History — 604.53

604.53 No person shall file a flight plan indicating that an aircraft operated by a private operator can be operated in accordance with Canadian minimum navigation performance specifications (CMNPS) or required navigation performance capability (RNPC) unless (a) the private operator is authorized under a special authorization to operate the aircraft in accordance with CMNPS or RNPC; (b) every flight crew member has received CMNPS or RNPC 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 emergen…