CASA EX10/16 Exemption—aircraft operating without carriage of Mode S transponder equipment (National Jet Express) (Cth)

Instrument number CASA EX10/16

I, PETER beilby cromarty, Executive Manager, Airspace and Aerodrome Regulation Division, a delegate of CASA, make this instrument under regulation 11.160 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

[Signed P.B. Cromarty]

Peter Cromarty
Executive Manager
Airspace and Aerodrome Regulation Division

19^th January 2016

Exemption — aircraft operating without carriage of Mode S transponder equipment (National Jet Express)

1          Duration

                 This instrument:

(a)   commences on 4 February 2016; and

(b)   expires at the end of March 2016, as if it had been repealed by another instrument.

2          Application

                 This instrument applies to the aircraft mentioned in Schedule 1 operated by National Jet Express Pty Ltd, Aviation Reference Number 580965 (the operator).

3          Exemption

                 A person using the aircraft mentioned in section 2 at Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne or Perth aerodrome is exempt from compliance with paragraph 9E.4 of Civil Aviation Order 20.18 in relation to the requirement to carry a serviceable ADS-B capable Mode S transponder.

4          Condition

                 A person, who is using an aircraft to which this instrument applies, must ensure that all I.F.R. flight plans for the aircraft in Australian airspace are annotated in Item 18 with “RMK/CASA MODE S EXEMPT” (quotation marks omitted).

Note   If this annotation is not included in a flight plan, the Airservices Australia automated systems will reject the plan.

Schedule 1          Aircraft

                 An aircraft of an aircraft type mentioned in column 1 with the registration mark in column 2 in the following table:

Column 1

Aircraft type

Column 2

Registration mark

BAe 146-100

VH-NJV