1Civil Aviation Order 103.19 Instrument 2007

I, WILLIAM BRUCE BYRON, Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, make this instrument under subregulation 21A (1) of the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988.

[Signed Bruce Byron]

Bruce Byron
Director of Aviation Safety and
Chief Executive Officer

17 December 2007

Civil Aviation Order 103.19 Instrument 2007

1 Name of instrument

This instrument is the Civil Aviation Order 103.19 Instrument 2007.

2 Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3 New Civil Aviation Order 103.19

Civil Aviation Order 103.19 is repealed and a new Civil Aviation Order 103.19 substituted as set out in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1 Civil Aviation Order 103.19

Equipment standards — flight data recorders

1 Application

1.1This Civil Aviation Order applies to flight data recording equipment installed in aircraft in compliance with Civil Aviation Order 20.18.

1.2A flight data recorder installed in an aircraft of maximum take-off weight in excess of 29 000 kg which:

(a) receives its initial issue Australian certificate of airworthiness after 1 July 1977; or

(b) is of a type first certificated in its country of manufacture after 30 September 1969, must record at least the parameters 1 to 20 inclusive listed in Appendix I to this Order.

1.3A flight data recorder installed in an aircraft other than one defined in paragraph 1.2 must record at least parameters 1 to 6 inclusive listed in Appendix I to this Order.

2 System requirements

2.1The flight data recorder system must comply with Appendix I to this Order in respect of:

(a) parameter identity; and

(b) range over which each parameter is to be recorded; and

(c) accuracy of recording for each parameter; and

(d) maximum interval in seconds between recorded readings of each parameter.

Note Installations approved before 1 January 1984 which do not record press to transmit need not be modified, providing that time correlation with the cockpit voice recorder can be established.

2.2Analogue type recorders which employ mechanically inscribed recording mediums will not be approved for fitment to aircraft which receive their initial issue Australian certificate of airworthiness after 1 January 1984.

Note The prohibition on the issue of an initial certificate of airworthiness to aircraft with an analogue type recorder which employs mechanically inscribed recording medium has been in force since 1 January 1984. The prohibition was notified to industry in July 1983.