Civil Aviation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1989 No. 2761

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Civil Aviation Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Civil Aviation Act 1988.

Dated 12 October 1989.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. Kelly

Minister of State for Telecommunications and Aviation Support

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After regulation 232 of the Civil Aviation Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Operational procedures in relation to computers

“232a. (1) Where an aircraft is fitted with a computer for the provision of navigation or aircraft performance information to the flight crew or to an automatic pilot system, the operator of that aircraft shall establish in relation to that computer operational procedures in accordance with directions given by the Authority in Civil Aviation Orders.

“(2) Without limiting the generality of subregulation (1), the Authority may give directions in relation to any of the following matters:

(a) the duties or functions of the operator, pilot in command or other flight crew member in relation to:

(i) the operation of the computer; or

(ii) the entry of data into, and verification of data in, the computer;

(b) the qualifications of persons who:

(i) operate the computer: or

(ii) enter data into, or verify data in, the computer;

 

(S.R. 246/89) Cat. No. 14/31.7.1989

 

(c) the notification to the personnel of an operator or to a pilot in command or other flight crew member of operational procedures relating to the computer;

(d) the inclusion of the operational procedures in the operator’s operations manual.

“(3) Where the operator of an aircraft has established operational procedures in relation to a computer under subregulation (1):

(a) each member of the personnel of the operator; and

(b) the pilot in command and other members of the flight crew of that aircraft;

shall, in relation to that computer, comply with those operational procedures.

“(4) A direction given under this regulation shall not take effect until:

(a) the twenty-eighth day after the day on which the direction is given; or

(b) if a later day of effect is specified in the direction, that later day.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 October 1989.

2. Statutory Rules 1988 No. 158 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1989 No. 31 and see also Statutory Rules 1989 No. 31.

 

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