SUBPART G
Manual
Requirements
This subpart prescribes requirements for preparing
and maintaining manuals by all certificate holders.
121.132 Flight safety documents
system
An operator shall establish a flight safety documents system, for the use and guidance of operational personnel in accordance with EAC 00-20.
(a)
An operator shall provide, for the use and guidance of operations personnel concerned, an operations manual in
accordance with Appendix L to this part.
The
operations manual shall be amended or revised as is necessary to ensure that
the information contained therein is kept up to date.
All
such amendments or revisions shall be issued to all personnel that are
required to use this manual.
(b) An operator shall provide a copy of the
operations manual together with all amendments and/or revisions, for review and
acceptance (and, where required, approval).
(c) The operator shall incorporate in the
operations manual such mandatory
material as ECAA may require.
(d) Specific items in the operations manual
require the approval of ECAA such as:
(1)
Aerodrome operating minima for each of the aerodromes that are likely to be used as aerodromes of intended landing
or as alternate aerodromes.
(2) Minimum equipment list (MEL), which will
enable the pilot-in- command to determine whether a flight may be commenced or
continued from any intermediate stop should any instrument, equipment or
systems become inoperative.
(3) Training programs
(e)
In case of lease, the operator shall provide the State of the foreign operator
and the foreign State of Registry with a copy of the operation manual, upon
request, together with all amendments and/or revisions to it and shall
incorporate in it such mandatory material as the State of the foreign Operator
or the foreign State of Registry may require.
(f) An operations manual, should be
organized with the following structure:
(1) General;
(2) Aircraft operating information;
(3) Areas, routes and aerodromes; and
(4) Training.
Details of the requirements for the
organization and content of an operations manual are provided in Appendix L to
this part.
121.135 Operators
maintenance control manual
(a) The operator shall provide the ECAA with a copy of its maintenance
control manual, together with all amendments and / or revisions to it and shall
incorporate in such mandatory material the ECAA may require.
(b) The operator's maintenance control manual may be issued in separate
parts and shall contain:
(1) A description of the following procedures as acceptable to the ECAA, to ensure that:
(i) Each
aircraft operated is maintained in an airworthy condition;
(ii) The
operational and emergency equipment necessary for an intended flight is
serviceable; and
(iii) The
Certificate of Airworthiness of each aircraft they operate remains valid.
(2) The administrative arrangements between the operator and all approved
maintenance organizations;
(3) Names and duties of the persons required to ensure that all maintenance
is carried out in accordance with the maintenance control manual;
(4) A reference to the maintenance program provided by the operator, for the
use and guidance of maintenance and operational personnel concerned, approved
by the ECAA, with human factors principles observed in its design, containing:
(i) Maintenance
tasks and the intervals, at which these are to be performed, taking into
accounts the anticipated utilization of the aircraft;
(ii) When
applicable, a continuing structural integrity program;
(iii) Procedures
for changing or deviating from (i) and (ii) above; and
(iv) When
the manufacturer maintenance program includes components that do not have a
stated overhaul life or are subject to condition monitoring maintenance
program, the operator procedures shall include the associated program for the
reliability program description for the related aircraft equipment or aircraft
systems, components and powerplants.
(i)
Maintenance tasks and
intervals that have been specified, as mandatory in approval of the type design
shall be identified as such.
Note: Refer to EAC 00-10 for human factor minimum
requirements.
(5)
The methods used for the
completion and retention of the operator's maintenance records;
(6) The procedures for monitoring, accessing and reporting maintenance and operational
experience;
(7) The procedures for accessing continuing airworthiness information and
implementing any resulting actions;
(8) The procedures for implementing action resulting from mandatory
continuing airworthiness information;
(9) Establishing and maintaining a system of analysis and continued
monitoring of the performance and efficiency of the maintenance program, in
order to correct any deficiency in that program;
(10) Aircraft types and models to which the manual applies;
(11) The procedures for ensuring that
un-serviceability’s affecting airworthiness are recorded and rectified;
(12) The procedures for advising the ECAA of
significant in-service occurrences.
