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| Exemption no. | Issuance details | Applicability | Purpose |
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| 213-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-28 Expiry: No end dateRegion: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 308.17(b) Applicant provision(s): Operators of non-designated airports Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to exempt non-designated airport operators from the requirements stated in paragraph 308.17(b) to provide aircraft emergency intervention services as stated in sections 308.04 to 308.16 of the CARs, with respect to aircraft using the airport. |
| 215-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-24 Expiry: 2005-12-04 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 602.152(a)(b) Applicant provision(s): State Transport Company Russia Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to permit State Transport Company Russia to operate a Chapter 2, IL-62 aeroplane on flights to and from Canada. State Transport Company Russia will land on November 28, 2005 at Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International (CYOW) Airport. The aircraft will depart from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport (CYYZ) on December 1, 2005 followed by a departure from Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport, on December 2, 2005 en route to Russia. |
| 198-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-18 Expiry: 2007-11-30 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 700.16(7)(b) Applicant provision(s): Air Canada Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to allow Air Canada to operate long range flights where flight crew duty time exceeds 17 consecutive hours but does not exceed 20 consecutive hours in long range aircraft equipped with Flight Relief Facility - Bunks which do not meet the full requirements of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aerospace Recommended Practices (ARP) 4101/3, Crew Rest Facilities, used in conjunction with ARP 4101, Flight Deck Layout and Facilities (Attached at Appendix A). |
| 193-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-18 Expiry: 2005-04-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 725.124(33)(e)(ii) Applicant provision(s): Skyservice Airlines Inc Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to allow the training pilots working for hire or reward for Skyservice Airlines Inc. to be exempted from the requirement to occupy the left or right crew seat while conducting the transition line indoctrination training on Skyservice Airlines Inc. A319/A320 and B757/B767 aircraft. |
| 212-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-17 Expiry: Cancelled & replaced by NCR-099-2016 & NCR-114-2016Region: HQ Routing: AARP |
CARS provision(s): 507.03(a) Applicant provision(s): Persons who apply for a special c of a Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
212-2005 Cancelled - Replaced by NCR-099-2016 & NCR-114-2016 The purpose of this exemption is to permit persons who apply for a special certificate of airworthiness in the limited classification to import and operate in Canada non-type certified and ex-military aircraft, subject to Transport Canada evaluation of the aircraft and maintenance and operating conditions attached to the flight authority. |
| 209-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-16 Expiry: 2006-01-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 705.124(1)(b) Applicant provision(s): Sunwing Airlines Inc. Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to allow three pilots working for hire or reward for Sunwing Airlines Inc. to be exempted from following the transition line indoctrination prior to conducting, as training pilots, the line indoctrination training program on Sunwing Airlines Inc. Boeing 737-800 aircraft. |
| 201-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-16 Expiry: 2007-07-15 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 705.106(1)(b)( i) Applicant provision(s): Canadian air operators Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to permit air operators, operating under Subpart 5 of Part VII of the CARs, and its flight crew members to meet the requirements of the CARs through an alternate means using level C or D Full Flight Simulators (FFS) to complete the three take-offs and three landings required, while maintaining an equivalent level of safety until the new regulation is published in the CARs. |
| 186-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-09 Expiry: 2007-04-14 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 605.3 Applicant provision(s): Pilots-in-command Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to authorize the pilots-in-command (PIC) to conduct a take-off or continue a flight in an aircraft where icing conditions are forecast to be encountered along the route of flight, without the aircraft being adequately equipped to operate in icing conditions, in accordance with the standards of airworthiness under which the aircraft type approval document was issued, while conforming to the condition of this exemption. |
| 197-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-09 Expiry: 2007-05-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 605.85(1) Applicant provision(s): Canadian air operators and flight crew members Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to permit Canadian air operators and its flight crew members to perform tasks that are identified in airworthiness directive FAA AD 2005-21-02 that are within the flight crew member's capacity to perform, but are not enumerated in the elementary work listings set out in the Aircraft Equipment and Maintenance Standards, without requiring a maintenance release. |
