14 CFR 121 och 135 certifikatinnehavare är skyldiga att behålla operativ kontroll över sina flygoperationer:
§135.77 Ansvar för operativ kontroll.
Varje certifikatinnehavare ansvarar för operativ kontroll och ska i den manual som krävs enligt §135.21 ange namn och titel för varje person som har tillstånd att utöva sin operativa kontroll.
121.533 , 121.535 , och 121.537 innehåller liknande krav för 121 bärare.
Vad är exakt "Operational Control"?
Operativ kontroll definieras i 8900.1 Volym 3, kapitel 25 som:
Operational control functions include, but are not limited to:
- Preflight planning;
- For part 121 operations, preparation and dissemination of dispatch/flight releases;
- Canceling a flight due to potential hazardous or unsafe conditions;
- Ensuring that only those operations authorized by the OpSpecs are conducted;
- Ensuring that only crewmembers who are trained and qualified in accordance with the applicable regulations are assigned to conduct a flight;
- For part 121 operations, ensuring that no flight is started unless it has been authorized by a dispatcher or person authorized to exercise operational control in accordance with §§ 121.593, 121.595, or 121.597, as applicable;
- Ensuring that crewmembers are in compliance with flight and duty time limitations and rest requirements prior to departing on a flight;
- Designating a pilot in command (PIC) and, where applicable, a second in command (SIC) for each flight;
- Providing the personnel who perform operational control functions (PIC, dispatcher, etc.) with access to all necessary information for the safe conduct of the flight (for example, weather, Notices to Airmen (NOTAM), airport aeronautical data (analysis), and inoperable instruments and equipment);
- Specifying the conditions under which a flight may be dispatched or released (weather minimums, flight planning, airworthiness of aircraft, aircraft loading, and fuel requirements);
- For part 121 operations, ensuring that when the conditions, limitations, and authorizations specified in a dispatch or flight release cannot be met, the flight is either cancelled, delayed, rerouted, or diverted;
- For part 121 operations, ensuring that each flight is conducted in accordance with the conditions and limitations of the dispatch or flight release;
- Ensuring that each flight is operated in accordance with the limitations of the MEL and CDL;
- For part 121 operations, monitoring the progress of each flight and initiating timely actions when the flight cannot be completed as planned, including diverting or terminating a flight;
- For part 135 operations, locating a flight for which a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flight plan (FP) has not been filed;
- For part 121 operations, ensuring rapid and reliable communications in accordance with §§ 121.99 and 121.122, as applicable;
- Restricting or suspending operations in accordance with §§ 121.551, 121.553, or 135.69 as applicable; and
- Exercising the emergency authority described in §§ 121.557, 121.559, and 135.19, as applicable.
Dessa funktioner utförs normalt av en mängd olika personer:
Operativ kontroll implementeras av ovanstående personer och måste slå alla kulor i definitionen ovan. Det innebär att du måste alltid veta var flygplanen är, du måste bestämma vem som flyger dem, planera dessa flygningar, se till att piloterna och flygplanen är lagliga, se till att alla är utbildade för den utförda verksamheten och att alltid kunna kommunicera med ditt flygplan.
Det finns också omnämnandet av operativa kontrollsystem, vilket kräver att alla flygningar som drivs av transportören skickas, följs och kan lokaliseras hela tiden. Dessa funktioner utförs normalt av Dispatcher som är tilldelat till ditt flyg.
Ytterligare läsning utöver 8900.1 finns i AC 120-101 för 121 ops.
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