(13) Reference to
appropriate ECAR Part;
(14) Instructions and procedures for maintenance, preventive maintenance and
servicing;
(15) Weight and balance approved
program and methods and procedures for maintaining the aircraft mass and center
of gravity within approved limits;
(16) Aircraft handling procedures;
(17) Maintenance training program,
curriculums, instructors, procedures and description of training system and
facilities;
(18) Other information and instructions related to the certificate holder's
safety program;
(19) Procedures for ensuring that the organization responsible for type
design, usually the manufacturer, received adequate reports of occurrences to
that type and all mandatory continuing airworthiness information originated by
Egyptian CAA so that it can issue appropriate service instructions and
recommendations to all operators;
(20) A description of the procedure for receiving, amending and distributing
within the maintenance organization all necessary airworthiness data from the
type certificate holder or type design organization; and
(21) A description of the maintenance procedures and the
procedures for completing and signing
a maintenance release when maintenance is based on a system other than that of
an approved maintenance organization.
(c) Copies of all amendments to the operator’s maintenance control manual
shall be furnished promptly to all organizations or persons to whom the manual
has been issued.
(d) In case of lease, the certificate holder shall provide the State of the
foreign operator and the foreign State of Registry with a copy of the
operator’s maintenance control manual, upon request, together with all
amendments and/or revisions to it and shall incorporate in it such mandatory
material as the State of the foreign Operator or the foreign State of Registry
may require.
121.137 Aircraft
operation manual
This manual provides cockpit crew members
with information and guidance on the technical, procedural and performance
aspects of the operation of the aircraft.
This manual is often provided in two volumes. One volume presents
“in-flight” data, i.e. limitations, normal and emergency checklists,
normal and emergency procedures and amplification of these procedures, and
in-flight performance data. The operator should issue operating instructions
and provide information on aeroplane climb performance with all engines
operating to enable the pilot-in-command to determine the climb gradient that
can be achieved during the departure phase for the existing take-off conditions
and intended take-off technique. This information should be included in the
operations manual.. The second volume
presents aircraft system descriptions and flight performance data for use in
flight planning. All data and
information in this manual must comply with the flight manual, where
applicable. In general, the
responsibility for developing and issuing amendments and revisions to these
manuals rests with the aircraft manufacturer.
Operators may develop additional instructions, procedures or guidance to
be inserted in this manual. Such
operator-developed additions should only be for clarification or expansion of
the manufacturer's material, where necessary. The design of the manual shall observe Human Factors principles.
121.139 Minimum
equipment list and configuration deviation list
These lists are supplied by the aircraft
manufacturer in the flight manual or aircraft operating manual. For ease of use, operators extract the lists
and include additional restrictions to the list for his own operational
requirements and present them as a separate volume after ECAA approval. The manual should contain guidance and information
on the use and interpretation of the lists.
121.141 Aircraft
performance manual
Aircraft performance data is published in
the flight manual. Normally, an expanded
version of this is published in the aircraft operating manual. Based on this data, operators often produce
their own performance manual which presents performance information for the
operator's own route network. This
manual typically contains take-off and landing data for each usable runway at
each destination and alternate airport.
Where an operator has a very extensive route network, the information
could be presented in separate volumes for different geographical areas. Cruise control information is often included
in the performance manual. The manual
must contain information on the method of derivation of the data presented,
which must be in agreement with the data presented in the aircraft flight
manual. The manual must also include
guidance on how to use the data presented and a number of examples of use of
this data are normally included.
121.143 Emergency
evacuation procedures manual
This manual shall contain information on the
emergency evacuation procedures for each aircraft type for both cockpit and
cabin crew. In addition to specific
aircraft procedures, the manual shall contain general safety and survival information
appropriate to the areas in which operations take place.
121.145
Organization of the operations manual
(a) The operations manual shall have a master subject index, placed in the
policy and administration manual. In
addition, each volume shall have its own
subject index. There shall be a table of
contents at the beginning of each volume for each section or chapter. Each page shall be numbered and have a date
of original issue. Each volume shall
have a checklist of pages identifying page numbers and dates of issue to ensure
the validity of the contents. The entry
of each amendment and/or additional page shall be recorded on a page specially
provided in each volume for that purpose and signed for by the person making
the amendment or addition.
