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Character Range: 51767–54725

"air, inspect and repack.".

5.07  Method of approving return to service of parachutes
 (1) The signature in the parachute packing logbook of a parachute, of a person certifying maintenance carried out on the parachute or parachute assembly, constitutes the person's approval for the return to service of the parachute in relation to that maintenance.
 (2) A person must not, for maintenance carried out on a parachute or parachute assembly (including an inspection), certify the maintenance in the parachute packing logbook unless the person is satisfied that, following the maintenance, the parachute or parachute assembly meets the requirements applying under this Division for approval of return to service of the parachute.
Note: See sections 5.21 and 5.22 for requirements about approving the return to service of a parachute following maintenance carried out.

5.08  Personal logbooks—records by packers and riggers
 (1) A packer, or rigger, must maintain a personal logbook into which the person records the activities mentioned in subsection (2) that the person carries out under the person's packer or rigger authorisation.
 (2) For subsection (1), the activities are:
 (a) packing or assembling a reserve or emergency parachute; or
 (b) the following:
 (i) conducting a compatibility assessment mentioned in section 5.10;
 (ii) conducting an inspection mentioned in section 5.14 or 5.18;
 (iii) repairing or modifying a parachute mentioned in paragraph (a);
 (iv) carrying out, under the person's packer or rigger authorisation, any other maintenance relating to a parachute mentioned in paragraph (a).
Note: The manufacturer of a parachute approves modifications of the parachute under the person's relevant design authority or production approval: see Chapter 2.
 (3) The packer or rigger must include in the personal logbook the following information for each activity:
 (a) information identifying the parachute or other equipment;
 (b) the date the activity was carried out;
 (c) a description of the activity performed.
 (4) The packer or rigger must:
 (a) ensure that the logbook is readily accessible by a person authorised by the Part 105 ASAO or CASA; and
 (b) if the logbook is kept in an electronic form, ensure also that the information kept in the logbook is capable of being downloaded in a legible format; and
 (c) produce the logbook for inspection on request by the ASAO or CASA.

5.09  Parachute descents—equipment
 (1) Subject to subsection 5.32(2), a person who undertakes a parachute descent must be wearing parachute equipment comprised of the reserve parachute assembly and a main parachute.
Note: Subsection 5.32(2), which deals with cutaway descents, requires the carriage of 2 reserve parachutes for a cutaway descent.
 (2) A parachutist instructor who is supervising a parachute descent authorised by a student parachutist certificate must ensure the trainee parachutist does not commence the descent unless the trainee