PART 119—CERTIFICATION: AIR CARRIERS AND COMMERCIAL OPERATORSBeaker wrote:LD- Is your Ops Manual basically an agreement with the FAA to replace some or all of the FARs? i.e. does it give you legal rights?
Operations Specifications is a document authorized and signed by the FAA for each specific operator, so it supersedes the applicable parts of the FARs. (That being said, it's often more restrictive, but allows us to continue operating in some pretty low conditions as long as a lot of requirements are met).119.7 Operations specifications.
(a) Each certificate holder's operations specifications must contain—
(1) The authorizations, limitations, and certain procedures under which each kind of operation, if applicable, is to be conducted; and
(2) Certain other procedures under which each class and size of aircraft is to be operated.
(b) Except for operations specifications paragraphs identifying authorized kinds of operations, operations specifications are not a part of a certificate.
Basically the Op Specs tells the certificate holder (i.e. airline or operator) how to operate by supplementing-, authorizing-, altering-, and/or limiting the regs. For instance, our alternate minimums are not the same as the standard Part 91 alternate mins, and that sort of information would be found in the Op Specs. How to derive our alternate mins, what type and number of navaids are required and so on for us to use alternates with weather below standard alternate mins...
