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                              Pre Flight External Check by  Fight Crew   is part of the basis for the Captain's Aircraft Acceptance which must be formally recorded in the  Aircraft Technical Log  prior to every flight departure. It is primarily, therefore, a general visual inspection of those aspects of fitness of the aircraft for flight which can be verified wholly or partly in that way. Incidentally it also provides an opportunity to observe the environment in which the aircraft is parked and may sometimes allow the observation of aspects of aircraft hold loading and routine aircraft servicing. It is entirely unrelated to the separate requirements for appropriately qualified aircraft maintenance technicians to carry out scheduled checks and inspections necessary for the  Certificate of Release to Service  to be signed and, in some cases, to remain valid for the specif...

         (i) Minimum total cockpit experience level of the crew as PIC and Co-Pilot should not be less than 500 hours on type.          (ii) No supervised take-offs and landings in actual adverse weather/monsoon conditions.          (iii) Approach briefing prior to Top of Descent shall include wet/contaminated Actual Landing Distance calculation. Scheduled Operators shall prepare a quick analysis table for use during normal operations for wet/contaminated ALD and 1.15*ALD in view of the high cockpit work-load environment.          (iv) A list of commanders operating as PICs for the first monsoon on type is to be forwarded to Flight Standards Directorate, DGCA Hqrs., by all the Operators, by 15th of May of every year. The names of Commanders released on type subsequent to this date till the onset of pre-monsoon shall also be forwarded at the earliest.         ...

                           The following equipment shall be serviceable during adverse weather/monsoon conditions  (a) For aircraft requiring transponder and TCAS, both must be serviceable. (b) GPWS/EGPWS must be serviceable. (c) All deceleration devices including Thrust reversers must be serviceable. (d) Anti-skid system must be serviceable. (e) Wind shield wipers (where fitted) on both sides must be serviceable. (f) Anti – icing and de-icing must be serviceable. (g) At least one Weather RADAR system must be serviceable. (h) Groove on tyres must be visible out of base stations.                 CIVIL AVIATION REQUIREMENTS SECTION 8 SERIES ‘C’ PART I .