Commonwealth legislation

CASA 59/17 - Authorisation and direction — passenger occupation of a control seat of aircraft registered with certain recreational aviation administration organisations

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

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This instrument allows passengers who aren't pilots to legally sit in the "control seat" (the seat with access to the aircraft's flight controls) of certain small recreational aircraft.

Normally, only qualified pilots or trainee pilots can occupy these seats under the Civil Aviation Regulations. This rule creates an exception for aircraft registered with three specific recreational aviation organisations:

Recreational Aviation Australia
Hang Gliding Federation of Australia
Australian Sport Rotorcraft Association

Key conditions:

The aircraft must have dual controls (two sets of controls)
The pilot must instruct the passenger on how to avoid accidentally touching the controls
The pilot must maintain communication with the passenger throughout the flight

This lets friends or family members sit up front in the cockpit of recreational aircraft (like ultralights or gyrocopters) for the experience, provided the pilot follows these safety steps.

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CASA 59/17 - Authorisation and direction — passenger occupation of a control seat of aircraft registered with certain recreational aviation administration organisations

Instrument number CASA 59/17

I, GRAEME MILLS CRAWFORD, Aviation Group Manager, a delegate of CASA, make this instrument under the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 and the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

[Signed G.M. Crawford]

Graeme M. Crawford
Aviation Group Manager

23 June 2017

Authorisation and direction — passenger occupation of a control seat of aircraft registered with certain recreational aviation administration organisations

1 Duration

This instrument:

(a) commences on 1 July 2017; and

(b) is repealed at the end of 30 June 2022.

2 Definitions

In this instrument:

recreational dual control aircraft means an aircraft equipped with fully or partially functioning dual controls that is registered with 1 of the following organisations:

(a) Recreational Aviation Australia Limited, ARN 224806;

(b) Hang Gliding Federation of Australia, ARN 527469;

3 Authorisation

For paragraph 226 (1) (c) of CAR, CASA authorises a person, other than a person to whom paragraph 226 (1) (a) or (b) applies, to occupy a control seat of a recreational dual control aircraft.

4 Direction

For regulation 11.245 of CASR, CASA directs the pilot in command of a recreational dual control aircraft in which a person occupies a control seat pursuant to the authorisation in section 3:

(a) to instruct the person on how to avoid interference with the aircraft controls during flight; and

(b) to maintain satisfactory communication at all times between the pilot and the person.

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Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

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