Instrument number CASA EX99/22

I, PHILIPPA JILLIAN SPENCE, Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, make this instrument under regulations 11.160, 11.205 and 11.245 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

[Signed P. Spence]

Pip Spence
Director of Aviation Safety

13 December 2022

CASA EX99/22 – Amendment of CASA EX84/21 (Miscellaneous Revisions) – Instrument 2022

1 Name

  This instrument is CASA EX99/22 – Amendment of CASA EX84/21 (Miscellaneous Revisions) – Instrument 2022.

2 Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Amendment of CASA EX84/21

  Schedule 1 amends CASA EX84/21 – Part 133 and Part 91 of CASR – Supplementary Exemptions and Directions Instrument 2021.

Schedule 1 Amendments

[1] Section 3, Definitions

insert

recognised foreign State has the meaning given by regulation 61.010 of CASR.

[2] After section 9B

insert

9C Flight crew training or check – foreign conductors of – exemption

 (1) This section applies to the operator of a rotorcraft for a flight that is a Part 133 operation.

 (2) The operator is exempted from compliance with regulation 133.377 in relation to training and checking, but only to the extent of who may conduct the training or checking.

 (3) The exemption in subsection (2) is subject to the condition that the training or checking for which the operator takes the benefit of the exemption must be conducted by a person who is:

(a) employed by a training provider authorised by the national aviation authority of a recognised foreign State to conduct training or a check equivalent to the training or check required by Part 133 of CASR that the operator has contracted the training provider to conduct for a flight crew member of the operator (the equivalent training or checking); and

(b) authorised by the national aviation authority of the recognised foreign State to conduct the equivalent training or checking.

 (4) It is also a condition of the exemption under subsection (2), that for training or checking for which the operator takes the benefit of the exemption, the operator must ensure that the head of training and checking ensures that:

(a) each person who conducts the training or checking for the foreign training provider mentioned in subsection (3) is appropriately authorised to conduct the training or checking; and

(b) the foreign training provider is notified, in writing, of any change in the operator’s exposition relating to the training or checking that the foreign training provider conducts under the contract.