Part 121 (Australian Air Transport Operations—Larger Aeroplanes) Manual of Standards 2020
Division 5General conditions on EDTO approvals
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Division 5—General conditions on EDTO approvals
2.21 Scope of Division 5, Chapter 2
For the purposes of regulation 11.068 of CASR, this Division imposes conditions on EDTO approvals.
2.22 EDTO procedures—flight dispatcher duties
(1) It is a condition on an EDTO approval issued to an aeroplane operator that the operator must have procedures in the operator’s exposition to ensure that, during flight planning for an EDTO flight of an aeroplane, the flight dispatcher meets the requirement in subsection (2). (2) For subsection (1), the flight dispatcher must consider the potential routes and altitudes that would be necessary for diversion to an EDTO en‑route alternate aerodrome when determining whether immediate satellite-based voice communications, required by subsection 11.08(3), are available.
2.23 Training and checking—flight dispatchers
(1) It is a condition on an EDTO approval issued to an aeroplane operator that the operator must ensure that any flight dispatcher, who has responsibilities for the dispatch of the aeroplane on an EDTO flight, has received the training required by this section for the person before carrying out the duties and responsibilities of a flight dispatcher for the flight.
(2) The operator must ensure that the training and checking mentioned in paragraph 119.170(4)(a) of CASR, in relation to a flight dispatcher, covers the following content:
(a) contingency procedures for each area of operation intended to be used for EDTO flights;
(b) diversion procedures and diversion decision-making processes;
(c) the requirements of the civil aviation legislation in relation to extended diversion time operations.
2.24 Quarterly EDTO summary reports—2‑engine aeroplanes
(1) It is a condition on an EDTO approval issued to an aeroplane operator that the operator must prepare a summary report, in respect of an aeroplane used to conduct extended diversion time operations under the approval, available to CASA on request, for: (a) the 3-month period beginning the day after being granted the EDTO approval; and (b) each 3-month period beginning the day after the end of the previous 3‑month period;