(b) The executive charged with the responsibility for the control of the
contents of the operations manual shall also be responsible for the issuance of
individual volumes and for ensuring that appropriate amendments are dispatched
to the holders of the volumes. To ensure
adequate control of the volumes and their amendments, it is necessary to number
each volume individually. Complete
records must be kept of the disposition of each volume of the operations manual
in aircraft libraries, in operations offices, etc. Records must also be kept of individuals who
are holders of all, or part, of the operations manual.
(c) The executive responsible for the manual must approve amendments,
revisions and additions to the operations manual. In some cases this will consist of ensuring
that such changes issued by the originator of a particular volume are correct
and appropriate to the operations manual.
This would be the case with amendments issued by the aircraft
manufacturer for the operating manuals, or with amendments issued for the route
guide, when the route guide is purchased from a commercial agency. However, in the case of amendments or
additions, which originate within the organization, the executive responsible
must ascertain that the proposed change is necessary and determine how it is to
be promulgated. In most cases the
amendment will be issued through normal channels to all holders of the
operations manual. In other cases,
because of the urgency of the information contained in the amendment it will be
necessary to issue a notice to the cockpit crew and to other concerned
operational personnel. This notice shall
be replaced by an amendment to the manual as soon as possible. In revising or altering the contents of the
operations manual, operators must bear in mind that the ECAA is required to
approve the contents of the operations manual and that certain parts of the
manual include material, which is considered mandatory. It is therefore necessary that the amendments
be approved by the ECAA. In practice,
since much of the material in an operations manual only requires the general
approval of the ECAA, it is often appropriate to agree with the authority which
parts of the operations manual need the specific approval of that authority
before they are amended and which parts only require notification of changes
made.
(d) Amendments to the operations manual must be produced as new or
replacement pages. Handwritten amendments to an operations manual are generally
not acceptable. The new or replacement
pages must include a page identification number and a date of issue. A letter or covering sheet must identify the
reason for the amendment and provide a checklist of the amendment to be
made. This is particularly important
when an amendment is made to any safety-related information. Instructions shall
be included for inserting the amendment in the appropriate volume and for
recording insertion of the amendment.
The signature of the executive approving the amendment must also appear. A revision to the list of effective pages must
be included with any amendment to the operations manual.
(e) Distribution and availability:
(1) Each
certificate holder shall furnish copies of the manual required by this subpart
or appropriate parts of the manual (and the changes and additions thereto) to:
(i) Its
appropriate ground operations and maintenance personnel;
(ii) Crewmembers;
and
(iii) Representatives
of the ECAA assigned to it.
(2) Each
person to whom a manual or appropriate parts of it are furnished under
paragraph (1) of this section shall keep it up-to-date with the changes and
additions furnished to that person and shall have the manual or appropriate
parts of it accessible when performing assigned duties; and
(3) For
the purpose of complying with paragraph (1) of this section, a certificate
holder may furnish the persons listed therein the maintenance part of the
manual on microfilm or computerized form if it also furnishes and maintains a
reading device that provides a legible facsimile image of the microfilmed
maintenance information and instructions.
121.147
Requirement for manual aboard aircraft
(a) Except
as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, each air carrier and air taxi
operator shall carry appropriate parts of the manual on each aircraft when away
from the principal base. The appropriate parts must be available for use of
ground or flight personnel. If an air
carrier or air taxi operator carries aboard an aircraft all or any portion of
the maintenance part of its manual in microfilm or computerized form, it must
also carry a reading device that provides a legible facsimile image of the
microfilmed maintenance information and instructions.
(b) If an air carrier or air taxi operator
is able to perform all scheduled maintenance at specified stations where it
keeps maintenance parts of the manual, it does not have to carry those parts of
the manual aboard the aircraft en route to those stations.
121.149 Airplane
or rotorcraft flight manual
(a) Each
certificate holder shall keep a current approved airplane or rotorcraft flight manual
for each type of transport category aircraft that it operates.
(b) In
each transport category aircraft, the certificate holder shall carry either the
manual required by this subpart, if it contains the information required for
the applicable flight manual and this information is clearly identified as
flight manual requirements, or an approved Airplane or Rotorcraft Flight
Manual. If the certificate holder elects to carry the manual required by this
subpart, he may revise the operating procedures sections and modify the
presentation of performance data from the applicable flight manual if the
revised operating procedures and modified performance data presentations are:
(1) Approved
by the ECAA; and
(2) Clearly
identified as airplane or rotorcraft flight manual requirements.