Iraq Civil Aviation Authority Regulations

ICAR 20 – Operations
PART X:
REST PERIODS, DUTY, AND FLIGHT TIME:
COMMERCIAL AIR TRANSPORT
November-2009
Contents
ICAR 20 PART X REST PERIODS, DUTY, AND FLIGHT TIME: COMMERCIAL AIR TRANSPORT .... 3
ICAR 20.1 Citation .................................................................................................................... 3
ICAR 20.2 Definitions and Abbreviations ................................................................................ 3
ICAR 20.276 Applicability ......................................................................................................... 5
ICAR 20.277 Duty and Rest Periods ......................................................................................... 5
ICAR 20.278 Duty Aloft ............................................................................................................ 6
ICAR 20.279 Maximum Number of Flight Time Hours ............................................................ 6
ICAR 20.280 Compliance with Scheduling Requirements ....................................................... 6
ICAR 20.281 Flight Duty Schemes ............................................................................................ 6
ICAR 20.282 Flight Time, Duty and Rest Period Records ......................................................... 6
ICAR 20.283 RESERVED ............................................................................................................ 7
ICAR 20.284 RESERVED ............................................................................................................ 7
ICAR 20.285 RESERVED ............................................................................................................ 7
ICAR 20.286 RESERVED ............................................................................................................ 7
ICAR 20.287 RESERVED ............................................................................................................ 7
ICAR 20.288 RESERVED ............................................................................................................ 7
ICAR 20.289 RESERVED ............................................................................................................ 7
ICAR 20.290 RESERVED ............................................................................................................ 7

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ICAR 20 PART X REST PERIODS, DUTY, AND FLIGHT TIME: COMMERCIAL AIR
TRANSPORT

ICAR 20.1 Citation

These Regulations may be cited as Regulations No. 20 (Operations).

ICAR 20.2 Definitions and Abbreviations

In these Regulations:

Term Definition
means any person, organisation or enterprise who undertakes to
engage in domestic commercial air transport in international
“air operator”
commercial air transport, whether directly or indirectly or by a lease
in any other arrangement;
means a person employed to facilitate the safety of passengers,
“cabin crew” whose duties are detailed by the air operator or the pilot in
command;
means the period of elapsed time, using Coordinated Universal Time
“day” or local time that begins at midnight and ends 24:00 later at the next
midnight;
“crew” means any member of the flight crew or cabin crew;
means all time spent by the crew member transiting between the
“deadhead
place of rest and the place of reporting for duty and does not count
transportation”
as duty time;
means any continuous period during which a crew member is
“duty” required to carry out any task associated with the business of an air
operator;
means those members of the crew of an aircraft who act as a pilot in
“flight crew”
command, co-pilot or flight engineer;
means any time during which a person operates in an aircraft as a
“flight duty member of its crew and begins when the crew member is required
period” by the air operator to report for a flight duty and finishes at the end
of flight time on the final sector;
“flight” means one or more sectors and defined by a flight number;
means the total time from the moment an aeroplane first moves
“flight time” under its own power for the purpose of taking off until the moment
it finally comes to rest at the end of the flight;
means the total time from the moment a helicopter’s rotor blade
“flight time starts turning for the purpose of lift -off until the moment the
(helicopter)” helicopter finally comes to rest at the end of the flight, and the rotor
blades are stopped;
means a person, organization or enterprise who has been issued an
“national air
Iraq air operator certificate in accordance with the Regulations No. 3
operator”
(Air Operators Certification and Administration);

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 Term Definition
means:
(a) A person, organization or enterprise engaged in or offering to
engage in, aircraft operations and any person who causes or
authorizes the operation of an aircraft, in the capacity of owner,
“operator” lessee, or otherwise whether with or without the control of the
aircraft;
(b) Who or which is deemed to be engaged in the operation of
aircraft within the meaning of the Civil Aviation Law No. 148 of
1974;
means the practice of transferring crews from place to place as
“positioning”
passengers in surface or air transport on behalf of the air operator;
means the time at which a crew member is required by the air
“reporting time”
operator to report for duty;
means a period during which the air operator requires a crew
“reserve duty” member who would otherwise be off duty to be available for flight
duty;
means a period of time before starting a flying duty period that is
“rest period” designed to give crew members adequate opportunity to rest before
a flight;
means a planned duty period, or series of duty periods, with
“rostered duty” stipulated start and finish times, notified by the air operator to
crews in advance;
means a period of consecutive days which the air operator shall
“rostering period”
roster duty and rest periods notified by the air operator in advance;
means the allocation of specific flights or other duties to a crew
“scheduled duty”
member within the pre-notified rostered series of duty periods;
means the time between an aircraft moving under its own power
“sector” until it next comes to rest after landing, at the designated parking
position;
“short haul means flights where the origins and destinations are less than 3:00
operation” time change apart;
means a flying duty period which consists of two or more sectors
“split duty”
separated by less than a minimum rest period;
means a furnished bedroom which is subject to minimum noise, is
“suitable
well ventilated and has the facility to control the levels of light and
accommodation”
temperature;

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ICAR 20.276 Applicability
This section is applicable to the rest, duty and flight time limitations of crewmembers
and flight operations officers/flight dispatchers engaged in commercial air transport
flight operations.

