Part 25TASK SPECIALIST TRAINING AND CHECKING

CHAPTER 25 TASK SPECIALIST TRAINING AND CHECKING

25.01 Application

Unless it provides otherwise, this Chapter applies to the following (an operator):

25.02 Required training and checking

(1) For subregulation 138.580 (3), the operator must ensure that, before performing unsupervised duties on a flight (the relevant duties), a task specialist is competent in carrying out the operator’s normal, abnormal and emergency procedures for the aircraft and the operation that are relevant to the task specialist’s duties for the flight (the relevant procedures).

Note The competency check in a simple operation may take the form of a pre-flight briefing by the pilot in command. But the operator should be satisfied that such a briefing can adequately cover the relevant procedures, and that the task specialist is competent to carry out them out.

(2) The training and checking procedures for ensuring task specialist competency must be:

(a) appropriate to:

(i) the nature, size and complexity of the aircraft and the operation; and

(ii) the nature and complexity of the relevant duties; and

(b) for an aerial work certificate holder — set out in the holder’s operations manual or training and checking manual (as applicable); and

(c) for a limited aerial work operator — communicated by the pilot in command in a pre-flight briefing.

(3) In this section:

unsupervised means not supervised by a person who meets the requirements mentioned in section 25.03 or 25.04, as applicable.

25.03 Conduct of training and checking by an aerial work certificate holder

(1) For subregulation 138.580 (3), this section applies to an aerial work certificate holder whether or not subregulation 138.125 (1) applies to the holder.

Note Under subregulation 138.125 (1), and sections 4.02, 4.03 and 4.04 of this MOS, certain aerial work certificate holders must have, or may have elected to have, or may have adopted, a formal training and checking system.

(2) For paragraph 138.590 (2) (b), the training and checking undertaken by a task specialist for an aerial work operation must be conducted by an individual who meets the requirements set out in subsection (3).

(3) For subsection (2), the individual must have met the minimum experience and entry control requirements for a task specialist trainer, or a task specialist checker, or a task specialist trainer and checker, as set out in the operator’s operations manual or training and checking manual (as applicable).

25.04 Conduct of training and checking by a limited aerial work operator