Folks,
The fact that this is even an issue is yet another example of the quite unnecessarily complex, convoluted and contradictory regulations, under which Australian aviation labours ( or is that Labor's).
I am reminded of the Delphic pronouncement of one CASA regional office that you could not train on your own Experimental Amateur Built aircraft, despite quite specific regulations that say you can ----- all on the basis of "their interpretations" that the aircraft had to be "on the AOC", and only Standard Category C of A" aircraft could be on an AOC.
That was sorted out very smartly --- by a previous senior management of CASA ---- I wonder what the "policy" might be, now, if the precedent had not already been set.
Tootle pip!!