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BM is back?? 

Q/ What happened to the UNMISSABLE INTERVIEW?

From GlenB off the UP, somewhat of an explanation...  

glenb

The AOPA broadcast

Although I am not aware of the details, I believe that Sunfish could slide that $10 donation that he offered back into the wallet for now. A disappointing turn of events for the time being. My hope is that I will be proceeding without that witness at this stage, although I am awaiting confirmation from AOPA, Cheers. Glen.

MIA since his Good Friday rant, I see that BM has suddenly got busy...

Via FB:

CASA ANNOUNCES INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTOR PART 141 FLIGHT TRAINING CERTIFICATE PATHWAY

Published on the CASA website;

We’ve made it easier for individuals who don’t employ other staff to apply for a Part 141 flight training certificate.

Our new streamlined application and assessment process means individuals can apply to provide non-complex flight training for the issue of recreational, private, commercial pilot licences and certain operational ratings.

The initiative is part of our General Aviation Workplan to make it easier for flight instructors that want to operate independently to obtain a Part 141 flight training approval. It is aimed at making it simpler and less expensive to gain approval if you are a single instructor providing non-complex training.

This step is similar in concept to the ‘independent flight instructor’ path available in the United States but it is not the same. A single-person instructor that wants to provide flight training for licences or ratings must still operate under our Part 141 framework, but we’re making that easier for individuals.

To be eligible to apply, a single flight instructor must be authorised under Part 61 of CASR to conduct the flight training they have applied for.

Applying under our new streamlined path for a Part 141 certificate:

- is available if you are a single-person operation and don’t employ any other staff
- requires you to use our sample operations manual and sample syllabi
- an application fee of $1,560 is payable.  This is based on an abbreviated assessment pathway to significantly reduce the cost if the sample operations manual and sample syllabi have been used.
- a reduced turnaround time if you meet all the criteria.

Remember that training for Design Feature Endorsements and/or Flight Activity Endorsements does not need a Part 141 approval certificate and an individual that holds a Flight Instructor Rating (with the relevant training endorsements) can do this already.

Ref: https://www.casa.gov.au/licences-and-cer...C5nQbDuPk#

A comment:

Steve Curtis

More CASA smoke and mirrors!

This isn’t IAW ICAO guidelines, how does CASA justify the requirement for individual instructors to hold a training certificate?

I’ll guarantee it will cost more than $1560 to process and how many months will it take to process?
CASA can’t issue a PPL or new issue medical in under 2 months. If a handful of instructors take up the “streamlined” 141 pathway you’ll be waiting many months.

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Sandy in reply:

Sandy Reith
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As I read the fine print certainly a step in the right direction but we still have a long way to go if we want to compete with the USA and truly make GA great again. We must keep up our support of AOPA because CASA is having to look at its shameful treatment of GA and its fee gouging ways because we are keeping on keeping on.

About individual instructors, and I gained my rating in the 70s and fairly soon was CFI of my own school, you only have to read the Part 141 CASA ‘process’ to see that we have been given yet another Clayton’s reform, yes better than nothing but still shades of BasicMed.

Say no more, except to repeat that the independent monopoly corporate concept of governance via a statutory authority is a failed experiment and there’s no substitute for the Westminster system of responsible government which means Ministerial control and accountability. Would you countenance palming off other important areas of government administration? How about the Department of Defence for example?

What is the point of representation government if the arms of government are pushed out to taxpayer funded independent institutions that will invariably look after themselves and never take the slightest risk about anything?

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PART 67 PILOT MEDICAL CERTIFICATION, TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP KICKS OFF 23RD APRIL

AOPA Australia CEO Benjamin Morgan provides a quick update on the upcoming Part 67 TWG for recreational/private pilot medical reform.

Sandy again...

Sandy Reith

RAAUS medical experience of the self declared fitness to fly is now 40 years of no problem, and the Gliding Federation of Australia has been successfully flying on self declared certification since inception, 1949.

GFA pilots fly in CTA, but RAAUS cannot. Why not?

In the USA their BasicMed m, which has certain compromised parameters designed to appease a strong medico lobby, nevertheless got 17,000 pilots flying in GA quite quickly and I hear lately that around 70,000 private pilots are now taking advantage of the BasicMed. In reality we should have self declared for all aspects of private flying including IFR and instructing.

Note that USA instructors need no medical if teaching those who have soloed. This has been in existence for years before today’s statistics have been assembled.

 
Finally BM on that interview...

FORMER CASA FOI INTERVIEW POSTPONED

AOPA Australia CEO Benjamin Morgan provides and update on the upcoming former CASA FOI interview.

MTF...P2