Special Operations
Definition of high Risk Operation in Icelandic airspace
- Operation over any congested area of a city, town, settlement or over any open assembly of persons at a height where;
• in the event of an engine failure performance is not available to enable the aircraft to safely continue the flight, nor to perform a forced landing out of the congested area;
• at height below a height of 1000 ft over-congested area or 500 ft in other areas.
- Helicopter operations with external loads operations over congested areas with a combination of height and speed that does not enable to perform a safe forced landing in the event of an engine failure.
- Helicopter external loads operations over congested areas.
- Helicopter external loads with any pollutants that might pollute soil, water or atmosphere.
- Human external cargo operations where the helicopter is unable to perform one engine inoperative out-of-ground effect hover (including heli-skiing where a helicopter does not land fully when skiers leave the helicopter).
An operator must hold a high-risk-operation approval issued by the NCAA and that approval must be approved by The Icelandic Transport Authority/ICETRA.