1Civil Aviation Amendment Order (No. 2) 2004 - Civil Aviation Order 45.0 - Flight crew standards - Synthetic trainers - General (18/03/2004)

Civil Aviation Amendment Order

(No. 2) 2004

I, WILLIAM BRUCE BYRON, Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, issue the following Civil Aviation Order under regulation 303A of the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988.

[Signed Bruce Byron]

Bruce Byron

Director of Aviation Safety and

Chief Executive Officer

18 March 2004

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1 Name of Order

This Order is the Civil Aviation Amendment Order (No. 2) 2004.

2 Commencement

This Order commences on gazettal.

3 Replacement of section 45.0 of the Civil Aviation Orders

Section 45.0 of the Civil Aviation Orders is omitted and a new section substituted as set out in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1 Amendment of section 45.0 of the Civil Aviation Orders

1 Section 45.0

substitute

SECTION 45.0 FLIGHT CREW STANDARDS — SYNTHETIC TRAINERS — GENERAL

1 APPLICABILITY

This section specifies conditions for the approval under the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 (CAR 1988) of synthetic trainers.

2 DEFINITIONS

In this section, unless the contrary intention appears:

accreditation check means the testing of a synthetic trainer for the purpose of approving it and assigning a category to it in accordance with subsection 3.

accreditation test guide means a document which contains a group of synthetic trainer tests compiled by the operator and approved by CASA.

approved synthetic trainer means a synthetic trainer approved by CASA for the purpose of gaining credits.

credit means an entitlement to complete specified flight time, airwork sequences and recent experience requirements by means of an approved synthetic trainer.

Note: More detailed definitions appear in the CASA publication “FSD-2 Operational Standards and Requirements — Approved Synthetic Trainers”. For definitions of synthetic flight trainer and synthetic trainer, see CAR 1988.

3 ACCREDITATION OF A SYNTHETIC TRAINER

3.1 An application for an accreditation check of a synthetic trainer must be made to CASA. The application must contain information as detailed in the CASA publication “FSD-2 Operational Standards and Requirements — Approved Synthetic Trainers” (CASA publication FSD-2).

3.2 CASA, after a review of the application, must arrange with the operator to carry out the accreditation check. The operator must ensure that the arrangements for the accreditation check are in accordance with the CASA publication FSD-2. Any defects noted during the conduct of the accreditation check must be noted in the accreditation test guide. The completed accreditation test guide must be retained with the synthetic trainer.