CASR Part 61 - Flight crew licensing

Part 61 of CASR 1998 prescribes the requirements and standards for the issue of flight crew licences, ratings and other authorisations, including those issued to pilots and flight engineers. It also includes the privileges, limitations and conditions on such authorisations, and rules for the logging of flight time.

Who Part 61 affects

• aspiring and existing flight crew licence holders in the Australian aviation community
• pilots seeking to convert from an overseas pilot licence to the Australian equivalent, or obtain recognition of Australian military flight crew qualifications
• training organisations and their personnel
• Australian aircraft operators employing flight crew

Part 61 post-implementation review (PIR)

Since commencement, the Flight Crew Licensing regulations have been subject to post-implementation monitoring and procedural anomalies have been identified that require consideration and rectification.

Standards Development project FS 14/25 has been approved to review the flight crew licensing regulations. Any amendments will be issued in draft form for public consultation. CASA will send notification via the flight operations and licensing standards mailing list when proposed amendments are available for public consultation.

Regulations

Current regulation

Part 61 can be found in volume 2 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

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Manual of Standards

MOS compilation

The Part 61 Manual of Standards is available on the Federal Register of Legislation website.

Advisory documents

Part 61 history

The Part 61 history includes project and consultation activities conducted in relation to Part 61.

View the Key Proposals for the initial development of Part 61.