Originally Posted by The Kelpie
Assuming those are similar requirements to the CASA beta test how did they get around the requirement to have 240 hours of Aeronautical Experience prior to taking the flight test. Not total time, not sim time but Aeronautical Experience.
Aeronautical Experience is a CASA defined term and does not include sim time but only flight time and in that co-pilot time to be factored by a half.
Can someone explain this? Can CASA explain? Or is this just a big stuff up?
Aeronautical experience is not a constant definition, it changes for aircraft, helicopters, airships, gyroplane, and types of licence (PPL, CPL, ATPL, Flight Engineer). One needs to refer to the recent experience applicable to the type of licence being sought.
The requirements for a MPL(A)L are defined in CAR 1988 5.214
"(1) For paragraph 5.207 (2) (g), a person’s aeronautical experience must consist of at least 240 hours of training as a pilot during an approved course of training.
(2) The 240 hours must include:
(a) at least 40 hours of flight time as pilot of a registered aeroplane; and
(b) at least 10 hours of solo flight time in a registered aeroplane; and
(c) at least 5 hours of cross‑country flight time as pilot in command in a registered aeroplane; and
(d) at least 12 take‑offs and 12 landings in the type of aeroplane mentioned in paragraph 5.207 (2) (f).
(3) For subregulation (2), the same flight time may be counted towards the time required by as many of paragraphs (2) (a), (b) and (c) as describe the flight time.
(4) The balance of the 240 hours of training may be in an approved synthetic flight trainer."
These requirements stem from ICAO Annex 1 Personal Licensing
"2.5.3 Experience
2.5.3.1 The applicant shall have completed in an approved training course not less than 240 hours as pilot flying and pilot not flying of actual and simulated flight.
2.5.3.2 Flight experience in actual flight shall include at least the experience requirements at 2.3.3.1, upset recovery training, night flying and flight by reference solely to instruments.
2.5.3.3 In addition to meeting the provisions of 2.5.3.2, the applicant shall have gained, in a turbine-powered aeroplane certificated for operation with a minimum crew of at least two pilots, or in a flight simulation training device approved for that purpose by the Licensing Authority in accordance with Appendix 3, paragraph 4, the experience necessary to achieve the advanced level of competency defined in Appendix 3."
'4. Simulated flight
4.1 The flight simulation training devices used to gain the experience specified in Chapter 2, 2.5.3.3, shall have been approved by the Licensing Authority."
CASAs requirements actually exceeds ICAOs.