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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

§ 135.619 

(i) Airspace; 
(ii) Air traffic control procedures; 
(iii) Aeronautical charts; and 
(iv) Aeronautical data sources; 
(5) Aviation communication, includ-

ing: 

(i) Available aircraft communica-

tions systems; 

(ii) Normal communication proce-

dures; 

(iii) Abnormal communication proce-

dures; and 

(iv) Emergency communication pro-

cedures; 

(6) Aircraft systems, including: 
(i) Communications systems; 
(ii) Navigation systems; 
(iii) Surveillance systems; 
(iv) Fueling systems; 
(v) Specialized systems; 
(vi) General maintenance require-

ments; and 

(vii) Minimum equipment lists; 
(7) Aircraft limitations and perform-

ance, including: 

(i) Aircraft operational limitations; 
(ii) Aircraft performance; 
(iii) Weight and balance procedures 

and limitations; and 

(iv) Landing zone and landing facility 

requirements; 

(8) Aviation policy and regulations, 

including: 

(i) 14 CFR Parts 1, 27, 29, 61, 71, 91, 

and 135; 

(ii) 49 CFR Part 830; 
(iii) Company operations specifica-

tions; 

(iv) Company general operations poli-

cies; 

(v) Enhanced operational control 

policies; 

(vi) Aeronautical decision making 

and risk management; 

(vii) Lost aircraft procedures; and 
(viii) Emergency and search and res-

cue procedures, including plotting co-
ordinates in degrees, minutes, seconds 
format, and degrees, decimal minutes 
format; 

(9) Crew resource management, in-

cluding: 

(i) Concepts and practical applica-

tion; 

(ii) Risk management and risk miti-

gation; and 

(iii) Pre-flight risk analysis proce-

dures required under § 135.617; 

(10) Local flying area orientation, in-

cluding: 

(i) Terrain features; 
(ii) Obstructions; 
(iii) Weather phenomena for local 

area; 

(iv) Airspace and air traffic control 

facilities; 

(v) Heliports, airports, landing zones, 

and fuel facilities; 

(vi) Instrument approaches; 
(vii) Predominant air traffic flow; 
(viii) Landmarks and cultural fea-

tures, including areas prone to flat- 
light, whiteout, and brownout condi-
tions; and 

(ix) Local aviation and safety re-

sources and contact information; and 

(11) Any other requirements as deter-

mined by the Administrator to ensure 
safe operations. 

(g) 

Operations control specialist duty 

time limitations. 

(1) Each certificate 

holder must establish the daily duty 
period for an operations control spe-
cialist so that it begins at a time that 
allows that person to become thor-
oughly familiar with operational con-
siderations, including existing and an-
ticipated weather conditions in the 
area of operations, helicopter oper-
ations in progress, and helicopter 
maintenance status, before performing 
duties associated with any helicopter 
air ambulance operation. The oper-
ations control specialist must remain 
on duty until relieved by another 
qualified operations control specialist 
or until each helicopter air ambulance 
monitored by that person has com-
pleted its flight or gone beyond that 
person’s jurisdiction. 

(2) Except in cases where cir-

cumstances or emergency conditions 
beyond the control of the certificate 
holder require otherwise— 

(i) No certificate holder may sched-

ule an operations control specialist for 
more than 10 consecutive hours of 
duty; 

(ii) If an operations control specialist 

is scheduled for more than 10 hours of 
duty in 24 consecutive hours, the cer-
tificate holder must provide that per-
son a rest period of at least 8 hours at 
or before the end of 10 hours of duty; 

(iii) If an operations control spe-

cialist is on duty for more than 10 con-
secutive hours, the certificate holder 
must provide that person a rest period 

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