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Hitch's weekly wrap with a focus on Part 61 Tiger Team -

Background

"K" said...

 "..But, sure as eggs, soon or late, someone will decide that a CASA rule is a good case to prosecute – and win. Then there will be yet another, retrospective ‘knee-jerk’ reaction, the inevitable over kill and more draconian regulations produced – after the fact..."

If anyone doubts the veracity of which the Ferryman speaks, you only need visit the historical archive of Part 61 that spent a decade in gestation, only to be hatched as the single most diabolical regulation to be hung, like a festering cancerous millstone, around the neck of industry...  

In the latest sickening update to the Part 61 page count and rule by exemption bollocks, Wodger Weekes-as-piss and his 'Tiger team' has the audacity to state..

"..Taskforce managers are currently taking stock of the extensive range of work already delivered and working through the issues yet to be finalised before they commence the transition to business as usual.."

For those that have a strong stomach here is the rest of the latest update:19 September 2016

And this is where the current list of additional exemptions and amended instruments related to Part 61 is at:

Exemptions

• Exemption - flight examiner rating proficiency check (EPC) and professional development requirements (PDP): CASA EX133/16 and CASA EX134/16
  
• Exemption - flight examiner rating for holders of CAO 82.0 check pilot approvals: CASA 106/16
  
• Exemption - aerial application proficiency check and operator proficiency check (head of flight operations) - aeroplanes: CASA EX105/16
  
• Exemption - instrument proficiency checks for aircraft pilot type ratings: (CASA EX93/16)
  
• Exemption - CASR Part 61 aircraft flight reviews: (CASA EX97/16)
  
• Exemption - CASR Part 61 aeronautical knowledge examinations and two year completion period: CASA EX86/16
  
• Exemption - aeronautical experience for an NVIS rating or endorsement: CASA EX77/16
  
• Exemption - single-pilot turbojet aeroplane specific instrument proficiency check exemption: CASA EX41/16
  
• Exemption - from completion of an approved training course in multi-crew cooperation: CASA EX225/15
  
• Exemption - against ATPL flight test requirements: CASA EX222/15
  
• Exemption - English language proficiency assessments: CASA EX146/15
  
• Exemption - logging of time in flight for co-pilots on single-pilot certificated aircraft: CASA EX116/15
  
• Exemption - Parts 141 and 142 - CASA approval of kinds of aircraft: CASA EX126/15
  
• Exemption - from certain low-level rating requirements: CASA 92/15
  
• Exemption - dual flight checks before solo flights by student pilots: CASA EX 78/15
  
• Exemption - aeronautical experience requirements for grant of commercial pilot licences - aeroplane category: CASA EX22/15
  
• Exemption - foreign cadet pilots taking flight test for a commercial pilot licence - class 1 medical certificate (replacement exemption September 2015): CASA EX156/15
  
• Exemption - aerial application rating and firefighting endorsement (replacement exemption August 2015)
  

Conditions on authorisations - regulation 11.068
Part 61 Manual of Standards

• Part 61 Manual of Standards amendment instrument
  

Part 61 legislative instruments

• Prescription of aircraft and ratings - Part 61
  
• Prescribed qualification standards for flight simulation training devices (MCC training - aeroplane) (Edition1)
  
• Prescription of aircraft and rating - Agusta Westland AW169
  

Regulation 61.040 approvals

• Overview
  
• Approvals to conduct flight tests for issue of class and type ratings
  
• Approvals to conduct flight tests for training endorsements
  
• Approval to conduct flight tests for low-level ratings, low-level endorsements and mustering endorsements
  
• Approval to conduct flight tests and grant low level rating endorsements for sling operations and winch and rappelling operations
  

Part 141 and 142 legislative instruments

• Regulation 141.035 approval to conduct flight training for helicopter firefighting endorsement
  
• Regulation 142.045 - Prescription - type ratings for CASR Part 142 flight training (Edition 3)
  
• Regulation 141.035 - approval to conduct flight training for low-level ratings, low-level endorsements and mustering endorsements
  
• Approval under regulation 141.035 - for regulation 217 training and checking organisations to conduct certain Part 141 flight training AND approval under regulation 142.040 - for regulation 217 training and checking organisations to conduct certain Part 142 flight training
  
• Variation of AOCs - authorisation of regulation 217 training and checking organisations to conduct certain Part 142 flight training in aircraft
  

UDB...

While on 'Mythical Reform' note the following from the RAAA thread:

All quiet on the Western front, until..??

Quote from Mike Higgins - "..In the name of greater air safety, Civil Aviation Order 48.1 proposes tighter regulations, but are they unwarranted?.." 

What struck me, with the article and above quote, is realistically you could replace 'CAO 48.1' with your favourite bollocks, recently written, voluminous regulation and the article with few alterations would not lose context one iota...

Via Oz Flying today...

The Last Minute Hitch: 23 September 2016
23 September 2016

 
Once the Part 61 Solutions Taskforce winds up in October, CASA and the industry should grab the opportunity to take a walk in the Hall of Mirrors to look at what just happened. There are so many lessons to be learnt from Part 61 and its ignoble companions Parts 64, 141 and 142; starting with how the hell they ever came into existence in the first place! There are signs that we've already absorbed that one, most prominently when CASA canceled plans to introduce a under-prepared Part 66 that was already decried from all corners of the maintenance industry. It looked like CASA was keen not to repeat a Part 61 disaster. The other thing we can look at closely is how well CASA and the industry worked together over the 10 months the taskforce existed. An industry advisory council set the priorities for CASA to sort out, and no doubt there would have been some interesting meetings behind the glass windows of Aviation House as differences of opinion faced-off. But some things did get fixed, so clearly a lot was going right. We need to take what we did right, learn from it, and leverage it across new regulatory programs in the future, preferably as preventative medicine rather than as a cure.

Another thing we will stand to learn is whether or not the CASA leopard is really changing its spots. There are many tasks on the list that have yet to be completed, and CASA has stated they will take care of them post-taskforce in the course of normal CASA business.That is a thought to send shivers through the industry; it may have been normal CASA business that got us into this mess in the first place. Hopefully they will deal with the outstandings efficiently and promptly, which should be an indicator that change catalysts inserted into the regulator are at last working.

There are less than two weeks now before the aviation community gathers at Narromine for the re-named national fly-in. Although many are still not sold on the OzKosh name (me included), once the show is well and truly underway, what will it really matter? There's three whole days of talking flying, catching up with old mates, learning new stuff, refreshing old stuff  and generally marinating in aviation ahead of us. The OzKosh 2016 Program is now out to whet your whistle for this once-a-year opportunity. And for those looking to fly in, CASA has said they won't be ramp-checking ... but that doesn't mean they won't be keeping an eye out for blatant misbehaviour!

May your gauges always be in the green,

Hitch

Read more at http://www.australianflying.com.au/the-last-minute-hitch/the-last-minute-hitch-23-september-2016#73U8IiHJgUQyUUmA.99

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