Cert IV
I found this on the CASA website.
CASR Part 61 Discussion Paper
In the context of competency-based training, Ken Keech raised as a concern that there are many flying instructors who do not hold a Certificate IV. He observed that assessment skills are different to instruction skills. In response, Dick Reynoldson pointed out that Certificate IV was designed for industries that do not have the very structured training already in place in aviation. Accordingly, CASA believes that it is appropriate to provide transitional arrangements for existing flying instructors. Under the new rules all new flying instructors would be required to have completed the specified modules Certificate Level 4, and examiners and chief flying instructors would be required to have completed the whole Certificate.
Mr Reynoldson also clarified that CASA is proposing that flying schools providing training for flight instructors be required to be Registered Training Organisations (RTO), but this requirement would not apply to flying schools generally. To qualify for registration, the flying school would need to have at least one person holding a Certificate IV.
Geoff James expressed concern that there is nothing in the proposed Part 61 rules to prevent people with only a private pilot licence being employed as instructors by flying schools. He pointed out that there would be an incentive to recruit instructors with this lower qualification as they would be cheaper to employ. Dick Reynoldson advised that the change is designed to allow experts in small specialised fields, such as acrobatics, to qualify as instructors by demonstrating competence. It is not CASA's intention that people without a commercial pilot licence give instruction in flying schools. CASA agreed that there is a need to tighten the relevant provisions.
Who is Ken Keech ??