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Commercial air transport operation. An aircraft operation involving the transport of passengers, cargo or mail for remuneration or hire.

Crew member, A person assigned by an operator to duty on an aircraft during flight time

Cruising level, A level maintained during a significant portion of a flight.

Hazardous flight conditions.

Hazardous flight conditions encountered, other than those associated with meteorological condition, shall be reported to the appropriate aeronautical station as soon as possible. The reports so rendered shall give such details as may be pertinent to the safety of other aircraft.

Operating facilities

An operator shall ensure that a flight will not be commenced unless it has been ascertained by every reasonable means available that the ground and / or water facilities available and directly required on such flight, for the safe operation of the aero plane and the protection of the passengers, are adequate for the type of operation under which the flight is to be conducted and are adequately operated for this purpose.

Note,- “ Reasonable means” in this Standard is intended to denote the use, at the point of departure, of information available to the operator either though official information published by the aeronautical information service or readily obtainable from other sources, “ Facilities available and directly required” is intended to exclude emergency facilities such as those for fighting and search and rescue.

An operator shall ensure that any inadequacy of facilities observed in the course of operations is reported to the authority responsible for them, without undue delay.

Subject to their published conditions of use, aerodromes and their facilities shall be kept continuously available for flight operations during their published hours of operations, irrespective of weather conditions.