CASA EX61/08 – Exemption – from take-off and landing minima outside Australian territory (Cth)
Instrument number CASA EX61/08
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
29 August 2008
Exemption — from take-off and landing minima outside Australian territory
1 Duration
This instrument:
(a) commences on the day after it is registered; and
(b) stops having effect at the end of August 2010.
2 Application
This instrument applies to A380 aircraft:
(a) operated by Qantas Airways Limited under Air Operator’s Certificate number 216147 (the operator); and
(b) in take-off and landing operations outside Australian territory; and
(c) at aerodromes where air traffic control has advised that low visibility procedures are in use.
3 Exemption
The aircraft are exempt from compliance with regulation 257 of CAR 1988 in relation to the standard take-off and landing minima determined by CASA under subregulation 257 (1) of CAR 1988 and set out in AIP En Route 1.5, sections 4.3 and 4.4.
4 Conditions
(1) The aircraft must use the minima mentioned in Schedule 1 that apply to the type of operation or procedure in which the aircraft is engaged.
(2) The exemption is subject to the conditions mentioned in Schedule 2.
Schedule 1 Take-off and landing minima
1 Take-off minima
Take-off Runway Visual Range (RVR) minima are:
(a) 125 metres in the Touchdown Zone (TDZ); and
(b) 125 metres in the Mid-point Zone (MID); and
(c) 125 metres in the Stop-end Zone (END).
2 Landing minima
(1) Category II minima:
(a) landing RVR minima are 400 metres TDZ with 200 metres MID or, if MID not available, 200 metres END; and
(b) landing decision height (DH) is 100 feet.
(2) Category IIIA minima:
(a) landing RVR minima are 200 metres TDZ with 200 metres MID or, if MID not available, 200 metres END; and
(b) landing DH is 50 feet.
(3) Category IIIB minima:
(a) landing RVR minima are 75 metres TDZ with 75 metres MID and 75 metres END; and
(b) landing DH is — there is no DH.
3 RVR requirements
(1) For take-off and landing, if the RVR in the TDZ, the MID or the END is less than 200 metres, the RVR is required for all 3 zones.
(2) For take-off and landing, if the RVR in the TDZ is at least 200 metres but is less than the standard take-off and landing minima:
(a) a MID RVR is required; or
(b) if a MID RVR is not available — an END RVR is required.
Note If both a MID RVR and an END RVR are available, the END RVR is advisory only.
4 Application of minima
If the take-off or landing minima set out in an aerodrome chart or approach chart are more restrictive than the minima that would otherwise apply under this instrument, the pilot in command must apply the more restrictive minima.
5Category IIIB landings — specific restriction
Category IIIB landings must not be conducted until 60 days after the commencement of the operator’s first A380 revenue flight.
Schedule 2 Conditions
1 Definition
In this Schedule:
low visibility operations means:
(a) operations to less than Category I ILS minima; or
(b) take-off with less than 500 metres visibility.
2 Compliance
For pilots to conduct low visibility operations outside Australian territory, the operator must ensure these conditions are met.
3 Training
The operator must certify that the members of the flight crew have successfully completed a low visibility operations training syllabus as set out in the following table.
| Section of course | Contents |
| Low visibility ground training | General concepts and appropriate definitions. Aerodrome procedures, aids, markings, Cat II and Cat III lighting systems and approach bans. Factors affecting the determination of minima. Reversionary minima. An understanding of aircraft maintenance requirements and serviceability. Aircraft performance limitations. Normal operating procedures. Non-normal procedures for handling pilot incapacitation, engine and system failures below 1 000 feet, alert height (AH) and DH. |
| Low visibility simulator training | Taxiing — low visibility. Take-offs — minimum visibility: ·normal operations ·engine and system failures before and after V1 ·loss of visibility. Landings and go-arounds — Cat II and Cat III: ·normal operations ·aircraft and ground system failures and loss of visibility at heights above and below AH and DH ·pilot incapacitation. Take-offs and landings must be at high weights and at 10 knots crosswind. |
4 Experience
Unless otherwise approved by CASA, the following experience is required before a Category II or Category III landing is conducted:
(a) for a captain — he or she must have either a minimum time in command of 300 hours or 50 sectors, on any of the operator’s aircraft;
(b) on the A380 aircraft — a captain must have a minimum time in the left pilot seat consisting of:
(i) for a captain transferring from a Boeing aircraft type — not less than 100 hours; or
(ii) for a captain transferring from an Airbus aircraft type — not less than 20 hours;
being:
(iii) time as pilot in command; or
(iv) time acting in command under supervision; or
(v) dual flying;
(c) on the A380 aircraft — a captain must have performed a minimum number of autolands as stated below, in Category I or better conditions:
(i) for a captain transferring from a Boeing aircraft type — 1 during line training and 1 as pilot in command; and
(ii) for a captain transferring from an Airbus aircraft type — 1 during line training;
(d) for a first officer — he or she must have a minimum time as first officer of 100 hours or 30 sectors on any of the operator’s aircraft;
(e) on the A380 aircraft — a first officer must have performed a minimum number of autolands, as stated below, in Category I or better conditions:
(i) for a first officer transferring from a Boeing aircraft type — 2; and
(ii) for a first officer transferring from an Airbus aircraft type — 1.
