Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01027:reg:6:p6
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01027
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 6 (pt 6/70)
Character Range: 3128520–3131400

(3) A dispensing operation means dropping or releasing any substance or object from an aircraft in flight and includes training for such an operation.
 (4) A task specialist operation means carrying out a specialised activity using an aircraft in flight and includes training for such an activity.
 (5) Despite subregulation (1), an aerial work operation does not include the following:
 (a) a medical transport operation;
 (b) an external load operation involving winching a person, if the operation is conducted as part of an air transport operation;
 (c) glider towing;
 (d) a person undertaking a parachute descent;
 (e) an aerial application operation (including any external load operation undertaken as part of that operation) to apply fire retardants (including water), or oil or chemical dispersants, if the operation is conducted by a person holding a civil aviation authorisation under Part 137 to undertake the operation;
 (f) any other aerial application operation;
 (g) any other operation of a kind prescribed by the Part 138 Manual of Standards for the purposes of this paragraph.

138.012  Definition of significant change
  A significant change, for an aerial work operator, means:
 (a) a change in relation to any of the following:
 (i) the location and operation of the operator's main operating bases, including the opening or closing of main operating bases;
 (ii) the operator's key personnel;
 (iii) a person authorised to carry out the responsibilities of any of the key personnel if the position holder is absent from the position or cannot carry out the responsibilities of the position;
 (iv) the formal reporting lines for a managerial or operational position with safety functions and responsibilities that reports directly to any of the key personnel;
 (v) the operator's process for making changes that relate to the safe conduct and management of the operator's aerial work operations;
 (vi) the kinds of aerial work operations the operator is authorised to conduct under the operator's aerial work certificate;
 (vii) the kind of operations involving a Class D external load conducted by the operator, including beginning to operate that kind of operation (but not including ceasing to conduct that kind of operation);
 (viii) for an aerial work operator that is not required to have either a training and checking system under regulation 138.125 or a safety management system under regulation 138.140—the flight rules under which the operator conducts the operator's aerial work operations (but not including starting operations under the visual flight rules if operations were already conducted under the instrument flight rules); or
 (b) any of the following changes in relation to the aircraft used in the operator's aerial work operations:
 (i) the operator first starts to use an aircraft for which a pilot of the aircraft would need a type