Air Law 2 Flashcards
Life Rafts
- Need to be stowed for easy access
- close to an exit
- stowed conspicuously
- have an appropriate survival kit
Survival Equipment Minimums
- Starting Fire
- Signalling Distress
- Providing Shelter
- Purifying Water
Additional Equipment For Night VFR
- Sensitive altimeter
- Turn coordinator
- Adequate Source of energy for electrics
- Spare fuses totalling 50% of required fuses for each fuse rating
- If out of sight from airport, heading indicator
- means of illuminating the instruments
- Landing light if carrying passengers
- anti-collision and position lights
Definition of Night
30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise
Minimum Equipment List (MEL)
- Used to make go/no go decisions
- can be deferred by PIC or Maintenance Manager
Technical Records
- required for every aircraft’s prop, engine, and airframe, and weight and balance
- Can not be carried in plane with journey log
Maintenance
- Every aircraft needs a maintenance schedule
- Must be completed by AME
- Inspection required for abnormal occurrences (overweight landing, bird strike, mis-fuelling, ground collision)
Seatbelts
- All aircraft built after 1978 require front seat shoulder harnesses
- All flight training and airline flight deck and flight attendant seats require a shoulder harness
- All aircraft built after 1986 with less than 9 seats require all seats to have a shoulder harness
- All aircraft performing aerobatics require shoulder harnesses
Safety Management System (SMS)
- Organized system for safety if a company
- Evaluating problems and finding solutions
- Policies and procedures for daily operations
- Employees require annual training
Components of an SMS - Safety Policy
- Concrete expression of the
management’s philosophy and commitment to safety
-setting of safety objective - non-punitive reporting policy
- Responsibility for the safety program
- Establishment of safety as a core value
Components of an SMS - Safety Performance Goals
- Identify and eliminate hazardous conditions
- Provide safety-related educational material to all personnel
- Provide a safe, healthy work environment for all personnel
- Prevent and reduce aircraft accidents and incidents and to prevent resulting
losses - Incorporate awareness, compliance, inspection, investigation and education
by providing programs delivered to employees
Components of an SMS - Responsibility
- Needs to be an accountable executive (CFI for us) identified by the organization with an operating certificate
- They are ultimately responsible for the SMS
- They must sign the Safety Policy
- Safety Officer must be appointed to conduct certain portions of SMS
Non-Punitive Policy
- Avoids punishment if they report concerns
- Clearly laid out and communicated to all staff
Policy Manual
Set specific goals for safety improvement
* Assign responsibility to individual functional manager
* Ensure compliance with regulations
* Train its staff in safety information
* Provide and share safety information
* Review its operations regularly to identify hazards
* Eliminate or minimize hazards
* Document its procedures in managing safety
* Evaluate, periodically, the effectiveness of its SMS
Hazard Identification / Risk Management
- Hazard is a condition with the potential to cause loss or injury
- Chance with of a loss / injury measured in terms of severity and probability
- be proactive
