Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00050:body:0:p353
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00050
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 1226258–1229930

a low-level rating.
2.1.2              Recall the provisions of 157 of CAR 1988.
2.1.3              State the requirements for the conduct of flights below 500 ft AGL, including pilot responsibilities.

3.                       Operational planning
3.1                    Pre-flight and after-flight inspection
3.1.1              Describe the areas of the aircraft that should be inspected to ensure the safety of low-level operations.
3.1.2              Describe inspection and flight preparation of aircraft exposed to outside parking and harsh environmental conditions (for example, wing and control surfaces exposed to freezing conditions, engine, battery care, etc.).
3.2                    Operational inspections
3.2.1              Explain operating area inspection methods and purpose.
3.2.2              Explain limitations of ground inspections.
3.2.3              Explain the low-flying restrictions, planning notice, precautions and procedures with respect to overflying or in close proximity to buildings during aerial application operations, including stating the required safety distances and minimum height from buildings.

4.                       Operations on, or in vicinity of, non-controlled and controlled aerodromes or airstrips
4.1.1              State restrictions and conditions on low-level operations at aerodromes with movements of regular public transport aircraft.
4.1.2              Explain the circuit requirements at various types of aerodromes and ALA, including conditions applying to exemption from compliance with CASA published procedures.
4.2                    Aerial inspection
4.2.1              Explain the method and purpose (i.e. how and what are you looking for?).
4.2.2              Describe how to locate and plan for the management of obstructions and ground undulations from the air.
4.3                    Weather
4.3.1              Describe the effects of inversion on low-level operations.
4.3.2              Describe indicators of mechanical and thermal turbulence and shifting wind and explain implications for low-level operations.
4.3.3              Describe winds affecting low-level flying and associated flying conditions.
4.3.4              Describe the effect of mountainous influence on airflow and associated flying conditions.
4.3.5              Describe weather phenomena hazardous to low-level operations.
4.3.6              Recall the terrain and weather conditions that may lead to disorientation during low-level flight (for example, flight into rising ground and toward low ground, false horizons, ridgeline and valley effects) and explain pilot corrective action.
4.3.7              Explain typical terrain and seasonal effects on local wind direction, strength and mechanical or thermal turbulence.
4.4                    Planning and risk control
4.4.1              Describe the process of conducting a risk assessment, including the following:
(a)           identifying potential hazards or risk;
(b)           describing what a risk assessment matrix is, and how to use it;
(c)           assessing risk — probability versus severity;
(d)           assigning priority to identified risk.
4.4.2              Describing risk management, including:
(a)           using risk management hierarchy such as eliminating risk, substituting for a smaller risk, engineering and administering around risk;
(b)           consideration of typical changing weather conditions that require monitoring, for example, wind direction and speed and estimating their magnitude and direction, inversions and changing atmospheric stability; position of the sun and the danger of its glare, and importance of maintaining