10Wood and fabric — removal of exclusion from a licence category

10 Wood and fabric — removal of exclusion from a licence category

10.1A COA holder may authorise a wood and fabric employee to carry out maintenance:

(a) of the wooden portion of a wooden construction aircraft or wooden aircraft components; or

(b) that is the replacement, or repair of, aircraft fabric surfaces.

10.2A maintenance authorisation may only be issued once for the employee, and only for a period of 6 months.

10.3Before issuing the maintenance authorisation, the COA holder must provide, and the employee must successfully complete, training and assessment in the maintenance of wooden aircraft and wooden aircraft components, or maintenance on, or the replacement and repair, of aircraft fabric surfaces.

10.4The training and assessment mentioned in paragraph 10.3 must be in accordance with the COA holder’s Quality Control Manual as approved in writing by CASA for training and assessment in one of the subjects mentioned in paragraph 10.3 and of a standard equivalent to whichever of the following Australian Qualifications Framework units is applicable:

(a) MEA 357A (inspect, test and repair fabric surfaces);

(b) MEA 358A (re-cover aircraft fabric surfaces);

(c) MEA 359A (inspect and repair aircraft wooden structures).

10.5Before issuing a maintenance authorisation of the kind referred to in paragraph 10.1, the COA holder must be, in respect of the maintenance to be performed by the employee:

(a) a CASA delegate for subregulation 42ZC (6) of CAR 1988 who may authorise a person for paragraph 42ZC (3) (d) or (4) (e) of CAR 1988 (as the case requires);

(b) an authorised person for subregulation 42ZC (7) of CAR 1988, who may authorise a person for paragraph 42ZC (3) (d) of CAR 1988.

10.6If it appears to a COA holder that an employee has, after successfully completing training and assessment in accordance with paragraph 10.3, successfully carried out maintenance under an authorisation issued under paragraph 10.1, the COA holder may, after at least 5 months of the authorisation period have elapsed, provide CASA and the employee with a provisional notice in the approved form of satisfactory completion of training and assessment.

10.7If, not earlier than 3 days before the authorisation period lapses, the COA holder wishes to confirm that an employee has satisfactorily completed their training and assessment, the COA holder must provide CASA and the employee with a confirmation notice in the approved form of successful completion of training.

10.8A notice referred to in clause 10.6 may be provided by electronic transmission to an address provided by CASA for that purpose.

10.9An authorisation period of 6 months cannot be extended.

10.10The purpose of paragraphs 10.1-10.8 is to allow CASA to update an employee’s licence to allow him or her to commence carrying on maintenance, without delay, after the completion of the authorisation period. Issue of a provisional notice does not mean that a person to whom it is issued is entitled to a confirmation notice of successful completion.

Appendix 1 Excluded systems

Note Excluded systems are sometimes described with the prefix “Excluding”.

E6 Avionic LRUs

E11 Audio CVR systems

E12 Propellers

E13 Hydraulics — ATA29

E14 Vapour cycle air-conditioning aspects of ATA21

E15 Air-conditioning aspects of ATA21

E16 Pressurisation aspects of ATA21

E18 ADF systems

E19 VOR systems

E20 ILS systems

E21 Weather radar systems

E22 ATC transponder systems

E23 Radio altimeter systems

E24 DME systems

E25 Doppler systems

E26 Satellite navigation systems

E27 Autopilots

E28 Multi-axis autopilots

E29 Remote indicating compass systems

E30 Inertial navigation and reference systems

E31 Pressurisation systems

E32 Electrical systems in aircraft equipped with multi-generator powered systems

E33 Supercharging

E34 Digital systems

E35 Pressurised structures

E36 Carburettor systems

E37 Fuel injection systems

E38 Turbo supercharging systems

E39 Airframe ice protection systems

E40 Airframe fire protection systems

E41 Oxygen systems

E42 Landing gear retraction systems

E43 Fabric other than flight controls

E44 Wiring repairs

Appendix 3 — WHR for the application of subsection 8