CASA EX57/11 – Exemption – air traffic controllers for Launceston and Hobart (Cth)

Instrument number CASA EX57/11

I, JOHN FRANCIS McCORMICK, Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, make this instrument under regulation 11.160 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 (CASR 1998).

[Signed John F. McCormick]

John F. McCormick
Director of Aviation Safety

31 May 2011

Exemption — air traffic controllers for Launceston and Hobart

1          Duration

                 This instrument:

(a)   commences on 2 June 2011; and

(b)   stops having effect at the end of 1 June 2013.

2          Application

                 This instrument applies to each person mentioned in Schedule 1 (a relevant air traffic controller) in respect of his or her performance of air traffic control (ATC) functions in the form of approach control for the following airspace, time and duty:

(a)   the airspace between 1 500 ft and FL 125, designated in the Designated Airspace Handbook as Controlled Airspace Class D and Controlled Airspace Class C for Launceston and Hobart (the applicable airspace);

(b)   daily between 09.45 p.m. and 06.15 a.m. (local time in Tasmania);

(c)   when he or she is providing ATC services exclusively for the TAS and HUON airspace sector.

3          Exemption

                 Each relevant air traffic controller is exempt from subregulations 65.035 (1) and 65.045 (1) of CASR 1998, but only to the extent that his or her performance of ATC functions in the form of approach control mentioned in section 2 would otherwise require an approach control rating.

4          Conditions

                 The exemption is subject to the conditions mentioned in Schedule 2.

Schedule 1          Persons to whom the exemption applies

Name	Aviation Reference Number
John David TUCKER	424915
Susanne Elizabeth MCGOUGH	554577
Steven William MCLARTY	541931
Scott Stephen CRAWFORD	753668
Fiona Elizabeth LANE	429099
Belinda Ann MCSHANE	443399
Raymond RIDDIFORD	183510
Christopher HOWARD-BATH	180245
Nick Adrian VARVODIC	576634
Robert John MAGGS	528049
Benjamin Joel IPPOLITO	562082
Jacqueline Louise SMITH	760398
Roger Matthew HOLLAND	587294
Peter HATZIPAVLIS	419501
Ian David BURGESS	439202
Mark David NEWMAN	415829
Trent Lindsay ARMSTRONG	576352
Colin Raymond GOON	050574
Philippe Michel VABRE	193918
Kieran O’Connor WESSON	587325
John Anthony BENCIC	443698
Ross Anthony KILPATRICK	775875

Schedule 2          Conditions

1 Each relevant air traffic controller must meet, in respect of his or her licence, area ratings and endorsements, the currency and recency requirements for the provision of air traffic services in the TAS and HUON airspace sectors, as required by or under Part 65 of CASR 1998.

          2     Each relevant air traffic controller must:

(a)   hold at least an area control rating; and

(b)   have completed those parts of the prescribed training for an approach control rating that are relevant to approach control in the applicable airspace.

          3     Airservices Australia (AA) must have air traffic management plans in place designed to ensure that air traffic levels and complexity in the TAS and HUON airspace sectors do not exceed the competency level of the relevant air traffic controller on duty at any time, as measured through simulation and checking of the controller during endorsement raining.

          4     Each relevant air traffic controller must act in accordance with the requirements of the AA air traffic management plans mentioned in clause 3.