Manual of Standards Part 90 Amendment Instrument 2011 (No. 1) (Cth)

I, TERENCE LINDSAY FARQUHARSON, Acting Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, make this instrument under regulation 90.020 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

[Signed T. Farquharson]

Terry Farquharson
Acting Director of Aviation Safety

12 October 2011

Manual of Standards Part 90 Amendment Instrument 2011 (No. 1)

1          Name of instrument

This instrument is the Manual of Standards Part 90 Amendment Instrument 2011 (No. 1).

2          Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after registration.

3          Amendment of Manual of Standards Part 90 Instrument 2010

Manual of Standards Part 90 Instrument 2010 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1          Amendments

[1]       Section 1

repeal

[2]       Section 2

repeal

[3]       Section 3

repeal

[4]       Schedule 1, heading

omit

[5]       Schedule 1

omit

Additional airworthiness standards

[6]       Part 1, General

before

1          Definitions

insert

1A       Name of instrument

This instrument is the Part 90 Manual of Standards (MOS).

[7]       Schedule 1, subsection 31.4

substitute

31.4     If the application for the type certificate for a transport category aeroplane was filed before 1 May 1972, for each Type II or larger passenger emergency exit with a locking mechanism released by rotary motion of a handle, the instructions for opening must be shown by:

(a)   a red arrow with a shaft at least 19 mm wide and a head twice the width of the shaft, extending along at least 70 degrees of arc at a radius approximately equal to three quarters of the handle length; and

(b)   the word OPEN in red capital letters at least 25 mm high on a contrasting background placed horizontally adjacent to the arrowhead to show the open position of the handle.