CASA EX14/16 Exemption aircraft operating without carriage of Mode S transponder equipment (Picture This Ballooning) (Cth)

Instrument number CASA EX14/16

I, Mark alan skidmore, Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, make this instrument under regulation 11.160 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

[Signed M. Skidmore]

Mark Skidmore AM
Director of Aviation Safety

20 January 2016

Exemption — aircraft operating without carriage of Mode S transponder equipment (Picture This Ballooning)

1          Duration

                 This instrument:

(a)   commences on the day of registration; and

(b)   expires at the end of December 2018, as if it had been repealed by another instrument.

2          Application

                 This instrument applies to the aircraft mentioned in Schedule 1 operated by Picture This Ballooning Pty Ltd, Aviation Reference Number 565255 (the operator).

3          Exemption

                 The aircraft mentioned in section 2 are exempt from compliance with paragraph 9E.2 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 the 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 make or model mentioned in column 1 with the registration mark in column 2 of an item in the following table:

Item	Column 1 Aircraft make or model	Column 2 Registration mark
1	Kavanagh E240-384	VH-AYS
2	Kavanagh D77-KB265	VH-BLQ
3	Kavanagh E300-374	VH-BRK
4	Kavanagh E120-362	VH-BRR
5	Kavanagh E240-427	VH-JEL
6	Kavanagh E240-408	VH-JTZ
7	Cameron Nudie-90 10522	VH-NUD
8	Cameron Egg-89 11644	VH-OVQ
9	Cameron Cone-3 11192	VH-PSR
10	Kavanagh E240-448	VH-VBM
11	Cameron Z-105 11394	VH-ZOV