Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01027:reg:6:p33
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01027
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 6 (pt 33/70)
Character Range: 3200129–3203047

mentioned in subregulation (1); and
 (b) the person does not comply with the requirement.
 (3) A person commits an offence of strict liability if the person contravenes subregulation (2).
Penalty: 50 penalty units.

138.380  Procedures in relation to frost etc.
  An aerial work operator's operations manual must include the following:
 (a) procedures for the inspection of the aircraft by the pilot in command before a flight for which frost or freezing conditions exist or are forecast;
 (b) procedures for carrying out de‑icing and anti‑icing measures before a flight for which these measures are necessary;
 (c) procedures for using de‑icing and anti‑icing equipment during a flight.

138.385  Procedures in relation to polar operations
 (1) This regulation applies to an aircraft if it is used to conduct a flight to or from an aerodrome in a polar region.
 (2) The aerial work operator's operations manual must include procedures for the following:
 (a) monitoring and dealing with fuel freezing;
 (b) ensuring communication capability for the duration of an operation that includes a flight mentioned in subregulation (1);
 (c) training the aircraft's flight crew in polar operations;
 (d) ensuring that maintenance personnel who will carry out maintenance on the aircraft in a polar region are appropriately trained;
 (e) mitigating crew member and aerial work passenger exposure to cosmic radiation during solar flare activity;
 (f) if the aircraft will not be flown over water during a flight mentioned in subregulation (1) and it is reasonably likely a normal or emergency landing will expose persons on the aircraft to the polar environment in a location without support personnel immediately available—ensuring that each person on the aircraft will wear a serviceable, cold‑weather, anti‑exposure suit;
 (g) if the aircraft will be flown over water during a flight mentioned in subregulation (1) and it is reasonably likely that an emergency landing will expose the persons on the aircraft to a landing on or in water—ensuring that each person on the aircraft will wear an immersion suit that is appropriate for the temperatures in which the flight will be conducted;
 (h) dealing with emergency landings, or instruments, indicators, equipment or systems becoming inoperative, while the aircraft is away from the base for an operation that includes a flight mentioned in subregulation (1).

Division 138.D.10—Rules for external load operations

138.400  Certain night operations prohibited unless operation is an emergency service operation or approved by CASA
 (1A) This regulation applies to the operator of an aircraft for an aerial work operation whether or not the operator holds an aerial work certificate authorising the operation.
 (1) The operator and the pilot in command of an aircraft for a flight involving an aerial work operation each contravene this subregulation if:
 (a) the operation is