IAM.GEN.VCA.100 Crew responsibilities

ANNEX IX (Part-IAM) · Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 · EAR revision 27 Mar 2026

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IAM.GEN.VCA.100Crew responsibilities

(a)Pilots and other crew members shall be responsible for the proper execution of their duties that are:

(1)related to the safety of the VCA and its occupants; and

(2)specified in the operations manual (OM) of the VCA operator.

(b)Pilots and other crew members shall comply with all of the following:

(1)report, if not already reported, to the pilot-in-command (PIC) any fault, failure, malfunction or defect which they believe may affect the airworthiness or safe operation of the VCA, including emergency systems;

(2)report, if not already reported, to the PIC any incident that has endangered, or could have endangered, the safety of the operation of the VCA;

(3)comply with the relevant requirements of the operator’s occurrence-reporting scheme;

(4)comply with the flight time, duty time and rest requirements applicable to their activities;

(5)not disable or switch off the recorders during flight, or intentionally erase their recordings.

(c)Pilots and other crew members shall not perform duties related to the operation of VCA if they are in any of the following situations:

(1)when they are under the influence of psychoactive substances or when they are unfit due to injury, fatigue, medication, sickness or other similar causes;

(2)when they do not fulfil applicable medical requirements;

(3)when they are in any doubt as to being able to accomplish their assigned duties;

(4)when they know or suspect they suffer from fatigue as referred to in point 7.5 of Annex V to Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 or otherwise feel unfit to the extent that the safety of the flight may be endangered.

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COPIES OF REPORTS Where a written report is required, a copy of the report should be communicated to the PIC concerned unless the terms of the operator’s reporting scheme dictate otherwise.

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ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION The operator should issue instructions concerning the consumption of alcohol by crew members. The instructions should not be less restrictive than the following:

(a)no alcohol should be consumed for at least 8 hours before the specified reporting time for a flight duty period or the commencement of standby;

(b)the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) should not exceed the lower limit of that defined in national regulations or 0.02 %, which is 0.2 grams of alcohol per litre of blood, at the start of a flight duty period;

(c)no alcohol should be consumed during the flight duty period or while on standby.

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contains the relevant requirements for the operator’s occurrence-reporting scheme.

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FLIGHT TIME, DUTY TIME AND REST REQUIREMENTS

(a)Point IAM.GEN.VCA.100(b)(4) does not reckon that VCA operators, their pilots and other crew members should comply with the flight time, duty time and rest requirements (FTL) contained in Subpart FTL of Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 which applies to aircrew in CAT operations with aeroplanes.

(b)With regard to VCA operations, flight time, duty time and rest requirements are established by the operator in accordance with the relevant requirements specified in the national law of the Member State in which the operator has its principal place of business, or, where the operator has no principal place of business, the place where the operator is established or resides.

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ELAPSED TIME BEFORE RETURNING TO FLYING DUTY

(a)24 hours is a suitable minimum period of time to be allowed for before returning to flying duties after normal blood donation or normal recreational (sport) diving with compressed air.

(b)Information on the effects of medication, drugs, other treatments and alcohol may be found in Annex IV (Part-MED) to Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011.

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All rules in SUBPART A — GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

Consolidated from the EASA Easy Access Rules (revision 27 Mar 2026, extracted 17 Aug 2026) for convenience. Not the official publication — verify against the Official Journal of the European Union and the EASA publications before operational use.

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