BR-ANAC-ITRP flashcards

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ANAC mandate

Brazil's civil aviation authority, responsible for regulation, certification, oversight, and enforcement across aircraft, operators, personnel, and airports under the Código Brasileiro de Aeronáutica.

RBAC meaning

Regulamento Brasileiro da Aviação Civil: the national regulation series issued by ANAC that gives domestic legal effect to ICAO standards and prescribes operator obligations.

Código Brasileiro de Aeronáutica

Lei 7.565/1986, the statute that establishes the legal framework for Brazilian civil aviation and outranks ANAC resolutions where they conflict.

Rulemaking consultation stage

Before issuing a resolution, ANAC publishes a draft and Regulatory Impact Analysis for public consultation, then responds and publishes the final text in the Diário Oficial.

Air Operator Certificate

ANAC document authorizing an operator to conduct specified kinds of commercial operation, limited by the operating specifications attached to the certificate.

Type certificate

Approval of an aircraft design against the applicable airworthiness code, establishing the configuration to which each individual aircraft must conform.

Certificate of Airworthiness

Per-aircraft document confirming the aircraft conforms to its approved type design and is maintained under an approved program; it lapses if conformity is lost.

Airworthiness Directive

A mandatory airworthiness requirement issued to correct an unsafe condition, specifying the affected aircraft, the required action, and the compliance time.

Minimum Equipment List

Operator-specific, ANAC-approved document listing equipment that may be inoperative for dispatch, with the conditions and procedures that apply to each item.

MSG-3 maintenance logic

A task-development method that derives maintenance requirements from the consequences of failure, distinguishing safety, operational, economic, and hidden-failure effects.

Final reserve fuel

Fuel that must remain at landing, computed from holding at a defined altitude for a defined period; it is not usable for normal flight planning.

Operational control

The operator's authority and responsibility over flight initiation, continuation, diversion, and termination, exercised jointly with the pilot in command's in-flight authority.

Pilot in command authority

Final authority over the aircraft in flight, including deviation from rules when necessary in an emergency, subject to reporting the deviation afterward.

Approach category minima

Decision heights and visibility limits for Category I, II, and III approaches, tied to aircraft equipment, crew qualification, and specific runway approval.

MEL route evaluation

Before dispatch, each deferral must be checked against the specific flight's route and conditions, since some deferrals are prohibited for particular operations.

Type rating requirements

Approved training, a knowledge examination, and a practical test are required before exercising privileges on an aircraft type, with recurrent checks at set intervals.

Recency versus licence validity

Holding a valid licence is not sufficient; recent experience within the prescribed preceding period must be met before acting as pilot in command.

Check airman designation

Authority to conduct proficiency or competency checks granted to a specifically designated individual; checks by undesignated persons do not create a valid qualification.

Medical certificate condition

A valid medical certificate of the required class is a condition of exercising licence privileges; the class and validity period depend on the privilege and age.

SMS four components

Safety policy and objectives, safety risk management, safety assurance, and safety promotion form the structure required of an operator's safety management system.

Safety risk formula

Risk is assessed as the combination of severity and likelihood on a documented matrix, then mitigated to an acceptable or tolerable level with the rationale recorded.

Just culture distinction

A policy separating inadvertent error, which receives protective treatment, from reckless or intentional conduct, which may receive disciplinary treatment.

Occurrence notification

Accidents and serious incidents must be notified promptly to the investigating authority and to ANAC, in addition to the operator's required occurrence report.

Dangerous goods classes

Nine classes covering explosives, gases, flammables, oxidizers, toxics, radioactive material, corrosives, and miscellaneous items, each with packing and documentation rules.

NOTOC purpose

Notification to the captain giving the location and nature of dangerous goods loaded, required to be delivered before departure so the crew can respond to an incident.

Hidden dangerous goods

Items whose contents are not obvious from the shipment description, such as batteries, aerosols, or fuels, requiring acceptance staff to question the shipper.

Known consignor concept

A cargo security arrangement in which a vetted shipper's consignments receive reduced screening because its premises and processes meet prescribed security standards.

Facilitation definition

The set of border formalities covering documents, immigration, customs, and health checks, implemented nationally from ICAO Annex 9 standards.

Advance passenger information

Manifest data transmitted to border authorities before arrival, used for immigration control; the operator is responsible for its accuracy.

Refusal of carriage grounds

Carriage may be refused only on documented grounds such as safety, security, health, or document deficiency; arbitrary refusal creates enforcement and civil exposure.

Enforcement due process

Before a sanction is imposed, the operator receives notice of the alleged infraction, its legal basis, and a defined period to present a defence.

Corrective action plan closure

Closure of an inspection finding requires a root-cause analysis and evidence that the corrective action was implemented, not merely a stated intention to comply.

Sanction escalation

Repeat findings within a defined period raise the sanction level; the enforcement file must document the prior finding to support the escalation.