History — 604.170

604.170 (1) The aircraft operation component of the training program for flight crew members shall include procedures for the normal, abnormal and emergency operation of an aircraft and its systems and components, including the following elements: (a) aircraft performance during take-off, climb, cruise, holding, descent, landing and diversion; (b) calculations of the aircraft’s take-off and landing distances and speeds, and the aircraft’s fuel consumption, weight and centre of gravity; (c) the flight characteristics of the aircraft, including any abnormal characteristics that are applicable to the aircraft, such as dutch roll, buffet boundary onset and aircraft upset; (d) the effects of airframe and engine icing and the use of de-icing and anti-icing equipment; (e) flight planning and instrument flight procedures, including (i) departure, enroute, holding, arrival and diversion procedures, (ii) precision, non-precision and missed approaches in minimum visibility conditions, with the flight director in automatic mode and in degraded states of operation, and (iii) circling approaches, if applicable; (f) pre-flight checks of the interior and exterior of the aircraft; (g) the use of ai…