Year: 1990

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Caa Revising Maintenance Legislation Sweeping changes to aircraft maintenance legislation and surveillance have been foreshadowed in a six page circular aircraft operators issued by the Civil Aviation Authority. The changes, to be promulgated in October, are to take effect from 1 January 1991 and are part of an overall program of rationalisation being undertaken on

Certification Changes to Affect CAR134 Aircraft The CAA Board has advised that as of July it has decided to eliminate unique Australian requirements for imported aircraft. For many years importers of aircraft brought into Australia have complained that regardless of the aircraft having been certificated overseas, eg in the USA or UK, the imported machine

HAA Versus the Spcc The Helicopter Association of Australia (HAA) is involved in a fight which, if lost, could see the virtual end of urban helicopter operations in Australia. The dispute, with the NSW State Pollution Control Commission (SPCC), is over that department’s understanding of noise standards. The HAA also claims the SPCC is attempting

Expenditure and is the only possible option for Qantas. . . The airline’s survival as an international carrier is at stake unless immediate action to raise public equity to satisfy Qantas’ $6bn re-equipment requirement over the next six years is taken immediately. ” The Government/Opposition stance on the question of Qantas privatisation therefore appears, for

The Canadian Experience This is the first of a three part series examining the effects of deregulation in other countries. Next issue we analyse the New Zealand experience while in our November edition, we look at the Australian scene and survey what might lie ahead in the coming year for domestic air travellers. The theory