ICAR 20.277 Duty and Rest Periods

With respect to duty periods:
(1) Persons are considered to be on duty if they are performing any tasks on behalf of
the AOC holder, whether scheduled, requested or self-initiated.
(2) If an AOC holder requires a flight crewmember to engage in deadhead transportation
for more than 4:00, one half of that time shall be treated as duty time, unless they
are given 10:00 of rest on the ground before being assigned to flight duty.
(3) No AOC holder may schedule:
(a) A flight crewmember for more than 13:00 of duty, except as prescribed by the
Authority.
(b) A cabin crew for more than 13:00 consecutive of duty, except as prescribed by the
Authority.
(c) A flight operations officer/aircraft dispatcher for more than 10:00 consecutive of
duty within a 24:00 consecutive period, unless that person is given an intervening
rest period.
(4) With respect to rest periods:
(a) The minimum rest period is considered to be 11:00 consecutive.
(b) The minimum rest period for flight crewmembers shall be 11:00 consecutive,
unless otherwise prescribed by the Authority.
(c) The AOC holder may exercise the option to reduce a crewmember’s rest period
within the limitations prescribed under the applicable regulations.
(d) The AOC holder shall relieve the flight crewmember, flight operations officer/flight
dispatcher, or cabin crew from all duties for 24:00 consecutive during any 7
consecutive day period.
(e) Time spent in transportation, not local in character, that is required by the AOC
holder to position crewmembers to or from flights is not considered part of a rest
period.
(f) Time spent in transportation on aircraft (at the insistence of the AOC holder) to or
from a crewmember’s home station is not considered part of a rest period.
(5) No AOC holder may assign, nor may any person:
(a) Perform duties in commercial air transportation unless that person has had at
least the minimum rest period applicable to those duties as prescribed by the
Authority; or
(b) Accept an assignment to any duty with the AOC holder during any required rest
period.

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ICAR 20.278 Duty Aloft
(1) The Authority will consider all time spent on an aircraft as an assigned or relief flight
crewmember, whether resting or performing tasks to be duty aloft.
(2) The Authority will consider a flight crewmember to be on continuous duty aloft
unless the flight crewmember receives a rest period of 8:00 consecutive on the
ground.
(3) Each AOC holder shall provide adequate sleeping quarters, including a berth on the
aeroplane whenever a flight crewmember is scheduled to be aloft for more than
12:00 during any 24:00 consecutive.

ICAR 20.279 Maximum Number of Flight Time Hours

(1) No person may schedule any flight crewmember and no flight crewmember may
accept an assignment for flight time in commercial air transportation, if that flight
crewmember’s total flight time will exceed 10:00 in any 24:00 consecutive.
(2) No person may schedule any flight crewmember and no flight crewmember may
accept an assignment as a required crewmember for more than 7 flights in
commercial air transportation during any period of 18:00 consecutive, whichever
comes first.
(3) No person may schedule any flight crewmember and no flight crewmember may
accept an assignment for flight time in commercial air transportation, if that flight
crewmember’s total flight time will exceed 30:00 in any 7-day period.
(4) No person may schedule any flight crewmember and no flight crewmember may
accept an assignment for flight time in commercial air transportation, if that flight
crewmember’s total flight time will exceed 100:00 in any 30-day period.
(5) No person may schedule any flight crewmember and no flight crewmember may
accept an assignment for flight time in commercial air transportation, if that flight
crewmember’s total flight time, total flights or duty aloft in commercial flying will
exceed the limitations prescribed by the Authority.

ICAR 20.280 Compliance with Scheduling Requirements

(1) The Authority will consider a person in compliance with prescribed standards if that
person exceeds flight/duty limitations when:
(a) The flight is scheduled and normally terminates within the prescribed limitations;
but
(b) Due to circumstances beyond the control of the AOC holder (such as adverse
weather conditions) are not expected at the time of departure to reach the
destination within the scheduled time.
(2) The Authority will consider a person in compliance with prescribed duty limitations, if
that person exceeds applicable limitations during an emergency or adverse situations
beyond the control of the AOC holder.

ICAR 20.281 Flight Duty Schemes

(1) The Authority may approve a special flight duty scheme for an AOC holder.
(2) An AOC holder may elect to apply the flight crewmember flight duty and rest
requirements to the cabin crews.

ICAR 20.282 Flight Time, Duty and Rest Period Records

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 (1) Each AOC holder shall maintain current records of each crewmember and flight
operations officer/flight dispatcher documenting their compliance with the
applicable flight time, duty and rest period limitations of this Part.

ICAR 20.283 RESERVED

ICAR 20.284 RESERVED
ICAR 20.285 RESERVED
ICAR 20.286 RESERVED
ICAR 20.287 RESERVED
ICAR 20.288 RESERVED
ICAR 20.289 RESERVED
ICAR 20.290 RESERVED

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