RW,
You may have a job waiting at the Law Courts after flying!!
(exemption etc, unless):
CAO 95.7.7.2(b):
"the helicopter is fitted with a serviceable means of locking the cyclic and collective controls"
It may be a long bow to draw your conclusion that "In this instance it is "Locks" in the legislation."? ISTM that we're discussing semantics in this case, and I can't honestly see that whoever in CASA drafted CAO95.7 meant to imply that it (CAO95.7) would need to be so rigidly interpreted and enforced, down to the definition of what is a 'means of locking the controls'.
Bell's friction system seems to have sufficed for many years, and it would be a long and drawn out court case to prove otherwise.
Last edited by John Eacott; 6th May 2004 at 10:31.