FOREWORD

(a) The Civil Aviation Requirements for Civil Aviation Regulation Change Procedures have been issued by the Public Authority for Civil Aviation of Sultanate of Oman (hereinafter referred as PACA) under the provisions of the Civil Aviation Law of the Sultanate of Oman.

(b) CAR-M prescribes the requirements for

(1) The format and structure of CARs;

(2) The development of CARs and amendments to CARs until their publication;

(3) Establishing transitional periods for compliance with new or amended regulations

(c) Amendments to the text in CAR-M are issued as a complete amendment of pages contained within. New, amended and corrected text will be enclosed within brackets until a subsequent ‘Change’ is issued

(d) The editing practices used in this document are as follows:

(1) ‘ shall’ is used to indicate a mandatory requirement and may appear in CARs.

(2) ‘Should’ is used to indicate a recommendation and normally appears in AMCs and GM.

(3) ‘May’ is used to indicate discretion by the Authority, or the industry as appropriate, as appropriate.

(4) ‘Will’ indicates a mandatory requirement and is used to advise of action incumbent on the Authority.