My point in raising the AOC issue was that an application by an operator of foreign aircraft to operate those aircraft in to and out of Australian territory must, under the Civil Aviation Act, be assessed by CASA against the same criteria as are applied to the assessment of any other application for an AOC. If CASA is just ‘rubber stamping’ these applications, CASA is failing in its duty. If CASA is not conducting surveillance of the holders of these AOCs, CASA is failing in its duty.
And was anybody issued an infringement notice or prosecuted for contravention of CASR 91.245? A strict liability offence applicable to any crew of any aircraft in Australian Territory. We can confidently predict what CASA would do to a powerless nobody Australian pilot who did what this crew did.
Last edited by Lead Balloon; 22nd Mar 2022 at 00:54.