CASA EX50/08 Exemption from take-off minima inside Australian territory (Cth)

Instrument number CASA EX50/08

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

30 July 2008

Exemption — from take-off minima inside Australian territory

1          Duration

This instrument:

(a)   commences on 1 August 2008; and

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

2          Application

This instrument applies to aeroplanes:

(a)   operated by Qantas Airways Limited under Air Operator’s Certificate number 216147 (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 300 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

The aeroplanes are 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.

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 300 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 CASA.

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 each year — at each recurrent training session; or

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

5     At least once a year competency must be demonstrated to a Category A or Category B check pilot.

6       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.

7       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.

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