20 Expiry: 2025-02-28 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 704.33(1)e) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-017-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to authorize Canadian air operators to operate Gulfstream GV, GV-SP or GVI aeroplanes while carrying passengers in an on demand charter operation. |
| NCR-019-2020 | Issued: 2020-05-20 Expiry: 2025-02-28 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 704.33(1)e) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-019-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to authorize Canadian air operators to operate Bombardier CL 600 2B19 aeroplanes while carrying passengers in an on demand charter operation. |
| NCR-018-2020 | Issued: 2020-05-20 Expiry: 2025-02-28 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 704.33(1)e) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-018-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to authorize Canadian air operators to operate Mystère Falcon 900, Falcon 900EX, or Falcon 7X aeroplanes while carrying passengers in an on demand charter operation. |
| NCR-064-2020 | Issued: 2020-05-20 Expiry: 2020-09-30 Region: HQ Routing: AAROF |
CARS provision(s): 401.06(1)c) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-064-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to adopt temporary measures in the public interest to reduce the potential of person to person transmission following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th, 2020. As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve and the closing of all flight schools and social distancing has been ordered by Provincial and Municipal governments, this exemption shall provide all applicants having successfully-completed flight test results an additional six (6) months to submit an application for a permit, licence or rating. |
| NCR-016-2020 | Issued: 2020-05-20 Expiry: 2025-02-28 Region: HQ Routing: AARTF |
CARS provision(s): 704.01c) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-016-2020 The purpose of this authorization is to allow Canadian air operators to operate Gulfstream GV, GV-SP or GVI aeroplanes under Subpart 4 of Part VII of the CARs notwithstanding that the maximum zero fuel weight of the aeroplanes exceeds the 22 680 kg (50,000 pounds) set out in paragraph 704.01(b) of the CARs. |
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