Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L01107:body:0:p44
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L01107
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Character Range: 115647–118419

the pilot of the aircraft facilitating a parachute descent (the jump aircraft).
Note: For paragraph (1)(b), see also section 5.39. Communications between a ground control assistant and the pilot of a jump aircraft is a parachuting activity, and defined as ground control in section 1.06.

Procedures for radiocommunications
 (2) If the ASAO approves radiocommunications for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), the ASAO must include, in its exposition, a description of the ASAO's approved communication protocols for making the following announcements in relation to a parachute descent:
 (a) that it is safe to jump;
 (b) that aircraft are to orbit, do not jump;
 (c) that experienced parachutists only are safe to jump;
 (d) that it is unsafe to jump, land the aircraft.

Obstacles, aircraft movement areas and landing hazards
 (3) A person authorised to act as drop zone safety officer for a parachute descent under section 5.27 must ensure:
 (a) the drop zone is free of obstacles that would interfere with the safe conduct of the descent; and
 (b) the following are located clear of any aircraft movement area:
 (i) the drop zone;
 (ii) if, for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), the ASAO has approved ground communication panels to be used at the drop zone to signal to the pilot of a jump aircraft—the ground communication panels.

 (4) The drop zone safety officer must, for a parachute descent, ensure that the distance from the drop zone to any landing hazard is:
 (a) if a student parachutist certificate authorises the descent:
 (i) 180 m; or
 (ii) if CASA has approved another distance, in writing, for the purposes of this provision—that distance; and
 (b) if a person conducting the parachute descent is the holder of a parachutist certificate—the distance set out in the exposition, for the purposes of this provision, of the Part 105 ASAO that administers the parachute descent.
 (5) If ground communication panels are used at the drop zone to signal to the pilot of a jump aircraft, the drop zone safety officer must also ensure that the distance from the ground communication panels to any landing hazard is as mentioned in paragraph (4)(a) or (b) (whichever applies).

Ground communication panels
 (6) Subsection (7) applies to the following persons in relation to a parachute descent for which ground communication panels are used at the drop zone to signal to the pilot of a jump aircraft:
 (a) if the descent involves a parachute descent undertaken by a person who is a trainee parachutist or tandem parachutist—both the drop zone safety officer and the chief parachuting instructor;
 (b) otherwise—the drop zone safety officer.
 (7) A person to whom this provision applies must ensure, before the parachute descent commences, that the dimensions of a