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604.179 The component of the training program for flight attendants shall include the following elements:

• (a) the roles and responsibilities of the private operator and crew members;

• (b) the coordination of crew member duties and crew resource management;

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• (d) the content of the briefings given to passengers and crew members;

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• (h) requirements and procedures relating to seats and restraint systems for passengers and crew members;

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• (o) procedures relating to passenger and crew member safety during periods of in-flight turbulence;

• (p) procedures for entering the flight deck and for serving beverages and meals to flight crew members;

• (q) procedures for dealing with the incapacitation of a crew member;

• (r) the location and operation of, and any safety instructions relating to, the various types of cabin exits and the flight deck escape routes;

• (s) the operation of cabin systems and of safety and emergency equipment by flight attendants in normal and abnormal conditions;

• (t) the actions to be taken with respect to the equipment identified on the minimum equipment list and intended for use by flight attendants;

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• (y) procedures for the evacuation of passengers and crew members; and

• (z) training that includes the performance of the following emergency procedures:

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  • (iii) the operation and use of the emergency exits on each type of aircraft to which the flight attendant will be assigned,

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  • (v) if the flight attendants will be assigned to an aircraft equipped with life preservers, the donning and inflation of life preservers,

  • (vi) if the flight attendants will be assigned to an aircraft equipped with an evacuation slide, the identification of the location of the manual inflation handle and the disconnect handle, and an evacuation using the slide,

  • (vii) if the flight attendants will be assigned to an aircraft equipped with either first aid oxygen equipment or portable oxygen equipment, the operation and use of that equipment,

  • (viii) if the flight attendants will be assigned to an aircraft equipped with life rafts, the removal of life rafts from the stowage compartment and the deployment, inflation and boarding of life rafts, and

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• 8.2 (1) For the purposes of section 60 of the Act and subject to section 8.3, approval of the Agency is required before a person may provide all or part of an aircraft, with a flight crew, to a licensee for the purpose of providing an air service pursuant to the licensee’s licence and before a licensee may provide an air service using all or part of an aircraft, with flight crew, provided by another person.

• (2) The licensee and the person who provides all or part of an aircraft with flight crew shall apply to the Agency for the approval at least 15 business days before the date of the first proposed flight.

• (3) The application shall include the following:

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  • (d) the name of the person providing the aircraft with flight crew;

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  • (j) an explanation of why the use by the licensee of all or part of an aircraft with a flight crew provided by another person is necessary.

• (4) The licensee shall maintain liability insurance covering injuries sustained by passengers and the death of passengers and third party liability insurance coverage for an air service for which another person provides all or part of an aircraft with flight crew, at least in the amount as determined under section 7,

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• (5) Where the licensee is named as an additional insured under the policy of the person who is providing all or part of an aircraft with flight crew, there must be a written agreement between the licensee and the person to the effect that, for all flights for which the person provides all or part of an aircraft with flight crew, the person will hold the licensee harmless from, and indemnify the licensee for, all passenger and third party liabilities while passengers or cargo transported under contract with the licensee are under the control of the person.

• (6) The licensee and the person who provides the aircraft with flight crew shall notify the Agency in writing forthwith if the liability insurance coverage referred to in subsection (4) and, where applicable, subsection (5) has been cancelled or altered in any manner that results in failure by the licensee or the person to maintain the coverage.

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• 700.63 (1) If the pilot-in-command is of the opinion that an unforeseen operational circumstance that occurs within 60 minutes of the beginning of the flight duty period could lead to a level of fatigue that may adversely affect the safety of the flight, the pilot-in-command may, after consulting with all crew members on their level of fatigue,

  • (a) reduce a flight crew member’s flight duty period;

  • (b) extend a flight crew member’s flight duty period by the following number of hours in excess of the maximum flight duty period set out in section 700.28 or subsection 700.60(1) by

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    • (ii) two hours, if the flight crew is not augmented,

    • (iii) three hours, if the flight crew is augmented and there is one flight during the scheduled flight duty period, and

    • (iv) two hours, if the flight crew is augmented and there are two or three flights during the scheduled flight duty period; or

  • (c) extend a flight crew member’s rest period.

