AMC2 SPA.LVO.105(c) Specific approval criteria

CAA ORS9 Decision No. 47

Text in magenta in force from 30 October 2025

OPERATING PROCEDURES — GENERAL

1. Operating procedures should be established for all types of LVOs and operations with operational credits for which an operator is seeking approval. The operating procedures should:

   1. be consistent with the AFM;

   2. be appropriate to the technology and equipment to be used;

   3. specify the duties and responsibilities of each flight crew member in each relevant phase of flight;

   4. ensure that flight crew workload is managed to facilitate effective decision-making and monitoring of the aircraft; and

   5. minimise, as much as practical, the deviation from normal procedures used for routine operations (non-LVOs).

2. Operating procedures should include:

   1. the required checks for the satisfactory functioning of the aircraft equipment, both before departure and in flight;

   2. the correct seating and eye position;

   3. determination of aerodrome operating minima;

   4. the increment to be added to minima for use by pilots-in-command/commanders who are new to the aircraft type, if applicable;

   5. the effect on aerodrome operating minima of temporarily failed or downgraded ground equipment;

   6. the effect on aerodrome operating minima of the failure or change of the status of any aircraft systems;

   7. when the LVPs at the aerodrome are required. LVPs are required:

      1. for low-visibility flight approach operations;

      2. for LVTOs with RVR less than 400 m.

      If an operator selects an aerodrome with equivalent procedures, where the term ‘LVPs’ is not used (e.g. regional procedures), the operator should verify that suitable procedures are established to ensure an equivalent level of safety to that achieved at approved aerodromes. This situation should be clearly noted in the operations manual or procedures manual, including guidance to the flight crew on how to determine that the suitable procedures are in effect at the time of an actual operation. Note: the AFM may state that some elements of LVPs are not required and therefore the equivalent level of safety may be established on that basis;

   8. a requirement for an ‘approaching minima’ call-out to prevent inadvertent descent below the DA/H;

   9. the requirement for height call-outs below 200 ft to be based on the use of a radio altimeter or other device capable of providing equivalent performance, if applicable;

   10. the required visual references;

   11. the action to be taken in the event of loss of the required visual references; and

   12. the maximum allowable flight path deviations and action to be taken in the event that such deviations occur.

3. Operators required to comply with the requirements of Annex III (Part-ORO) to this Regulation should include operating procedures in the operations manual as required by ORO.MLR.100. The operators to which Part-ORO does not apply should include the operating procedures in a ‘procedures manual’.