CASA EX48/09 – Exemption – from take-off minima inside Australian territory (Cth)

Instrument number CASA EX48/09

I, MICHAEL DAVID QUINN, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Operations, a delegate of CASA, make this instrument under regulation 308 of the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 (CAR 1988).

[Signed M.D. Quinn]

Mick Quinn
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Operations

17 June 2009

Exemption — from take-off minima inside Australian territory

1          Duration

            This instrument:

(a)   commences on the day after it is registered; and

(b)   stops having effect at the end of 30 June 2011.

2          Application

            This instrument applies to A340-500, A340-600 and B777‑300ER aeroplanes:

(a)   operated by Etihad Airways P.J.S.C. of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, under foreign Air Operator’s Certificate number 764490 (the operator); and

(b)   in take-off operations inside Australian territory; and

(c)   at aerodromes where the meteorological minima includes runway visibility range (RVR) of at least 350 metres along the runway at the touchdown zone and at the mid-point (or stop-end if mid-point visibility is not available).

3          Exemption

Each aeroplane is exempt from compliance with subregulation 257 (3) of CAR 1988 in relation to the standard take-off minima determined by CASA under subregulation 257 (1) of CAR 1988 and set out in AIP En Route 1.5, section 4.3.

Note   The standard meteorological minima were determined in instrument CASA 146/08.

4          Conditions

            The exemption is subject to the conditions mentioned in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1          Conditions

      1     An aeroplane may take off with RVR:

(a)   if runway edge lighting (with light spacing of not more than 60 metres) is operating and either runway centreline lighting is operating or runway centreline markings are clearly visible — less than 500 metres but at least 400 metres; and

(b)   if runway edge lighting (with light spacing of not more than 60 metres) is operating and runway centreline lighting is operating — less than 400 metres but at least 350 metres.

      2     Before conducting a take-off, each pilot must have successfully completed, in an approved flight simulator, a low visibility take-off training program approved by the General Civil Aviation Authority of the United Arab Emirates.

      3     The flight crew must have successfully completed, to approved operational and meteorological limits, a simulator competency check including a near V₁ engine failure (RTO) and a V₁ engine failure (continue).

      4     The flight crew must demonstrate competency in low visibility operations:

(a)   if there are 2 or 3 sessions per year — at each recurrent training session; or

(b)   if there are 4 sessions per year — at each alternate recurrent training session.

      5       A low visibility take-off may only be conducted:

(a)   in accordance with the operator’s operations manual; and

(b)   when air traffic control low visibility procedures are in place at the aerodrome.

      6     The aeroplane must not take off from a runway that requires a turn of more than 15°, at either the runway head or below 200 feet, for all-engine or engine‑out take-offs, if RVR is less than 500 metres.

      7       A copy of this exemption must be kept in the operator’s operations manual.