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| Exemption no. | Issuance details | Applicability | Purpose |
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| NCR-042-2020 | Issued: 2020-04-04 Expiry: 2020-10-31 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 705.221(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-042-2020 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. |
| NCR-035-2020 | Issued: 2020-04-03 Expiry: 2020-10-31 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 702.67(1) and(2) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-035-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to provide a Canadian air operator 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 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 (WHO) on March 11th, 2020. |
| NCR-036-2020 | Issued: 2020-04-03 Expiry: 2020-10-31 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 703.91(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-036-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to provide a Canadian air operator 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 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 (WHO) on March 11th, 2020. |
| NCR-039-2020 | Issued: 2020-04-03 Expiry: 2020-10-31 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 604.139(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-039-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to provide a private operator 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 (WHO) on March 11th, 2020. |
| NCR-038-2020 | Issued: 2020-04-03 Expiry: 2020-10-31 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 705.113(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-038-2020 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 flight attendant training referred to in paragraph 705.124(2)(b) 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. |
| NCR-037-2020 | Issued: 2020-04-03 Expiry: 2020-10-31 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 705.113(1) and (2) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-037-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to provide a Canadian air operator with the temporary authority to extend the valid-to date of the line check referred to in 705.113(1) or the equivalent on-line evaluation (OE) under an Advanced Qualification Program and/or the training referred to in 705.124 ; and to extend the valid-to-date of the a Pilot Proficiency Check (PPC) referred to in 705.113(2) or the equivalent Line Operational Evaluation (LOE) under an Advanced Qualification Program, 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 (WHO) on March 11th, 2020. |
| NCR-032-2020 | Issued: 2020-04-01 Expiry: 2020-10-31 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 704.111(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-032-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to provide a Canadian air operator with the temporary authority to extend the valid-to date of a Pilot Proficiency Check (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 (WHO) on March 11th, 2020. |
| NCR-033-2019 | Issued: 2020-04-01 Expiry: 2025-03-31 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 704.115(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-033-2019 The purpose of this exemption is to standardize the application of minimum training time requirements for Canadian air operators conducting operations under Subpart 704 of the CARs when utilizing aeroplane types identified in the "Application" section of this document. This exemption allows these air operators to use the training times specified for Multi-engine aircraft 10-19 passenger seats in Table 1 and Table 2 of paragraph 724.115(31)(a) of the CASS. |
| NCR-034-2019 | Issued: 2020-04-01 Expiry: 2025-03-31 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 401.05(2)(b)(i)(B) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
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 2, 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, not 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. |
| NCR-026-2019 | Issued: 2020-03-31 Expiry: 2024-12-15 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 703.27(a), 703.34, 703.88(3) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-026-2019 The purpose of this exemption is to allow Canadian air operators operating pursuant to Subpart 3 of Part VII of the CARs and their flight crew members, to conduct night VFR operations while using NVIS. |
| NCR-028-2019 | Issued: 2020-03-31 Expiry: 2024-12-15 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 705.37 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-028-2019 The purpose of this exemption is to allow Canadian air operators operating pursuant to Subpart 5 of Part VII of the CARs and their flight crew members, to conduct night VFR operations while using NVIS. |
| NCR-008-2019 | Issued: 2020-03-31 Expiry: 2024-11-30 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 602.25 and 602.40(1) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-008-2019 The purpose of this exemption is to allow holders of a private operator registration document conducting operations pursuant to Subpart 4 of Part VI of the CARs and their flight crew members, and Canadian air operators operating pursuant to Subparts 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Part VII of the CARs and their flight crew members, while using NVIS to conduct entering or leaving an aircraft in flight and to conduct a landing or take-off at an aerodrome at night in Visual Flight Rules (VFR) at a location that is not lighted in accordance with the aerodrome lighting requirements specified in Part III of the CARs. |
| NCR-031-2020 | Issued: 2020-03-31 Expiry: 2021-10-01 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 302.208 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-031-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow all Canadian airport operators to defer the requirement to conduct these exercises by a maximum of 18 months. As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve, this exemption would allow Canadian airport operators who are required to conduct exercises at various intervals and that essentially need a large numbers of participants to congregate to complete their required exercise at a more appropriate time. 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. |
| NCR-025-2019 | Issued: 2020-03-31 Expiry: 2024-12-15 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 702.19 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-025-2019 The purpose of this exemption is to allow Canadian air operators operating pursuant to Subpart 2 of Part VII of the CARs and their flight crew members, to conduct night VFR operations while using NVIS. |