• (2) If a further unforeseen operational circumstance arises after take-off on the final flight for which the maximum flight duty period was extended under subsection (1), the pilot-in-command may, despite that subsection, continue the flight to the destination aerodrome or to an alternate aerodrome.

• (3) An air operator shall extend the rest period after a flight duty period is extended under this section by an amount of time that is at least equal to the extension of the flight duty period.

• (4) At the end of a flight duty period, the pilot-in-command shall notify the air operator of any change to a flight duty period made under this section.

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• 8.3 (1) The approval referred to in section 8.2 is not required if, in respect of the air service to be provided, the appropriate licence authority, charter permit and Canadian aviation document and the liability insurance coverage referred to in subsection 8.2(4) and, where applicable, subsection 8.2(5), are in effect and

  • (a) the proposed air service is a service between Canada and the United States and both the licensee and the person who is providing all or part of the aircraft with flight crew hold a licence to operate the proposed service;

  • (b) the proposed air service is an international service and a temporary and unforeseen circumstance has transpired within 72 hours before the planned departure time of a flight or the first flight of a series of flights that has forced the use of all or part of an aircraft, with flight crew, provided by another person for a period of not more than one week, and the licensee has notified the Agency of the flight or the first flight of a series of flights in accordance with subsection (2);

  • (c) the proposed air service is an international service to be provided through a commercial arrangement, including code-sharing, both the licensee and the person providing part or all of the aircraft with flight crew participate in the marketing of the service and the licensee has notified the Agency of the flight or the first flight of a series of flights in accordance with subsection (3); or

  • (d) the proposed air service is a domestic service and the person who is providing all or part of the aircraft with flight crew holds a licence to operate the proposed service.

• (2) The notification referred to in paragraph (1)(b) shall be given before the proposed flight or flights and shall contain

  • (a) a description of the temporary and unforeseen circumstance and an explanation of why it requires the use of all or part of an aircraft with a flight crew provided by another person;

  • (b) in respect of the air service to be provided,

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    • (ii) where use of the aircraft and flight crew does not require an Agency licence, a copy of the Canadian aviation document and the certificate of liability insurance;

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  • (e) the name of the person providing the aircraft with a flight crew;

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  • (h) the date of each flight; and

  • (i) the routing of each flight.

• (3) The notification referred to in paragraph (1)(c) shall be given at least five business days before the date of the proposed flight or the first flight of a series of proposed flights and shall contain

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• 705.80 (1) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), no person shall operate an aeroplane in respect of which an initial type certificate was issued after January 1, 1958 unless the aeroplane is equipped with

  • (a) in the case of a passenger-carrying aeroplane,

    • (i) a door between the flight deck and the passenger compartment, and

    • (ii) if the aeroplane is equipped with a crew rest facility having an entry from the flight deck and a separate entry from the passenger compartment, a door between the crew rest facility and the passenger compartment; and

  • (b) in the case of an all-cargo aeroplane that was equipped with a flight deck door on January 15, 2002,

    • (i) a door between the flight deck and a compartment occupied by a person, and

    • (ii) if the aeroplane is equipped with a crew rest facility having an entry from the flight deck and a separate entry from a compartment occupied by a person, a door between the crew rest facility and the compartment.

• (2) The doors required by subsection (1) shall be equipped with a locking device that can be unlocked only from inside the flight deck or the crew rest facility, as the case may be.

• (3) A key shall be readily available to each crew member for each door that separates a passenger compartment or a compartment occupied by a person from an emergency exit, with the exception of a door required by subsection (1).

• (4) No crew member, except a flight crew member, shall have a key to a door required by subsection (1) at any time from the moment the passenger entry doors are closed in preparation for departure until they are opened on arrival unless the locking device required by subsection (2) is installed and locked.

• (5) No person shall operate an aeroplane that is required by subsection (1) to be equipped with a door unless

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  • (b) the locking device required by subsection (2) and any other system used to control access to the flight deck can be operated from each flight crew member position.

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