Part 105 (Parachuting from Aircraft) Manual of Standards 2023 (Cth)

Part 105 (Parachuting from Aircraft) Manual of Standards 2023

I, Philippa Jillian Spence, Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, make the following Manual of Standards.

Dated 22 August 2023

[Signed P. Spence] Pip Spence Director of Aviation Safety Contents Chapter 1—Preliminary 1.01 Name 1.02 Commencement 1.03 Authority 1.04 Definitions 1.05 References to TSOs, ETSOs, etc. 1.06 Prescribed Part 105 activity—ground control 1.07 Prescribed Part 105 activity—compatibility assessments Chapter 2—Reserve parachute assembly, and emergency parachute, requirements Division 1—Preliminary 2.01 Scope of Chapter 2 2.02 Definition for Chapter 2 Division 2—Reserve parachute assemblies 2.03 Definition for Division 2, Chapter 2 2.04 Requirements in relation to a reserve parachute assembly 2.05 Resolution of inconsistent requirements—subsection 2.04(4) 2.06 When only Part 105 ASAO requirements are to apply—subsection 2.04(4) Division 3—Emergency parachutes 2.07 Definition for Division 3, Chapter 2 2.08 Requirements in relation to an emergency parachute 2.09 When Part 105 ASAO's requirements are to apply—subsection 2.08(5) Chapter 3—Aircraft operated to facilitate parachute descents: trainee or tandem parachutists Division 1—Aircraft facilitating parachute descents: maintenance requirements 3.01 Aircraft facilitating parachute descents—maintenance requirements Division 2—Jump pilot training requirements: certain aircraft 3.02 Scope of Division 2, Chapter 3 3.03 Jump pilot training requirements—parachute descents by trainee or tandem parachutists 3.04 Requirements for competency reviews 3.05 Recency requirements for jump pilots—6-month competency reviews 3.06 Recency requirements for jump pilots—12-month competency reviews Division 3—Jump pilot flight-time requirements: powered-lift aircraft 3.07 Jump pilot flight-time requirements Chapter 4—Dropping things 4.01 Dropping things over populous areas 4.02 Dropping things other than over populous areas 4.03 ASAO exposition requirements—dropping of certain things other than over populous areas Chapter 5—Operational requirements Division 1—Scope of Chapter 5 5.01 Scope of Chapter 5 Division 2—Parachute airworthiness 5.02 Airworthiness authorisations 5.03 Part 105 ASAO requirements—reserve parachutes 5.04 Parachute packing logbooks for reserve or emergency parachutes 5.05 Parachute packing logbooks—main parachutes used by tandem, or student, parachutists 5.06 Parachute packing logbooks—records and certification of maintenance 5.07 Method of approving return to service of parachutes 5.08 Personal logbooks—records by packers and riggers 5.09 Parachute descents—equipment 5.10 Main parachute and container compatibility—parachutist requirements 5.11 Main parachute and container compatibility—packer and rigger requirements, etc. 5.12 Main parachute and container compatibility assessment—other assessors 5.13 Main parachute and container compatibility—change of parachute components 5.14 Reserve parachutes—recurring inspection: requirements for parachutists 5.15 Reserve parachutes—inconsistent inspection requirements 5.16 Inspections and packing of reserve parachutes 5.17 Recurring compatibility checks for reserve parachute assemblies 5.18 Inspections and packing of emergency parachutes 5.19 Maintenance—general requirements for packers and riggers 5.20 Maintenance that may be authorised under parachutist certificate 5.20A Maintenance requirements for main parachutes 5.21 Approval for return to service—reserve parachutes 5.22 Approval for return to service—emergency parachutes Division 3—Pilots of aircraft operated to facilitate parachute descents 5.23 Standards and competency units—jump pilot authorisations 5.24 Jump pilot radio procedures Division 4—Conduct of parachute descents 5.25 Procedures for safe conduct of parachute descents 5.26 Parachutist logbook—records by parachutists 5.27 Parachute descents must be supervised by drop zone safety officer 5.28 Drop zone safety officer responsibilities 5.29 Loadmaster responsibilities 5.30 Parachute descents—control seat of jump aircraft 5.31 Parachute descents—main parachute opening height 5.32 Parachute descents—cutaway descents 5.33 Parachute descents—descents at high altitudes 5.34 Parachute descents—relative-work descents 5.35 Entering cloud during parachute descents 5.36 Parachutes descents near or over bodies of water 5.37 Tandem descents—competency standards for tandem instructors 5.38 Meteorological conditions for parachute descents 5.39 Communications—ground control assistant and pilot 5.40 Emergency equipment carried on jump aircraft 5.41 Parachute descents—wind velocity requirements 5.42 Parachute descents—carriage of altimeters and other objects, etc. 5.43 Parachuting training organisation—safety management system 5.44 Parachuting training organisation—chief parachuting instructor 5.45 Parachute training operations 5.46 Display descents—display organisers 5.47 Display descents—equipment and operational requirements 5.48 Parachute descents involving landings in populous areas 5.49 Safe management of parachute drop zones 5.50 Radiocommunications broadcasts made by person on the ground 5.51 ASAO procedures for safe conduct at a drop zone Division 5—Conduct of aircraft operations for facilitating parachute descents 5.52 Safe conduct in relation to operation of jump aircraft 5.53 Safe opening of doors in flight, or removal of doors 5.54 Part 103 aircraft facilitating parachute descents—removal, etc. of aircraft doors or canopies 5.55 Parachute descents at non-controlled aerodromes where radio carriage is required 5.56 Parachute descents at certified aerodromes 5.57 Manned free balloons facilitating parachute descents—ASAO requirements 5.58 Manned free balloons in Part 131 recreational activity Chapter 6—Personnel fatigue management Chapter 7—Weight and balance 7.01 Scope of Chapter 7 7.02 Weight and balance documents 7.03 Loading requirements for aircraft other than Part 131 aircraft 7.04 Loading requirements for parachuting from manned free balloons Chapter 8—Instruments, indicators, equipment and systems 8.01 Scope of Chapter 8 8.02 Carriage of radio equipment on jump aircraft 8.03 Carriage of oxygen on jump aircraft Chapter 9—Flight crew 9.01 Pilot requirements for parachute descents—Part 103 aircraft