With the adoption of the Commission Regulation (EU) No. 965/2012 (Air Operations Regulation) a previous alleviation, under JAR-OPS 3, for flight by helicopters certificated in Category A to allow momentary flight through the height-velocity (HV) envelope, as shown in the relevant Flight Manual, has been removed. This prevents normalised operations conducted with exposure approval, such as landings and take-offs to offshore oil and gas installations, from continuing after 28 October 2014. Regulation (EC) No. 216/2008 (Basic Regulation) at Annex IV, paragraph 4(a) requires that aircraft are operated in accordance with their airworthiness documentation and flight manual.
EASA has issued a Notice of Proposed Amendment to address this issue but until this has been effected an exemption has been established to allow operations to continue and will be mirrored in other Member States. This will remain extant until revoked.
- Status:
- Cancelled
- Review comment:
- Following changes to the Basic Regulation, this exemption is no longer required.
- Version:
- -
- Version date:
- 20-Oct-2014
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