Part 61 Flight Crew Licensing (Prescribed Aircraft and Type Ratings) (Edition 11) Instrument 2026
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Division 1 — Preliminary
1 Name and commencement
(1) This instrument is Part 61 Flight Crew Licensing (Prescribed Aircraft and Type Ratings) (Edition 11) Instrument 2026.
(2) This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.
2 Repeal
Part 61 Flight Crew Licensing (Prescribed Aircraft and Type Ratings) (Edition 10) Instrument 2025 is repealed.
Note Part 61 Flight Crew Licensing (Prescribed Aircraft and Type Ratings) (Edition 10) Instrument 2025 was assigned the FRL number F2025L00087.
3 Interpretation
Note In this instrument, certain terms and expressions have the same meaning as they have in the Civil Aviation Act 1988 and the regulations. These include: CASR, differences training, flight review, model, single-pilot type rating and variant.
(1) In this instrument:
AYT means auto yaw trim.
cell, for a column of a table in a Schedule of this instrument, means each individual, undivided unit (regardless of its size) into which the column is subdivided.
CPDS means centre panel display system.
CR, at the end of a type rating designation, means cruise relief co-pilot.
CRFE, at the end of a type rating designation, means cruise relief flight engineer.
DTR means differences training required.
FE, at the end of a type rating designation, means flight engineer.
GVFD means global vision flight deck.
licence document has the meaning given by regulation 61.010 of CASR.
PEC means propeller engine control.
SP, at the end of a type rating designation, means single pilot.
TF means tactile feedback.
(2) Column 1 of a table in a Schedule of this instrument contains general information only and is not intended to qualify or otherwise affect the meaning or operation of anything else in the Schedule.
4 Multi-engine aeroplanes in the single-engine aeroplane class
Note This section heading is reserved for future use, for the purposes of regulation 61.050 of CASR.