Shawn,
Whilst your statement is true in the sense of basic certification (29.1), it would have to have been certificated with 9 or less seats. That would be rather unusual; for that reason, the overwhelming majority (in fact I cannot think of any to which it doesn't apply) of Part 29 helicopters have the HV diagram in their FM limitations section.
As Hullaballo has already pointed out, the majority of operations with Part 29 helicopters do not operate in PC1 using the CAT A procedures. In fact for offshore operations, none of them do. It is only because of the relief from the HV diagram provided by FAR 91.9(d) and Appendix 1 to JAR-OPS 3.005(c) that they are able to stay legal (and it is not clear how that plays out in States with other regulations).
For onshore operations, JARs have relief but not FARs!
Jim
Last edited by JimL; 1st Jul 2009 at 16:50.