5 Recency
(1) Within 90 days before conducting a Category II or Category III landing, a captain must have completed an autoland using low visibility procedures in a simulator or aircraft (recency).
(2) A captain who has lost recency must regain it before conducting a Category II or Category III landing under this instrument.
(3) Lost recency is regained by performing an autoland in a simulator or in an aircraft in Category I conditions or better.
(4) An aircraft to be used for a Category II or Category III landing must have had its autoland capability exercised in accordance with the approved Aircraft Maintenance Planning Document.
6 Competency
(1) The flight crew must have successfully completed, to approved operational and meteorological limits, a simulator competency check including:
(a) a near V1 engine failure (RTO) and a V1 engine failure (continue); and
(b) a Category II or Category III landing; and
(c) a Category II or Category III auto go-around.
(2) 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.
(3) At least once a year competency must be demonstrated to a Category A or Category B check pilot.
7 Maintenance
The operator must ensure that the aircraft are maintained in accordance with:
(a) the requirements for Category II, Category IIIA and Category IIIB operations; and
(b) the requirements detailed in the applicable CASA approved Aircraft Maintenance Planning Document.
8 Operational restrictions
(1) Take-off and landing operations are subject to the requirements of the State of the aerodrome, if these are more restrictive than the requirements of this instrument.
(2) For a take-off or landing:
(a) an on-board operations manual must include all relevant information for briefing of low visibility take-offs and landings; and
(b) the pilot in command must be “pilot flying”in theleft seat for all low visibility operations.
(3) The aircraft 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; or
(b) if runway edge lighting (with light spacing of not more than 60 metres) and runway centreline lighting are operating — less than 400 metres but at least 300 metres; or
(c) if Category II or Category III movement area lighting (taxiway lighting, high intensity runway edge lighting and runway centreline lighting) is operating and visibility is expressed as RVR derived from a transmissometer — less than 300 metres but at least the approved minima.
(4) The aircraft must not take off:
(a) from a runway that requires a turn of more than 15°, at either runway head or below 200 feet, for all-engine or engine-out take-offs, if RVR is less than 500 metres; or
(b) if RVR is not more than 400 metres and crosswind is more than 10 knots.
(5) For a take-off:
(a) if RVR for all 3 zones are required, centreline light spacing must be not more than 15 metres; and
(b) if RVR is less than 300 metres, the operator must have a standard procedure call in the aircraft type’s operations manual, for the “pilot not flying” to advise the “pilot flying” of deviations from the runway centreline.
(6) For a Category II or Category III landing:
(a) the runway must have been approved by the operator for autoland in accordance with the operator’s Autoland Safety Operational Specification; and
(b) high intensity approach lighting must be as follows:
(i) for a Category II landing — at least 720 metres must be available;
(ii) for a Category III landing — at least the inner 300 metres must be available where the DH is at least 50 feet; and
(c) braking action on the runway must not be reported as worse than “medium”; and
(d) wind components, including gusts, must not exceed a headwind of 25 knots, a tailwind of 10 knots or a crosswind of 10 knots; and
(e) the landing distance available must be the greater of 2 400 metres or that required from the Landing Performance Chart multiplied by 1.15.
(7) For a Category II approach, until visual conditions are established, the aircraft must have a “CAT 2” or “CAT 3 SINGLE” or “CAT 3 DUAL” indicated on its flight mode annunciator.
(8) For a Category IIIA approach or landing, the aircraft must have a “CAT 3 SINGLE” or “CAT 3 DUAL” indicated on its flight mode annunciator.
(9) For a Category IIIB approach or landing, the aircraft must have a “CAT 3 DUAL” indicated on its flight mode annunciator.
9 Approvals
(1) Low visibility operations may be conducted at an aerodrome only if the operator has:
(a) told CASA that the aerodrome and runway terrain details and charts, including the calculations used to determine the applicable minima, have been checked and are available for inspection; and
(b) received approval to do so from the relevant foreign regulatory authority; and
(c) given CASA a copy of the approval.
(2) The operator must conduct low visibility operations in accordance with the approvals it has received.
10 Requirements
(1) The operator must keep a copy of this instrument and a list of aerodromes and runways approved for Category II and Category III operations in a manual available to all pilots.
(2) The operator’s procedures for low visibility operations must be in accordance with this instrument, must be followed and must not be amended without approval from CASA.
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