Section 135.619

14 CFR Ch. I (1-1-19 Edition)

(4) Participate in the preflight risk
analysis required under Section 135.617 to include the following:
(i) Ensure the pilot has completed all
required items on the preflight risk
analysis worksheet;
(ii) Confirm and verify all entries on
the preflight risk analysis worksheet;
(iii) Assist the pilot in mitigating
any identified risk prior to takeoff; and
(iv) Acknowledge in writing, specifying the date and time, that the preflight risk analysis worksheet has been
accurately completed and that, according to their professional judgment, the
flight can be conducted safely.
(b) Operations control center staffing.
Each certificate holder conducting helicopter air ambulance operations must
provide enough operations control specialists at each operations control center to ensure the certificate holder
maintains operational control of each
flight.
(c) Documentation of duties and responsibilities. Each certificate holder must
describe in its operations manual the
duties and responsibilities of operations control specialists, including
preflight risk mitigation strategies and
control measures, shift change checklist, and training and testing procedures to hold the position, including
procedures for retesting.
(d) Training requirements. No certificate holder may use, nor may any person perform the duties of, an operations control specialist unless the operations control specialist has satisfactorily completed the training requirements of this paragraph.
(1) Initial training. Before performing
the duties of an operations control specialist, each person must satisfactorily
complete the certificate holder-s FAAapproved operations control specialist
initial training program and pass an
FAA-approved knowledge and practical
test given by the certificate holder.
Initial training must include a minimum of 80 hours of training on the
topics listed in paragraph (f) of this
section. A certificate holder may reduce the number of hours of initial
training to a minimum of 40 hours for
persons who have obtained, at the time
of beginning initial training, a total of
at least 2 years of experience during

the last 5 years in any one or in any
combination of the following areas - 
(i) In military aircraft operations as
a pilot, flight navigator, or meteorologist;
(ii) In air carrier operations as a
pilot, flight engineer, certified aircraft
dispatcher, or meteorologist; or
(iii) In aircraft operations as an air
traffic controller or a flight service
specialist.
(2) Recurrent training. Every 12
months after satisfactory completion
of the initial training, each operations
control specialist must complete a
minimum of 40 hours of recurrent
training on the topics listed in paragraph (f) of this section and pass an
FAA-approved knowledge and practical
test given by the certificate holder on
those topics.
(e) Training records. The certificate
holder must maintain a training record
for each operations control specialist
employed by the certificate holder for
the duration of that individual-s employment and for 90 days thereafter.
The training record must include a
chronological log for each training
course, including the number of training hours and the examination dates
and results.
(f) Training topics. Each certificate
holder must have an FAA-approved operations control specialist training
program that covers at least the following topics - 
(1) Aviation weather, including:
(i) General meteorology;
(ii) Prevailing weather;
(iii) Adverse and deteriorating weather;
(iv) Windshear;
(v) Icing conditions;
(vi) Use of aviation weather products;
(vii) Available sources of information; and
(viii) Weather minimums;
(2) Navigation, including:
(i) Navigation aids;
(ii) Instrument approach procedures;
(iii) Navigational publications; and
(iv) Navigation techniques;
(3) Flight monitoring, including:
(i) Available flight-monitoring procedures; and
(ii) Alternate flight-monitoring procedures;
(4) Air traffic control, including:

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