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aircraft — document carriage
        For subregulation 138.460 (2), the operator must ensure that when the flight of an aircraft begins:
(a) the aircraft is carrying completed weight and balance documents; and
(b) copies of the documents are available to CASA on request.
Note 1   The expression weight and balance documents is defined in the CASR Dictionary.
Note 2   Weight and balance documents should be retained by the operator in safe custody for at least 3 months after the flight.

21.03 Weight and balance documents
       (1) For subregulation 138.460 (1), this section prescribes:
(a) the weight and balance documents that are required for a relevant aircraft used in an aerial work operations; and
(b) requirements in relation to those documents.
       (2) For paragraph (1) (a), a load sheet, or other weight and balance document is required.
       (3) For paragraph (1) (b), the load sheet or other weight and balance document must be:
(a) as described in the operator's operations manual; and
(b) suitable to perform the function of a load sheet for the operations.
       (4) In this section:
load sheet means a form for recording:
(a) the weight and disposition of the disposable load on the relevant aircraft; and
(b) other loading information relevant for the operation.
relevant aircraft means an aircraft with a MTOW exceeding 5 700 kg, but not an aircraft which, for design reasons, is demonstrably impossible to load in a manner that ensures that its centre of gravity would fall outside the approved range during the aerial work operation.

CHAPTER 22 EQUIPMENT

22.01 Application
       (1) Unless it provides otherwise, this Chapter applies to the following operators:
(a) an aerial work certificate holder;
(b) a limited aerial work operator.

22.02 Purpose
        This Chapter prescribes requirements for the purposes of subregulation 138.465 (2).

22.03 Approval of equipment
       (1) Before a registered aircraft begins a flight, any equipment that is required to be fitted to, or carried on, the aircraft for the operation under a Part of the CASR or under this Chapter, must be compliant with the requirements of, or approved under, Part 21 of CASR.
       (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to survival equipment, including signalling equipment, carried under section 22.08.
       (3) Before a foreign-registered aircraft begins a flight in Australian airspace, the equipment required by this Chapter to be fitted to, or carried on, the aircraft must have been approved by the NAA of the aircraft's State of registry.
       (4) If equipment is fitted to, or carried on, an aircraft although not required by this Chapter to be so fitted or carried, then:
(a) the equipment need not have been compliant with the requirements of, or approved under, Part 21 of CASR; and
(b) for a foreign-registered