Canadian Aviation Regulations (SOR/96-433)

700.206 (1) An air operator shall send a notice of intent to the Minister that includes

• (a) a statement that the air operator has established and implemented a fatigue risk management plan and a fatigue risk management process — and maintains the fatigue risk management plan and the fatigue risk management process — and intends to establish, implement and maintain a program for fatigue risk management promotion and a quality assurance program for the fatigue risk management system in accordance with this Division;

• (b) a description of the flight that will be subject to an exemption referred to in section 700.200;

• (c) the provisions of these Regulations from which the air operator and flight crew members will be exempt;

• (d) a description of the manner in which the flight will be conducted results in a variance from the requirements of the provisions referred to in paragraph (c);

• (e) the scientific studies used to demonstrate that the variance referred to in paragraph (d) is not likely to have an adverse effect on the levels of fatigue and alertness of flight crew members;

• (f) the expected day on which the exemption referred to in section 700.200 will first apply to the flight and, in the case of a flight that is not conducted year-round, the expected period during which the exemption referred to in that section will apply to the flight;

• (g) a description of the safety case that will be developed for the flight;

• (h) a statement that the air operator intends to validate a safety case in accordance with subsection 700.225(3) and to ensure that an initial audit is conducted under subsection 700.231(1); and

• (i) the name and contact information of the person who will be responsible for implementing the fatigue risk management system.

(2) The air operator may include in the notice of intent more than one flight if

• (a) the duration of the flight duty period is the same for all flights;

• (b) all flights have the same number of consecutive flight duty periods;

• (c) the flight duty periods for the flights start within 60 minutes of each other;

• (d) the duration of any part of a flight duty period that occurs within the flight crew members’ window of circadian low is the same for all flights;

• (e) all flights have the same number of consecutive flight duty periods that occur during any part of the flight crew members’ window of circadian low;

• (f) the duration of the rest period before and after each flight duty period is the same for all flights;

• (g) the time of day during which each rest period is taken is similar for all flights;

• (h) the flights are conducted in the same time zone or across the same number of time zones in the same direction by flight crew members who are all acclimatized to the same time zone;

• (i) the flights are conducted with the same aircraft type;

• (j) the flights are conducted with the same number of flight crew members;

• (k) the operating environments are similar for all flights; and

• (l) the hazards and risks are similar for all flights.