CASA 329/09 Directions Airservices Australia (Cth)

Instrument number CASA 329/09

I, john francis McCORMICK, Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, make this instrument under regulation 11.245 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

[Signed John F. McCormick]

John F. McCormick
Director of Aviation Safety

21 July 2009

Directions — Airservices Australia

1          Duration

            This instrument:

(a)   commences at the beginning of 21 July 2009; and

(b)   stops having effect at the end of 20 July 2010.

2          Application

            This instrument applies to Airservices Australia, Aviation Reference Number 202210 (Airservices), in relation to operations at each of the aerodromes mentioned in Schedule 1 (the aerodrome).

3          Directions

   (1)     Airservices is given the directions mentioned in Schedule 2.

   (2)     Each direction in Schedule 2 is a separate direction.

Schedule 1          Aerodromes

Archerfield – YBAF	Bankstown – YSBK	Camden – YSCN
Jandakot – YPJT	Moorabbin –YMMB	Parafield – YPPF

Schedule 2          Directions

      1                 On or before 21 April 2010, Airservices must provide at each of the aerodromes mentioned in Schedule 1, the Air Traffic Service (ATS) appropriate for airspace classified as Class D.

      2                 On or before 21 August 2009, Airservices must give to CASA an implementation plan (the plan) outlining in detail how the provision of full Class D air traffic services at the aerodromes will be implemented.

      3     On or before 21 April 2010, Airservices must provide ATS daily, at all of the aerodromes for the hours of daylight without any reduction in the service currently provided during the hours of darkness.

     4      As part of the plan referred to in clause 2 above, Airservices must provide CASA with regular progress reports on the implementation process at intervals acceptable to CASA.

      5                 Included in the plan referred to in clause 2 above, Airservices must provide details of the way in which progress toward the provision of the ATS mentioned in clause 3 above will be implemented.

      6                 An Air Traffic Controller (ATC) must respond to any request from pilots for clearance to enter, cross or taxi along any runway at any of the aerodromes, taking into account matters relating to safety.

      7                 Airservices must ensure that, at any given time, the maximum number of aeroplanes in the circuit (including arriving and departing aeroplanes) for any 1 runway controlled by an ATC is 6.

Note 1   Subject to clause 8, this means that, at any given time:

(a)no ATC may allow more than 6 aeroplanes to be operating in the circuit for any 1 runway; and

(b)no ATC may assume control responsibility for more than 6 aeroplanes using 1 or more runways.

Note 2   In the exercise of his or her discretion, and taking any relevant considerations relating to the interests of air safety into account, an ATC may assume control responsibility for operation in respect of more than 1 runway, so long as that ATC is not responsible for the control of more than a total of 6 aeroplanes at any given time.

Note 3   If 2 runways and 2 aerodrome controllers are available, then the maximum number of aeroplanes in the circuits at any given time must not exceed 12.

Note 4   Nothing in these directions is intended to interfere with the discretion of an ATC to limit, reduce or increase the number of aircraft in the circuit at any given time, or to give any other lawful directions or instructions that may be necessary, in the interests of safety.

      8                 For clause 7, an additional departure may be permitted at the discretion of the controlling ATC, having taken into account any relevant considerations relating to the interests of safety.

Note   For clauses 7 and 8, the maximum number of aeroplanes in a circuit must not at any given time exceed 7 when 1 runway is used or 13 when 2 runways are used.

      9     Gliders and aeroplanes towing gliders are excluded from the maximum number of aeroplanes in the circuit mentioned in clauses 7 and 8 when the glider or the aeroplane towing the glider is using the glider launch and landing areas at Camden aerodrome.