Proposed safety standard - Community service flights (CD 1814OS)

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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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My question to casa is who’s going to pay for the now large cost of operating a charity flight as what the proposed changes incure is a greater maint cost and pilot training cost? There is already a decline in general aviation in Australia due over regulation from the governing body. Why must we look to over regulate instead of look at the cost to safely operate an aircraft. If casa is implementing these changes they should then seek the funding for a commercial operator to cover a contract as the average person doing a community service in there already maintained to a worldwide standard ga aircraft can no longer do so.