The FAA on Wednesday, March 16, issued a policy notice to correct an error made when it issued its helicopter safety rule two years ago. Specifically, it corrected operations specification (OpSpec) paragraph A021.

The helicopter safety rule “made provisions allowing HAA aircraft to operate under instrument flight rules (IFR) at locations without weather reporting if authorized by the Administrator. Provisions for this type of authorization were formerly contained in OpSpec paragraph A021; however, with the adoption of the new rules the provisions were inadvertently removed from that paragraph. This change to the paragraph adds the authorization back into OpSpec paragraph A021j by adding the verbiage, ‘The certificate holder, if authorized to conduct helicopter air ambulance (HAA) operations under IFR, is authorized to conduct those operations under the provisions of § 135.611.'”