Proposed safety standard - Community service flights (CD 1814OS) - Civil Aviation Safety Authority

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Introduction of proposed safety standard - community service flights

The proposal introduces minimum CSF pilot experience, licensing and medical requirements, requirement of flights at night to be conducted using instrument procedures instead of visual procedures and requires slightly enhanced aircraft maintenance requirements, in line with other operations within Australia involving similar participants.

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I am very concerned by the general over regulation of General Aviation activities. I am concerned that the extra regulation will not increase safety outcomes and will further reduce the availability of Community Service Flights. The only completely safe sky is one in which no aircraft are present, but this is unrealistic. Regulation is slowly but very surely killing the GA industry and the proposed additional requirements for CSFs is yet another example of this.