| 191-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-09 Expiry: 2007-04-30 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 705.80(5)(b) Applicant provision(s): Canadian air operators and flight crew members Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of ths exemption is to allow Canadian air operators and flight crew members to conduct operations with aeroplanes certified with a minimum of more than two flight crew members without having to comply with paragraph 705.80(5)(b) of the CARs. |
| 195-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-09 Expiry: 2008-09-30 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 107.02,573.03(1)(b) Applicant provision(s): HMY Airways Inc. Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to permit HMY Airways Inc., the holder of AMO Certificate Number #88-05, to introduce a safety management system in an orderly manner and without disruption of their normal operations, by following the SMS implementation program published by the Minister in the Implementation Procedures Guide for Air Operators and Approved Maintenance Organizations (TP 14343). |
| 200-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-03 Expiry: 2005-11-15 Region: Atlantic Routing: MA |
CARS provision(s): 704.108(1)(c) Applicant provision(s): Capital Airways Inc. Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to allow Capital Airways Inc. to complete the flight checking requirement on WW24 aircraft for the following pilots more than thirty (30) days after the PPC in the synthetic flight training device. |
| 192-2005 | Issued: 2005-11-02 Expiry: 2007-04-30 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 703.86(b) Applicant provision(s): Pilots-in-command and air operators Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to permit pilots-in-command to acquire the 50 hours of flight time on the aeroplane type, as required by subsection 723.86(1) of the CASS, by using the total of the flight time gained on similar aeroplanes grouped as a single type for the purposes of pilot proficiency check (PPC). |
| 137-2005 | Issued: 2005-10-31 Expiry: 2007-03-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 705.02;704.02;703.02;702.02;602.02 Applicant provision(s): Canadian private and air operators Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The intent of this exemption is to allow Canadian private and air operators authorized to conduct RVSM operations, to continue these operations without meeting the HMU validation overflight requirement of the ICAO/FAA Document 91-RVSM mandated by subparagraphs 725.08(2)(d)(ii), 724.08(2)(d)(ii), 723.08(2)(d)(ii) and 722.08(2)(d)(ii) of the CASS and subparagraph 624.06(2)(d)(ii) of the POPTS as applicable, until six (6) months after the certification of the HMU at Lethbridge, Alberta or Ottawa, Ontario as applicable, or March 31 2007, whichever occurs first. |
| 185-2005 | Issued: 2005-10-28 Expiry: 2006-01-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 705.108 Applicant provision(s): Air Canada Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to allow Air Canada and its pilots-in-command and seconds-in-command qualified on the Embraer ERJ 175 and 190 to operate these aircraft without respecting the crew pairing restrictions applicable to crew members when transitioning to an aeroplane type on which they have no previous experience. As Air Canada is introducing new aircraft to its fleet, on which pilots have no previous experience, crew pairing restrictions will be exempted until such time as Air Canada's pool of pilots who have completed their consolidation period on the Embraer ERJ 175 and 190 is sufficiently large to allow pilots who have not completed their consolidation period to be paired with those who have completed their consolidation period. |
| 189-2005 | Issued: 2005-10-28 Expiry: 2007-04-30 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 700.19(1)(a) Applicant provision(s): Air operators conducting deployed operations Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to permit Canadian air operators conducting deployed operations within Canada, under Subparts 704 or 705 of the CARs, to provide each flight crew member with time free from duty of one period of at least four (4) consecutive calendar days within each nineteen (19) consecutive days, instead of the current option contained in paragraph 700.19(1)(a) of the CARs of one period of at least three (3) consecutive calendar days within each seventeen (17) consecutive days. An amendment to the CARs is in progress. |
| 129-2005 | Issued: 2005-10-27 Expiry: 2007-04-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARN |
CARS provision(s): 804.01 (c ) Applicant provision(s): Persons who provide aviation weather services Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to permit service providers to provide meteorological observations consisting of the measurement of station pressure by aircraft altimeters for use in instrument procedures which is not permitted by Chapter 4 of the Manual of Surface Weather Observation. |