| NCR-027-2019 | Issued: 2020-03-31 Expiry: 2024-12-15 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 704.23(a) and 704.29 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-027-2019 The purpose of this exemption is to allow Canadian air operators operating pursuant to Subpart 4 of Part VII of the CARs and their flight crew members, to conduct night VFR operations while using NVIS. |
| NCR-033-2020 | Issued: 2020-03-30 Expiry: 2020-12-31 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 602.66(1)C) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-033-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow an air operator and flight crew to conduct an offshore operations flight over Canadian waters with persons on board that have received the EUBA training specified in provision 602.66(1)(c) of the CARs within the 42-month period preceding the flight. This exemption provides temporary measures in the public interest in response to travel restrictions and limited access to training facilities that are being encountered after the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11th, 2020. |
| NCR-029-2020 | Issued: 2020-03-27 Expiry: 2020-08-31 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 403.04 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-029-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to adopt temporary measures, in the public interest, to reduce the administrative burden on holders of an AME licence having to renew their licence following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on March 11th, 2020. The purpose of this exemption is to allow the holder of an AME licence, with an expiry date on their license falling from the date range of March 1, 2020 and August 31, 2020 to continue to use their licence even if it is not valid. |
| NCR-028-2020 | Issued: 2020-03-25 Expiry: 2020-08-01 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 402.04(1)(b) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-028-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to adopt temporary measures in the public interest to reduce the regulatory demand on Government and the Air Navigation Service Provider resources in Canada following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on March 11th, 2020. The purpose of this exemption is to allow holders of air traffic controller licenses and ratings that were valid as of March 12, 2020, which have a validity period that will end on or before August 1, 2020 due to the application of subsections 402.08(2) and 402.08(3) of the CARs, to continue exercising the privileges of that licence without it being valid. |
| NCR-025-2020 | Issued: 2020-03-24 Expiry: 2021-03-11 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 402.05 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
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. |
| NCR-026-2020 | Issued: 2020-03-24 Expiry: 2020-08-01 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 402.04(1)(b) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-026-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to adopt temporary measures in the public interest to reduce the regulatory demand on Government and the Air Navigation Service Provider resources in Canada following the declaration of a pandemic outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on March 11th, 2020. The purpose of this exemption is to allow holders of currently valid provisional licenses and ratings issued in accordance with subsection 402.06(1) of the CARS which have a validity period that will end on or before June 1st, 2020 to continue exercising the privileges of a traffic control licence without the licence being valid. |
| ATL-005-2019 | Issued: 2020-03-23 Expiry: 2021-09-24 Region: Atlantic Routing: MA |
CARS provision(s): 705.34(1)(a), 705.34(3)(b) Applicant provision(s): PAL AIRLINES Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
ATL-005-2019 The purpose of this exemption is to allow the air operator, PAL Airlines Ltd., to depart from St. John’s International Airport using the Deer Lake Regional Airport or the Stephenville International Airport as take-off alternates, when the weather at Gander International airport is not suitable for it to be used as a take-off alternate, without having to meet the requirements of paragraphs 705.34(1)(a) or 705.34(3)(b) of the CARs and subparagraph 725.34(1)(b)(i) or subparagraph 725.34(2)(b)(i) of the CASS. |
| NCR-020-2020 | Issued: 2020-03-23 Expiry: 2020-03-27 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 303.14 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-020-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to allow all Canadian airport operators to extend the period in which recurrent live-fire drill training is to be provided to all fire-fighting personnel from every 12 months to a maximum of 18 months. As the COVID-19 situation continues to evolve, this exemption would allow Canadian airport operators whose fire-fighting personnel are required to travel outside of their jurisdiction to the United States of America or Canada to complete their required recurrent live-fire training in order to maintain their level of proficiency to defer the requirement by a maximum of 6 months. |
| NCR-022-2020 | Issued: 2020-03-18 Expiry: 2020-07-31 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 705.124(1), 705.124(2)(B)(IV)C) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-022-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to authorize Canadian air operators operating under Subpart 5 of Part VII of the CARs to conduct annual fire fighting drills without each trainee donning a self-contained P.B.E or training smoke hood as required by subsection 7.6.3(2) of TP 12296, Annual-Fire Fighting Drill, Equipment Criteria. |
| NCR-021-2020 | Issued: 2020-03-17 Expiry: 2020-08-01 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 404.03 Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-021-2020 Cancelled and REPLACED by NCR-071-2020 |
| NCR-009-2020 | Issued: 2020-03-16 Expiry: 2025-03-16 Region: HQ Routing: AART |
CARS provision(s): 602.11(2) Applicant provision(s): GLOBAL Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
NCR-009-2020 The purpose of this exemption is to authorize persons in Canada operating aircraft certified by Transport Canada for operation with Cold Soaked Fuel Frost (CSFF) on the upper wing surfaces to conduct take-offs with CSFF on the upper wing surfaces. |
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