Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00050:body:0:p348
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00050
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Character Range: 1209267–1212836

flying and associated flying conditions.
5.3.4              Describe the effect of mountainous influence on airflow and associated flying conditions.
5.3.5              Describe weather phenomena hazardous to low-flying operations.
5.3.6              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.
5.3.7              Explain typical terrain and seasonal effects on local wind direction, strength and mechanical or thermal turbulence.
5.4                    Planning and risk control
5.4.1              Describe the planning tools available to an aerial application pilot, including:
(a)           describing the process of risk assessment, including the following:
(i)             identifying potential hazards or risk;
(ii)            describing what a risk assessment matrix is, and how to use it;
(iii)          assessing risk — probability versus severity;
(iv)          assigning priority to identified risk.
5.4.2              Describing risk management, including:
(a)           using risk management hierarchy such as eliminating risk, substituting for a smaller risk, engineering and administering around risk.
5.4.3              Explaining what is an Aerial Application Management Plan (AMP), including:
(a)           describing its key components and how it affects safety of the flight, the importance of monitoring an AMP, and the need for pilots to meet changing conditions;
(b)           describing 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 a clean, clear and serviceable windscreen.

6.                       Flight – aerial application
6.1                    Operational techniques
6.1.1              For the treatment area, describe methods of managing the following given factors (for main runs and clean up swaths):
(a)           wind direction;
(b)           sun glare;
(c)           obstructions, particularly wires and powerlines.
6.1.2              Describe hazards associated with application, such as hilly terrain, downdraughts, turbulence, false horizon effect, high country and irregular areas.
6.1.3              Explain precautionary actions before starting a clean-up.
6.1.4              Explain how to identify wire runs, and minimise associated risks, with the following:
(a)           preliminary inspection of treatment area;
(b)           how to judge distance to the wire;
(c)           the danger and forms of distraction;
(d)           considerations for flying above or under the wire;
(e)           considerations for crossing oblique wires;
(f)             visual cues of wire locations such as pole runs, type, numbers and attitude of;
(g)           insulators, cross-stress and angle of cross-stress, supplementary or spur wires buildings;
(h)           characteristics and dangers of high wires and guy wires;
(i)             factors affecting misjudgment of wire clearance;
(j)             how to maintain awareness of located wires;
(k)           the hazards of mental overload.
6.1.5              Describe the operation of DGNSS for track guidance, including the importance of maintaining an active scan outside the cockpit while referencing the DGNSS.
6.1.6              Explain considerations