| 187-2005 | Issued: 2005-10-24 Expiry: 2006-11-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 202.42(1), 700.05(1)(b),706.09(1) (2) Applicant provision(s): Airborne Energy Solutions Ltd. Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to: ·Allow AES to have operational control of two Mi-26T helicopters, without the aircraft having a Canadian type certificate. The two aircraft will be added to the types authorized on AES's 702 and 703 Air Operators Certificates, however, the aircraft will remain registered in Russia and will remain in the legal custody and control of UTair Aviation, a Russian company; ·Allow AES to permit UTair Aviation to perform maintenance on the two Mi-26T helicopters when performance of the maintenance by UTair Aviation has not been approved by the Minister as being in conformity with the CARs; ·Allow AES to have operational control of two Mi-26T helicopters in order to conduct operations in support of the movement of drilling, completion and production equipment, built to take advantage of the lift capacity of the Mi-26T helicopters and used for petroleum exploration and development in Northern Canada. This exemption will allow AES to take advantage of the Mi-26T's lift capacity in areas where it is not desirable to build overland access capabilities due to weather and environmental concerns. |
| 178-2005 | Issued: 2005-10-11 Expiry: 2007-01-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 703.01(c) Applicant provision(s): Sunwest Helicopters Limited Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
This authorization will allow Sunwest Helicopters Limited to operate Bell 212 helicopters under Subpart 703 of the CARs. |
| 180-2005 | Issued: 2005-10-05 Expiry: 2007-03-30 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 704.01 (c ) Applicant provision(s): Kenn Borek Air Ltd. Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
This authorization will allow Kenn Borek Air Ltd. to operate Douglas DC3C-BT67 aircraft, bearing Canadian registration mark C-FMKB and serial number 19560 under Subpart 704 of the CARs, notwithstanding that the maximum certified takeoff weight of the aircraft exceeds the 8 618 kg (19,000 pounds) limit imposed by paragraph 704.01(a) of the CARs. |
| 179-2005 | Issued: 2005-10-05 Expiry: 2007-03-15 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 704.01 (c ) Applicant provision(s): Executive Transport Airways Limited Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
This authorization will permit Executive Transport Airways Limited to operate the Sikorsky S-61 helicopter pursuant to Subpart 704 of the CARs notwithstanding that, the MCTOW exceeds 8618 kg (19,000 pounds), and the aircraft may be configured with more than nineteen (19) passenger seats, excluding pilot seats, as prescribed by paragraph 704.01(a) of the CARs. |
| 98-2003 | Issued: 2005-09-30 Expiry: 2007-05-01 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 704.63(1) Applicant provision(s): Pilots-in-command Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
98-2003 expired The purpose of this exemption is to allow pilots-in-command to continue a flight in an aircraft when icing conditions are forecast to be encountered along the route to be flown and the aircraft is not equipped to be operated in those conditions. |
| 133-2005 | Issued: 2005-09-27 Expiry: 2007-03-31 Region: n/a Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 704.115(1) Applicant provision(s): Canadian air operators conducting communter ops Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to permit Canadian air operators conducting commuter operations by propeller-driven aeroplanes that are certificated for twenty (20) or more passenger seats and with a MCTOW of 19,000 lbs or less under Subpart 4 of Part VII of the CARs to use those training times applying to Multi-engine 10* to 19*, as listed in Table 1 and Table 2 referred to in paragraph 724.115 (31)(a) of the CASS. This will serve to standardize the application of training times when addressing similar aeroplane types that have certain variants certificated for more than nineteen (19) passenger seats (excluding normal crew seats), such as the case with the Twin Otter, DHC 6 - 300 Series. |
| 151-2005 | Issued: 2005-09-27 Expiry: 2007-03-31 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 703.98(1) Applicant provision(s): Canadian air operators Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to permit Canadian air operators conducting air taxi operations by propeller-driven aeroplanes that are certificated for twenty (20) or more passenger seats and with a MCTOW of 19,000 lbs or less under subpart 3 of Part VII of the CARs to use those training times applying to Multi-engine 10* to 19*, as listed in Table 1 and Table 2 referred to in subsection 723.98(27) of the CASS. This will serve to standardize the application of training times when addressing similar aeroplane types that have certain variants certificated for more than nineteen (19) passenger seats (excluding normal crew seats), which may be authorized to operate under subpart 703 of the CARs. An example of such could be a Twin Otter, DHC 6 - 300 Series configured for use to carry up to nine (9) passengers plus cargo. |
| 173-2005 | Issued: 2005-09-27 Expiry: 2008-09-30 Region: HQ Routing: AARX |
CARS provision(s): 107.02,700.09(1)b)( i),705.154,706.15 Applicant provision(s): North Cariboo Flying Services Ltd. Aircraft model: n/a Registration no.: n/a |
The purpose of this exemption is to enable North Cariboo Flying Services Ltd., Air Operator Certificate # 1478, to introduce a safety management system in an orderly manner and without disruption of their normal operations, by following the SMS implementation program published by the Minister in the Implementation Procedures Guide for Air Operators and Approved Maintenance Organizations (TP 14343). |
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