On 7 Jan 2015, at 5:00 pm, Mike Cleaver <wom...@netspeed.com.au> wrote:
> You are correct that at present there is no requirement for registration > markings under the wings on any aircraft below 5700 kg MTOW operated in > Australia. The exemption was renewed in 2012 and falls due again at the end > of this month: since I am not aware of any formal post-implementation review > of Part 45 I would expect that it will be renewed for a further 3 years at > that time. Assuming CASA doesn’t just forget to renew it. There’s a legislative instrument which enables people to issue maintenance releases on Experimental Amateur-Built Aircraft which has a three year expiry. Renewal involves changing the date on the last one. Despite the expiry being an entirely predictable event, the last two occasions have featured periods of time when it was unlawful to do an annual on an experimental aircraft because CASA plainly and simply forgot to renew their own paperwork. http://www.saaa.com/Portals/0/PDFs/CASA%2013033%20(2).pdf <http://www.saaa.com/Portals/0/PDFs/CASA%2013033%20(2).pdf> When reminded last time, they said it was going to take weeks due to a shortage of legislative drafters. When pressed by people who had grounded aircraft due solely to CASA’s inability to follow their own procedures, they actually did it in a few days. It’ll expire again next year. I wonder if they’ve discovered “Calendar Reminders,” or if CASA senior management have dealt with the failures to do their jobs inherent in the fact that they neglected to budget for enough legislative drafters to deal with their entirely predictable workload. And the Forsyth Review didn’t recommend any sackings. Amazing. - mark
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