Cheers for explaining that. So CAR 256A must still stand then and we're technically not allowed to carry an animal, even if suitably contained and restrained, in a single compartment light aircraft in Australia? That's how I interpret it but I would be very pleased to be informed otherwise.
Is the POH-designated cargo place in a light aircraft considered part of the passenger compartment if there's no bulkhead between them...? E.g. C206
Picking apart these sorts of regulation interpretations is a nightmare
256a1(b) allows an animal to be carried in the cabin without a container if permit conditions are satisfied. I had a harness for Mandy which was secured to a rear seatbelt. She st on a canvas sheet covered with an absorbent pad and I had a lead secured so she couldn't move around a lot.
Makes sense not to have her become a projectile in the event of a sudden stop but she found the incontinence pad a bit embarrassing.
She was never air sick and she never soiled her pad even when I left her in the aircraft overnight at Cobar.
Kaz