CASA EX22/15 - Exemption – aeronautical experience requirements for grant of commercial pilot licences – aeroplane category

Instrument number CASA EX22/15

I, PETER REGINALD FEREDAY, Executive Manager, Industry Permissions Division, a delegate of CASA, make this instrument under regulation 11.160 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 (CASR 1998).

[Signed P. Fereday]

Peter Fereday
Executive Manager
Industry Permissions Division

6 February 2015

Exemption – aeronautical experience requirements for grant of commercial pilot licences – aeroplane category

1 Duration

This instrument:

(a) commences on the day of registration; and

(b) expires at the end of December 2017, as if it had been repealed by another instrument.

2 Application

This instrument applies only to the holder of a commercial pilot licence, or an air transport pilot licence, with a helicopter category rating.

3 Exemption

The pilot in command is exempt from compliance with paragraph 61.610 (1) (b) of CASR 1998.

4 Condition

The exemption is subject to the condition mentioned in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1 Condition

A person to whom this instrument applies is exempt from paragraph 61.610 (1) (b) only if he or she has at least 100 hours of flight time as pilot in command of a registered or recognised aircraft including at least 60 hours of flight time as pilot in command of aeroplanes.

Note Recognised aircraft covers recognised aeroplane, helicopter, gyroplane and powered-lift aircraft, all of which have their own definitions under 61.010, as being on the register of a CS or a State aircraft. Registered aircraft would primarily be aircraft registered in Australia.