Part I Subpart 1 - Interpretation

Question 0

Aeroplane

Answer 0

A power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft that derives its lift in flight from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces that remain fixed during flight.

Question 1

Aeronautical product

Answer 1

Any aircraft, aircraft engine, aircraft propeller or aircraft appliance or part or the component parts of any of those things including any computer system and software.

Question 2

Aircraft

Answer 2

Any machine capable of deriving support in the atmosphere from reactions of the air, and includes a rocket.

Question 3

Aircraft identification plate

Answer 3

A fireproof plate that is attached to an aircraft and identifies the aircraft as a whole.

Question 4

Air Operator Certificate

Answer 4

A certificate issued under CARs Part VII that authorizes the holder of the certificate to operate a commercial air service.

Question 5

Air time

Answer 5

With respect to keeping technical records, the time from the moment an aircraft leaves the surface until it comes into contact with the surface at the next point of landing.

Question 6

Airworthiness Inspection Representative (AIR)

Answer 6

A full time employee of an organization approved for the distribution, manufacture, and maintenance of aeronautical products who is authorized by the Minister to certify aeronautical products for export.

Question 7

Airworthiness Limitation

Answer 7

A limitation applicable to an aeronautical product in the form of a life limit (life-limited parts) or a maintenance task that is mandatory as a condition of the type certificate.

Question 8

Airworthy

Answer 8

In respect of an aeronautical product, means in a fit and safe state for flight and in conformity with its type design.

Question 9

Appliance

Answer 9

Any instrument, mechanism, equipment, apparatus or accessory that is:

a) used, or intended to be used, in operation or controlling an aircraft in flight,
b) installed in, or attached to, or intended to be installed in or attached to, the aircraft, and
c) not part of the airframe, engine or propeller of that aircraft.

Question 10

Contracting State

Answer 10

A state that is a party to the Convention.

Question 11

Convention

Answer 11

The Convention of International Civil Aviation signed on behalf of Canada in Chicago on December 7, 1944, as amended from time to time.

Question 12

Design Approval Organization

Answer 12

An aeronautical design organization authorized by the Minister to approve designs of aeronautical products.

Question 13

Design Approval Representative (DAR)

Answer 13

Under the Aeronautics Act, the Minister may delegate to a properly qualified person the authority to find that an aeronautical product design, or parts thereof, conform to the airworthiness standards. The approval authority for a DAR may include:

a) the design approval of aeronautical products;
b) the design approval of repairs and modifications to previously approved aeronautical products.

Question 14

Elementary Work

Answer 14

Those tasks that are listed as elementary work in the Aircraft Equipment and Maintenance Standards. (CAR 625 Appendix A)

Question 15

Flight Authority

Answer 15

A certificate of airworthiness, special certificate of airworthiness, flight permit, or validation of a foreign document attesting to an aircraft’s fitness for flight, issued under Subpart 7 of Part V, or a foreign certificate of airworthiness that meets the requirements of Article 31 of the Convention.

Question 16

Flight Time

Answer 16

The time from the moment the aircraft first moves under its own power for the purpose of taking off until the moment it comes to rest at the end of the flight.

Question 17

Hard Time

Answer 17

A maintenance process under which a part is removed from service or overhauled at fixed intervals defined in operating hours, operating cycles, or calendar time.

Question 18

Identification plate

Answer 18

A fireproof plate that contains the identification information referred to in section 201.08 or subsection 201.09(2), 201.10(2), or 201.11(2).

Question 19

Large Aeroplane

Answer 19

An aeroplane with a MCTOW (maximum certified take-off weight) of more than 5700 kilograms (12,566 lbs).

Question 20

Life-limited Part

Answer 20

A part that, as a condition of the type certificate, may not exceed a specific time, or number of operating cycles, in service.

Question 21

Limited Supplemental Type Certificate

Answer 21

A supplemental type certificate that is applicable only to the aeronautical products that are specified in the certificate by serial number or by some other identification unique to those products and includes a limited supplemental type approval issued before October 10, 1996 under section 214 of the Air Regulations.

