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(b) holds a recreational pilot licence with a flight radio endorsement.
PPL and above don't get the flight radio endo (it seems) and they don't need it (it seems) due to the first bit - authorised to transmit.
I see now, CASR 61.120 authorises students to transmit on the radio, without having a pilot's licence or a Flight Radio Operators Licence.
I wonder if GFA, ASRA, etc and RA-Aus operators are authorised now under some new bunkem, or have they slipped through the net. Seems the only possibilities are via Part 61, 64 or 65. I'll go for a look.
Looks like the receiving of incoming radio broadcasts is free. (Free from prosecution/persecution under strict liability.) Yippee.
Last edited by thunderbird five; 25th Oct 2014 at 06:14.