Originally Posted by
A Squared
OK, so apparently, I wasn't missing any context, that CASA really does have regulations prohibiting this.
All I can say is your regulatory agency is completely out of control and has lost all perspective.
Ho-Leee Crap!!!!!. I'm gonna stop complaining about the FAA!!!!
For pilot-performed maintenance CASA’s logic goes something like this:
If you do maintenance on an aircraft and you’re not authorised to do it, you’re a dangerous criminal.
There’s a reg that sets out what maintenance various classes of people are authorised to do.
Pilots of class B aircraft (essentially aircraft that aren’t certified in the Transport category or used in RPT) are authorised to do the maintenance set out in a schedule to the regulations (Schedule 8).
If the maintenance isn’t in Schedule 8, a pilot is not authorised to do it (unless separately authorised as e.g licensed maintenance engineer).
Complete jacking of an aircraft isn’t in Schedule 8.
Therefore, any pilot who carries out a complete jacking of an aircraft is a dangerous criminal. That includes private pilots jacking their own aircraft on their own private premises. (However, I should note: There may be different (more ‘relaxed’) rules for Experimental aircraft.)
The equivalent to Schedule 8 in the FARs is paragraph (c) of Appendix A to FAR 43. I don’t see any prohibition on complete jacking of aircraft. The overarching restriction on the list of maintenance tasks is that the task must not “involve complex assembly operations”.
This is a manifestation of why GA in Australia is so much healthier and safer than in the USA.