Singapore legislation
Regulation 139
of Air Navigation (135 — Commercial Air Transport by Helicopters and Small Aeroplanes) Regulations 2018
Regulation 139
Training programmes — general
Subregulation 1
An AOC holder must have a ground and flight training programme for its operations personnel that is approved by the Director‑General of Civil Aviation.
Subregulation 2
The ground and flight training programme established for the purposes of paragraph (1) —
must ensure that every person that is assigned to be a member of an AOC holder’s operations personnel is adequately trained and competent to perform the person’s assigned duties; and
must include —
recurrent training that takes place at least annually;
assessments of competence in the person’s assigned duties as a member of the operations personnel; and
the syllabus for each type of training to be conducted.
Subregulation 3
An AOC holder must ensure that every person that is to be assigned duty as a crew member for a flight of a relevant aircraft is trained in accordance with its approved training programme.
Subregulation 4
An AOC holder must ensure that the details of its approved training programme form Part D of the Operations Manual.
Subregulation 5
An AOC holder must ensure that every person responsible for providing training —
is appropriately qualified to do so; and
is provided with a copy of the current training manual or equivalent and any other document relevant for the person to provide training.
Subregulation 6
An AOC holder must ensure that the approved training programme is conducted safely and without unacceptable risk to the equipment, personnel or third parties.
Subregulation 7
An AOC holder must ensure that all training in aircraft procedures are carried out in —
an aircraft of the type to be used by the crew member; or
an appropriate training equipment.