History — 604.55

604.55 (1) No person shall file a flight plan indicating that an aircraft operated by a private operator can be operated in accordance with North Atlantic minimum navigation performance specifications (NAT-MNPS) unless (a) the private operator is authorized under a special authorization to operate the aircraft in accordance with NAT-MNPS; (b) every flight crew member has received NAT-MNPS training, for which the validity period has not expired, in (i) normal operating procedures, including long-range navigation system pre-flight data entry and periodic cross-checking of the system position display against the aircraft position, (ii) the method of monitoring and cross-checking the long-range navigation system that is coupled to the auto-pilot, (iii) the actions to be taken in the event of a discrepancy among long-range navigation systems, and the method of determining which is the most accurate or reliable system, (iv) contingency procedures, (v) the actions to be taken in the event of a failure of one or more long-range navigation systems, (vi) the procedure for manually updating long-range navigation systems, (vii) airborne emergency procedures, including realignment, if applicabl…