SAFA Skysailor Magazine

29 September | October 2022 SKY SAILOR Figure 1: Civil Aviation Safety Regulation structure. What is required for our application to become a certified Part 149 ASAO? We need a whole collection of documents addressing specific functions, and a written undertaking, as well as a completed appli- cation form. This collection of documents combined becomes something called an Exposition . It tells CASA how we run the good ship SAFA, and how we comply with the CASRs. Our Exposition will be assessed by CASA so that they can be assured that we can be safely left to do our thing. The Exposition suite describes all of our systems, processes and procedures relating to the administration of our members and their aircraft. This includes pilot authorisations, audit and surveillance, safety management, aircraft registration, enforcement, training, maintenance standards, how and where we keep our records and for how long, etc., etc., etc. Every aspect that they specify, we need to tell them about. We also have a deadline. Our application and Exposition suite of documents needs to be into CASA by 2 December 2022 if we want to take advantage of a fee-free assessment by CASA. After that date, we – and any other Sport Aviation body seeking certification – will have to pay CASA to assess the application. They estimate it will take them a minimum 535 man-hours to assess our application, at a rate of $160 an hour! We think we will have our application into them in October.