Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01244:front:0:p19
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01244
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 78109–81014

facility, namely, a change:

(a) from day VFR operations, to night VFR operations;

(b) from non-instrument approaches, to non-precision instrument approaches;

(c) from non-precision instrument approaches, to precision instrument approaches;

(d) from precision CAT I approaches, to precision CAT II or CAT III approaches;

(e) which enables aircraft take-offs and aerodrome surface movements in runway visibility or RVR conditions of less than 550 m;

(f) which enables the aerodrome to accommodate aircraft of a higher category specified in the ARC under section 4.01 of this MOS than was the case before the change;

(g) which enables the aerodrome to accommodate aircraft on scheduled international operations.

Note   The upgrade of a particular aerodrome facility that previously was not compliant with the relevant standards in the MOS is the trigger for the particular facility to be brought into compliance with the MOS. Since the timing and budgeting of an upgrade is under the aerodrome operator's control, so too is the timing of works necessary to bring the non-compliant facility into compliance with this MOS.

2.02 Application — new aerodromes

        This MOS applies:

(a) for an aerodrome that comes into operation for the first time after the commencement of this MOS (a new aerodrome); and

(b) to the operator of a new aerodrome.

2.03 Application — Chapter 22

        Despite anything else in this MOS, Chapter 22 applies to and for all aerodromes.

2.04 Application — existing aerodromes etc.

       (1) Subject to subsection (3), this MOS applies to the operator of an existing aerodrome.

       (2) Subject to subsection (3), this MOS applies for an existing aerodrome facility.

       (3) The standards in this MOS for an aerodrome facility and the obstacle limitation surfaces associated with a runway (the OLS) do not apply to a grandfathered facility of the same kind if the grandfathered facility:

(a) complies, and continues to comply, with the standards which applied to the aerodrome facility and the OLS immediately before the commencement of this MOS, as if they continued in force (the grandfathered rules); and

(b) is not:

 (i) replaced; or

 (ii) upgraded; and

(c) is maintained in accordance with the requirements of this MOS for the same kind of facility.

Note   Subsection 2.04 (3) indicates when this MOS does not apply to the aerodrome facilities of an existing aerodrome with grandfathered status. Without grandfathered status, all of the requirements of this MOS apply. With grandfathered status, only the standards in this MOS for an aerodrome facility (as defined), and for the obstacle limitation surfaces associated with a runway that is, or is part of, such a facility, do not apply. Instead, the standards for the aerodrome facility and runway-associated obstacle limitation surfaces that previously applied continue to apply. Processes or