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CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 133.290

Polar operations

  (1)   This regulation applies to a rotorcraft that conducts a flight to or from an aerodrome in a polar region.

  (2)   A rotorcraft operator's exposition must include procedures for the following:

  (a)   monitoring and dealing with fuel freezing;

  (b)   ensuring communication capability for the duration of an operation that includes a flight mentioned in subregulation   (1);

  (c)   training the rotorcraft's flight crew in polar operations;

  (d)   mitigating crew member and passenger exposure to cosmic radiation during solar flare activity;

  (e)   if the rotorcraft is not flown over water during a flight mentioned in subregulation   (1)--ensuring that each person on the rotorcraft wears a serviceable, cold - weather, anti - exposure suit that is appropriate for the temperatures in which the flight is conducted;

  (f)   if the rotorcraft is flown over water during a flight mentioned in subregulation   (1)--ensuring that each person on the rotorcraft wears an immersion suit that is appropriate for the temperatures in which the flight is conducted.


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