9Operations manual requirements

9 Operations manual requirements

(1) A relevant designer carrying on permitted design work must ensure that it maintains an operations manual, that meets the standards for operations manuals set out in the Part 173 Manual of Standards, in relation to the design work.

(2) Despite subsection (1), the standard in paragraph 2.1.1.1(oa) of the Manual of Standards only applies to the designer if:

(a) the design work is for a listed military aerodrome that is a joint user aerodrome; and

(b) the aerodrome operator that operates the aerodrome for civil aircraft operations holds an aerodrome certificate granted by CASA under regulation 139.030 of CASR.

Note Paragraph 2.1.1.1(oa) requires the operations manual to include a statement that a design for a terminal instrument flight procedure may only be completed and given for verification, validation or publication for a certified aerodrome.

Note: Regulation 139.025 of CASR requires the operator of an aerodrome to have an aerodrome certificate if there is a terminal instrument flight procedure for the aerodrome.

Note: The regulations generally do not apply in respect of military aerodromes (see subregulation 3(5) of the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988). However, at the commencement of this instrument, the civilian aerodrome operators of the joint user aerodromes, Darwin and Townsville, were the holders of an aerodrome certificate granted by CASA under regulation 139.030 of CASR, under the scheme established by the Airports Act 1996.

(3) Subsection (4) applies to a relevant designer carrying on permitted design work if the design work is for a listed military aerodrome other than a joint user aerodrome mentioned in subsection (2).

(4) In addition to the requirements of subsections (1) and (2), the designer must also comply with the requirements of subsection 13(2) (arrangements with aerodrome operator regarding obstacles data).

(5) A relevant designer must comply with the requirements in subregulations 173.075(2) and (3) of CASR, as if the reference in paragraph 173.075(2)(b) to “design work under the designer’s procedure design certificate” were a reference to “permitted design work”.