Creamie,
There is no current link, the SCC has not been advised of the details, and as I understand it, contrary to SCC protocols, will only see it when the NPRM is produced.
It seems the proposed changes have been sent to selected members of AWAL.
In essence, aircraft that are ex-military, or are of a type used by a military force, even if the individual aircraft was never a military aircraft, will no longer be eligible for a certificate in the Experimental Exhibition category.
The only justification for this change, put forward at the recent AWAL AGM, was that owners putting their aircraft in Experimental Exhibition category were causing AWAL "revenue leakage" or words to that effect. Most of these aircraft are not eligible for a Limiter Cat. certificate, the proposed mechanisms to deal with that look like they have not really been thought through.
It is certainly not a regulatory change that has any air safety basis.
There has, apparently, been no consultation outside AWAL, and of particular concern to me is the fate of CAR 262AM.
262AM is for the protection of passengers, not for the benefit of aircraft owners and operator, and at best, seems to have been seriously watered down in the proposed CASR 132. 262AM has been referred to as an "an old regulation" by an officer of CASA recently, in public, it may date to 1998, but that is not "old" , and old is not the same as redundant.
Tootle pip!!
Last edited by LeadSled; 18th Jan 2013 at 23:05.