Chair Position Available - Expert Panel on Aircraft Air Quality
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is seeking expressions of interest from health professionals to chair an expert panel to reiew potential crew and passenger health issues related to aircraft cabin air quality.
Description of Role & Application Details
Air Quality Reference Group
In May 2007, the Minister for Transport and Regional Services, the Hon Mark Vaile MP, requested CASA to reconvene the Cabin Air Quality Reference Group. The Group met on 12 July 2007 in Canberra. Representatives from airlines, unions and industry groups attended to discuss the issues surrounding Cabin Air Quality. The previous Cabin Air Quality Reference Group last met in October 2002.
- The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the current situation in relation to cabin air quality and gain an insight into the history of the issue.
- In late 2007, the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Airconditioning Engineers is due to release a Standard covering the handling of Cabin Air Quality issues.
- It has been decided that the Group should meet again in early 2008 once the Standard has been released.
Transition to CASR Part 137
Aerial Application Operations (other than rotorcraft)
CASR Part 137 applies to aeroplanes engaged in aerial application operations other than rotorcraft. It also includes aerial application procedures such as firebombing and oil spills work.
CASR Part 137 will be effective from 26 May 2007. There will be a one year transition period ending on 25 May 2008. Fixed wing aerial agricultural AOC holders must transition to CASR Part 137 by the period end date in order to continue to operate.
More details on the transition to CASR Part 137
Australian and United States Joint Statement on GPS
Australia and the United States have formally agreed to meet annually to work towards improvements for the civil use of the Global Positioning System and regional augmentations to GPS. Officials met in Canberra in late April to discuss a range of GPS related issues.
A formal statement issued after the meeting said that Australia and the US have a shared interest in space-based positioning, navigation and timing systems for civil, commercial and scientific uses.
Joint Australian and US delegation statement on GPS
Australia and New Zealand mutual recognition of AOCs
Australia and New Zealand now mutually recognise air operator's certificates for aircraft with more than 30 seats or weighing more than 15,000kg.
Mutual recognition enables Australian and New Zealand operators to operate to, from and within either country on the basis of their home certification. Australian operators must first apply to CASA to request ANZA privileges.
Trial of Night Vision Goggles
CASA is developing standards for use of Night Vision Goggles (NVG) in civilian helicopter operators through a 12 month trial with selected operators. The results of the trial will be used by CASA to test and refine the NVG standards for likely eventual incorporation in the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations.
More details on the trial of night vision goggles
Charter substitution arrangements
Civil Aviation Order 82.0 (CAO 82.0) was amended in 2005 to provide for the addition of an additional subsection “Conditions relating to charter substitutions”. This web page:
- explains the purpose and effect of the amendment; and
- describes how you might obtain approval from CASA for a charter substitution arrangement.
More information on Charter substitution arrangements
Dangerous goods - General Aviation Operators that "will carry DG"
CASA is exploring the possibility of a listing for General Aviation Operators that "will carry DG". As operators are subject to CASA authorisation and oversight through their AOC, CASA will be seeking more evidence as to the "DG fitness" of the operators that seek to be listed. Operators will therefore notice that the form enquires about the DG Manual; this information will not be made public.
CASA will construct and maintain the list on a work-load permitting basis and will be looking to publish on the CASA website after 30 September 2006.
Adding your name to this list
To include your company in this list, please complete the DG list update form.
New section for the Flying Training industry
This section of the web site will be a central point for all information related to flying training.
Info for flying training organisations
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Aircraft descriptions on Air Operator Certificates
If you are the holder of an AOC, this page identifies how aircraft are described on an AOC and provides some guidance as to what the authorisations encompass.
Aircraft descriptions on Air Operator Certificates
CASA's new Tools for Systems Audits
The old prescriptive Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 (regulations that mostly prescribed the precise steps to be taken, leaving little or no discretion for deviation) are being replaced by the new CASRs (Civil Aviation Safety Regulations). The CASRs emphasise the required outcomes, wherever possible, aiming to make the regulations less prescriptive and as outcomebased as possible. This approach allows a level of freedom to the authorisation holder (Civil Aviation Authorisation holder) to identify the means by which to achieve the outcomes by designing and implementing compliance assurance systems. Some CASRs will require the integration of all systems into SMS (Safety Management Systems). This, in turn, requires CASA to verify how well those systems are designed, implemented, and used. The use of the Management System Model (MSM) as a common standard for analysis and evaluation for all CASA audits is expected to provide consistency in such verification.