Question 22

Maintenance

Answer 22

The overhaul, repair, required inspection or modification, or removal and installation of components of an aeronautical product, but does not include

a) elementary work, or
b) servicing

Question 23

Maintenance Release

Answer 23

A certification made following the maintenance of an aeronautical product, indicating that the maintenance was performed in accordance with the applicable provisions of these regulations and the standards of airworthiness.

Question 24

Maintenance Review Board

Answer 24

The section of an airworthiness authority responsible for the approval of recommendations made by industry on the maintenance requirements of new aircraft types.

Question 25

Major Modification

Answer 25

An alteration to the type design of an aeronautical product in respect of which a type certificate has been issued that has other than a negligible effect of the weight and centre-of-gravity limits, structural strength, performance, power plant operation, flight characteristics or other qualities affecting its airworthiness or environmental characteristics.

Question 26

Major Repair

Answer 26

A repair to an aeronautical product in respect of which a type certificate has been issued, that causes the aeronautical product to deviate from its type design defined by the type certificate, where the deviation from the type design has other than a negligible effect on the weight and centre-of-gravity limits, structural strength, performance, power plant operation, flight characteristics or other qualities affecting the aeronautical product’s airworthiness or environmental characteristics.

Question 27

MEL or minimum equipment list

Answer 27

A document approved by the Minister pursuant to subsection 605.07(3) that authorizes an operator to operate an aircraft with aircraft equipment that is inoperative under the conditions specified therein, and may specify certain equipment that must be operative.

Question 28

Owner

Answer 28

In respect of an aircraft, the person who has legal custody and control of the aircraft.

Question 29

Primary Structure

Answer 29

A structure that carries flight, ground, or pressure loads.

Question 30

Serviceable

Answer 30

In respect of an aircraft or aircraft part, fit and safe for flight.

Question 31

Servicing

Answer 31

In respect of an aeronautical product, cleaning, lubricating and replenishment of fluids not requiring the disassembly of the product.

Question 32

Small Aircraft

Answer 32

An aeroplane having a maximum permissible take-off weight of 5700 kg (12,566 lbs) or less, or a helicopter having a maximum permissible take-off weight of 2730 kg (6,018 lbs) or less.

Question 33

Supplemental Type Certificate

Answer 33

A document, issued by the Minister to record the approval of a change to the type design of:

a) an aeronautical product identified in the document by a single serial number,
b) several aeronautical products of the same type or model, approved under a single type certificate and identified in the document by their serial numbers, or
c) several aeronautical products of differing types or models, approved under separate type certificates and identified in the document.

(Includes a limited supplemental type approval and a supplemental type approval issued before October 10, 1996, and a limited supplemental type certificate issued before December 1, 2009)

Question 34

Type

Answer 34

a) when used in reference to personnel licensing, a specific make and model of aircraft, including modifications thereto that do not change its handling or flight characteristics, and
b) when used in reference to the certification of aircraft, a classification of aircraft having similar design characteristics.

Question 35

Type Certificate

Answer 35

A document issued by;

a) the Minister certifying that the type design of an aircraft, aircraft engine, aircraft propeller or aircraft appliance meets the applicable standards for that aeronautical product, as recorded in the type certificate data sheets, and includes;
b) the foreign airworthiness authority having jurisdiction over the type design of an aeronautical product that is equivalent to a document referred to in paragraph (a) and has been accepted by the Minister for the purpose of issuing a certificate of airworthiness.

Note: before CARs came into force, the approval of a type design by TC was known as a Type Approval. These are now recognized as type certificates.

Question 36

Type Design

Answer 36

a) the drawings and specifications, and listing of those drawings and specifications that are necessary to define the design features of an aeronautical product in compliance with the standards applicable to the aeronautical product,
b) the information on dimensions, materials and manufacturing processes that are necessary to define the structural strength of an aeronautical product,
c) the approved Sections of the aircraft flight manual, where required by the applicable standards of airworthiness ,
d) the airworthiness limitations Section of the instructions for continued airworthiness specified in the applicable chapters of the Airworthiness Manual; and
e) any other data necessary to allow, by comparison, the determination of the airworthiness and, where applicable, the environmental characteristics of later aeronautical products of the same type or model.

Question 37

Vintage aircraft

Answer 37

An aircraft manufactured prior to January 1, 1957.