Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00341:body:0:p77
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00341
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Character Range: 193155–196049

23.06.
Note   An operator commits an offence if the operator assigns to duty for a flight an FCM who has not been assessed as competent to perform the assigned duties in accordance with the operator's operations manual: see regulation 138.485.

23.06 Remedial training and checking requirements
       (1) This section applies if an FCM fails an operator proficiency check or general emergency competency check for an aerial work operation, for an operator, in a specific kind of aircraft.
       (2) Before being assigned to duty as an FCM for a flight in the relevant kind of aircraft, the FCM must:
(a) successfully complete a program of remedial training in relation to the matters in which the FCM failed to demonstrate competency, as identified in the operator proficiency check or general emergency competency check result; and
(b) then successfully complete an operator proficiency check or general emergency competency check for the specific kind of aircraft; and
(c) then have the status of an FCM eligible to carry out an unsupervised aerial work operation flight in the specific kind of aircraft, reinstated by the operator, or by another operator who is aware of the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1).

Division 2 Qualification as pilot in command

23.07 Application
       (1) This Division applies to the following operators:
(a) an aerial work certificate holder, whether or not subregulation 138.125 (1) applies to the holder;
(b) a limited aerial work operator.
       (2) For paragraph 138.500 (1) (c), this Division prescribes the qualifications and experience a pilot in command must have for a flight for an operator.

23.08 Specific qualifications and experience
       (1) For an external load operation that involves a Class D external load in the form of a person suspended from a belly hook, the pilot in command must have at least the following:
(a) 1 000 hours total rotorcraft flight time;
(b) 50 hours on the particular rotorcraft type to be used in the operation;
(c) 100 hours in vertical reference operations;
(d) successfully completed an approved training program for proficiency in sling load operations requiring the carriage of persons (relevant proficiency);
(e) a certificate of relevant proficiency issued by an approved person.
       (2) For subsection (1):
approved person means:
(a) a training and check pilot in accordance with Division 3; or
(b) the operator's head of operations or another pilot provided that such person:
           (i) is competent in imparting Class D external load operation training for picking up, carrying and releasing persons suspended from a belly hook (the relevant activity); and
           (ii) has, for the purposes of this subparagraph, applied to CASA for, and been granted, an authorisation, under and for the purposes of this subparagraph, to conduct the relevant activity; or
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