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Old 13th Mar 2024, 09:04
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Section 7AA of CASA EX82/21 – Part 119 of CASR – Supplementary Exemptions and Directions Instrument 2021 is where you need to look.

7AA Certain operations not air transport — exemption
(1) In this section: employed means employed by the operator under a contract of service, or a contract for services. exempted transport operation means one of the following:
(a) the operation or use of an aircraft by a company, a partnership, or a sole trader (the business):
(i) for the carriage of passengers, or goods (not being goods for sale or exchange); and
(ii) where the predominant purpose of the carriage is to facilitate the conduct of the operator’s business; and
(iii) where the facilitation is merely ancillary to conducting the business; and
(iv) where no passenger gives any reward for the carriage of themselves, or otherwise shares in the costs of the carriage; and
(v) where the carriage of any passenger, or the passenger’s notional share of the costs of the carriage, is not rewarded by anyone else; and
(vi) where the aircraft is flown by a pilot who is a related pilot, or a professional pilot employed by the business to fly the aircraft; and
Note The word pilot, in the singular, includes pilots, plural, if applicable.
(vii) where the aircraft used has a maximum certificated passenger seating capacity that is not greater than 19;
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maximum certificated passenger seating capacity has the meaning given by the CASR Dictionary.
MOS means Manual of Standards.
operator means the business, the government organisation, or the owner, (as the case requires) within the meaning of exempted transport operation.
professional pilot means the holder of a commercial pilot licence, or an air transport pilot licence.
related pilot means any of the following (as applicable, within the meaning of exempted transport operation) who holds at least a private pilot licence:
(a) the aircraft owner;
(b) the sole proprietor;
(c) the business partner;
(d) the company director;
(e) the company shareholder.
reward means money, goods, services, or property, or any other benefit or advantage of any kind, or the promise of any of the foregoing.
(2) The operator is exempted from compliance with the following:
(a) for an aeroplane:
(i) Part 119 of CASR; and
(ii) Subpart 91.F of CASR;
​​​​​​​(b) for a rotorcraft — Part 119 of CASR.

(3) The exemptions in paragraph (2) (a) are subject to the condition that
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​​​​​​​(5) This section ceases to have effect at the end of 1 December 2024.
If the operation meets ALL of the requirements listed above it can be flown under Part 91.
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