Originally Posted by
portsharbourflyer
SEPP you need to go a few pages down on the regulation.
(snip)
portsharbourflyer : Negative, what you have provided is from the text of the
AMC (remember, it means Acceptable Means of Compliance) - which is neither a regulation nor exclusively binding. It simply provides ONE bare-bones minimum way of satisfying the regulation that will be automatically approved. You can go beyond, deviate from or even disregard the AMC completely if you like. As the method you choose has to be provided in the Operations Manual and requires the blessing of 'the Competent Authority'; anything less considered than what's in the AMC will likely not ever be approved, as the Authority has to justify it to EASA - but please don't think you HAVE to use a three-tier A, B, C bottom-to-top system with criteria chosen and applied as in the AMC.
My '(etc.)' replaced the last bit of the regulation which reads:
(d) Point (c) shall not apply in the case of :
1)performance class B aeroplanes involved in commercial air transport operations under VFR by day; and
(2)commercial air transport operations of passengers conducted under VFR by day, starting and ending at the same aerodrome or operating site or within a local area specified by the competent authority, with other-than complex motor-powered helicopters, single-engined, with a MOPSC of 5.
and that's it.
Check the regulation for yourself
here .