AFR, BFR, whatever - it's a check done every two years unless exempt in the way you describe, i.e. in a regular check program with a contracting state airline.

But I suspect from reading all the bumpfh on the subject that some form of recognised certification would have to be in CASA's hands before you rocked up on leave and blasted off in a VH aircraft on a private mission. They state quite clearly that they retain ultimate control of such matters (as, being an ICAO contracting state, they must). Hence the additional requirements for an oral back home in Oz to renew an instrument rating.

So how would CASA monitor your AFR status if they don't regularly receive and retain your paperwork?

I shudder to think what the insurers and CASA would have said had I returned from overseas and simply renewed my Australian medical then gone flying privately on an assumption that because my last gig had been with a recognised contracting state, all was kosher. Then ended up inverted in a paddock somewhere.

It's all ok. Lots of us have been doing just that for years.

I have it in writing from CASA.

Don't stress. :ok:

Nitpicker.
Any chance you could post the letter from CASA or at least details of the regulation or whatever they used to approve this.
Thanks.

Hmm, suddenly this thread is very quiet. C'mon Nits, show us what ya got.

A direct question as to whether or not we needed to do AFR in an Australian registered Aircraft with an approved Australian testing officer to fly VFR in Oz as we are under the CX check and training system in HK.

Their answer was:---

The definition in Civil Aviation Regulations for 'aeroplane proficiency
check' allows you to consider this as a flight review. The definition
refers to a proficiency check conducted by an operator in a contracting
State, which you will fall under.

However, normal prudence should be used with respect to familiarity with
any GA aircraft you may not have flown for some time.

If you have any further inquiries, do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards,

Well??? No good??

No. All good. Thanks for that.