Instrument number CASA EX29/05
I, BRUCE ROBERT GEMMELL, Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer, a delegate of CASA, make this instrument under regulation 308 of the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 (CAR 1988).
Bruce Gemmell
Chief Operating Officer
Exemption — from take-off minima inside Australian territory
1 Duration
This instrument:
(a) commences on 1 August 2005; and
(b) stops having effect at the end of July 2008.
2 Application
This instrument applies to aeroplanes:
(a) operated by Qantas Airways Ltd under air operator’s certificate number 216147 (the operator); and
(b) in take-off operations inside Australian territory; and
(c) at aerodromes where the meteorological minima includes runway visibility range (RVR) of at least 300 metres along the runway at the touchdown zone and at the mid-point (or stop-end if mid-point visibility is not available).
3 Exemption
The aeroplanes are exempt from compliance with subregulation 257 (3) of CAR 1988 in relation to the standard take-off minima determined by CASA under subregulation 257 (1) of CAR 1988 and set out in AIP En-route 1.5, section 4.3.
4 Conditions
The exemption is subject to the conditions mentioned in Schedule 1.
Schedule 1 Conditions
1 An aeroplane may take off with RVR:
(a) if runway edge lighting (with light spacing of not more than 60 metres) is operating and either runway centreline lighting is operating or runway centreline markings are clearly visible — less than 500 metres but at least 400 metres; and
(b) if runway edge lighting (with light spacing of not more than 60 metres) is operating and runway centreline lighting is operating — less than 400 metres but at least 300 metres.
2 Before conducting a take-off, each pilot must have successfully completed, in an approved flight simulator, a low visibility take-off training program approved by CASA.
3 The flight crew must have successfully completed, to approved operational and meteorological limits, a simulator competency check including a near V1 engine failure (RTO) and a V1 engine failure (continue).
4 The flight crew must demonstrate competency in Low Visibility Operations:
(a) if there are 2 or 3 sessions each year — at each recurrent training session; or
(b) if there are 4 sessions each year — at each alternate recurrent training session.
5 At least once a year competency must be demonstrated to a Category A or Category B Check Pilot.
6 A low visibility take-off may only be conducted:
(a) in accordance with the operator’s operations manual; and
(b) when air traffic control low visibility procedures are in place at the aerodrome.
7 The aeroplane must not take-off from a runway that requires a turn of more than 15, at either the runway head or below 200 feet, for all-engine or engine-out take-offs, if RVR is less than 500 metres.
8 A copy of this exemption must be kept in the operator’s operations manual.