Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2015C00471:reg:7:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2015C00471
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 7 (pt 5/9)
Character Range: 25207–28049

of CAR 1988 concerns maintenance, specified in Schedule 8 of CAR 1988, that may be carried out by a pilot of a Class B aircraft. A WHR is a class B aircraft.

Note 2   Under instrument CASA 155/11, for paragraph 42ZC (4) (e) of CAR 1988, each subcategory B1 licence holder, or category B2 licence holder, is authorised to carry out the maintenance mentioned in Schedule 8 of CAR 1988 on any class B aircraft, including a WHR.

10 Wood and fabric — removal of exclusion from a licence category

       10.1A COA holder may authorise a wood and fabric employee to carry out maintenance:

(a) of the wooden portion of a wooden construction aircraft or wooden aircraft components; or

(b) that is the replacement, or repair of, aircraft fabric surfaces.

       10.2A maintenance authorisation may only be issued once for the employee, and only for a period of 6 months.

       10.3Before issuing the maintenance authorisation, the COA holder must provide, and the employee must successfully complete, training and assessment in the maintenance of wooden aircraft and wooden aircraft components, or maintenance on, or the replacement and repair, of aircraft fabric surfaces.

       10.4The training and assessment mentioned in paragraph 10.3 must be in accordance with the COA holder's Quality Control Manual as approved in writing by CASA for training and assessment in one of the subjects mentioned in paragraph 10.3 and of a standard equivalent to whichever of the following Australian Qualifications Framework units is applicable:

(a) MEA 357A (inspect, test and repair fabric surfaces);

(b) MEA 358A (re-cover aircraft fabric surfaces);

(c) MEA 359A (inspect and repair aircraft wooden structures).

       10.5Before issuing a maintenance authorisation of the kind referred to in paragraph 10.1, the COA holder must be, in respect of the maintenance to be performed by the employee:

(a) a CASA delegate for subregulation 42ZC (6) of CAR 1988 who may authorise a person for paragraph 42ZC (3) (d) or (4) (e) of CAR 1988 (as the case requires);

(b) an authorised person for subregulation 42ZC (7) of CAR 1988, who may authorise a person for paragraph 42ZC (3) (d) of CAR 1988.

       10.6If it appears to a COA holder that an employee has, after successfully completing training and assessment in accordance with paragraph 10.3, successfully carried out maintenance under an authorisation issued under paragraph 10.1, the COA holder may, after at least 5 months of the authorisation period have elapsed, provide CASA and the employee with a provisional notice in the approved form of satisfactory completion of training and assessment.

       10.7If, not earlier than 3 days before the authorisation period lapses, the COA holder wishes to confirm that an employee has satisfactorily completed their training and assessment, the COA