Part 133 (Australian Air Transport Operations—Rotorcraft) Manual of Standards 2020 (Cth)

Part 133 (Australian Air Transport Operations—Rotorcraft) Manual of Standards 2020 (as amended)

made under the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

Compilation No. 3

Compilation date: 10 April 2024

Includes amendments up to: F2024L00435

Prepared by the Advisory and Drafting Branch, Legal, International and Regulatory Affairs Division, Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Canberra. Contents Chapter 1 — Preliminary 1.01 Name 1.03 Authority 1.04 Definitions and abbreviations 1.05 Meaning of medical transport operating site 1.06 References to ICAO documents 1.07 References to AS/NZS standards, TSOs, ETSOs etc. 1.08 Applied, adopted or incorporated documents Chapter 2 — Operational limitations 2.01 Permitted categories of rotorcraft 2.02 Requirement, or limitation, in flight manual Chapter 3 — Carriage of documents and information Division 1—Flight-related documents 3.01 Carriage of documents 3.02 Carriage of documents—flights that begin, or end, outside Australian territory 3.03 Keeping and updating documents etc. Division 2—Emergency and survival equipment 3.04 Information about emergency and survival equipment Chapter 4 — Operational flight plans 4.01 Pre-flight content of operational flight plan 4.02 End of flight information for operational flight plans Chapter 5 — Medical transport operations Division 1—External load operation conducted during medical transport operation 5.01 Definitions for Division 1 5.02 Purpose of sections 5.03 to 5.06 5.03 Requirements generally 5.04 Pilot in command to consider risk etc. 5.05 Ongoing risk-monitoring 5.06 Compliance with, or approval under, Part 21 of CASR 5.07 Operator's exposition Division 2—Minimum height rules for medical transport operation 5.08 Prescribed circumstances 5.09 Purpose of sections 5.10 to 5.12 5.10 Requirements for IFR flight, or VFR flight at night, during medical transport operation 5.11 Requirements for flight over populous area or public gathering 5.12 Requirements for flight other than over a populous area or public gathering Chapter 6 — Fuel requirements 6.01 Purpose of Chapter 6 6.02 Definitions for Chapter 6 6.03 General requirements 6.04 Amounts of fuel to be carried on board for a flight 6.05 Requirements for determining fuel before, and monitoring fuel during, flight 6.06 Procedures if fuel reaches specified amount 6.07 Operational variations—fuel calculations Chapter 7 — Safety briefings, instructions and demonstrations 7.01 Safety briefing card 7.02 Safety briefings, instructions, or demonstrations, before take-off 7.03 Safety instructions during flight Chapter 7A — Head-up display, enhanced vision system and synthetic vision system 7A.01 Requirements for use of head-up display, enhanced vision system and synthetic vision system Chapter 8 — NVIS flights Division 1—Purpose, application and definitions 8.01 Purpose 8.01A Application 8.02 Definitions Division 2—Requirements for an NVIS flight 8.03 General requirements for NVIS flights 8.04 HLS-NVIS standard 8.05 HLS-NVIS basic 8.06 No formation flights for NVIS flights 8.07 Alternate lighting requirements for NVIS flights Division 3—Additional requirements for NVIS operations 8.08 Helicopter lighting 8.09 Minimum height under the NVFR or the IFR 8.10 Weather requirements — cloud Chapter 9 — Wearing of seatbelt, safety harness or restraint strap etc. 9.01 Exemption 9.02 Restraining of persons on a flight of a rotorcraft 9.03 Fastening of seatbelt or shoulder harness — passengers 9.04 Wearing of safety harness and restraint strap, or restraining on stretcher etc. — medical transport operation 9.05 Wearing of safety harness and restraint strap — certain crew members Chapter 10 — Performance Division 1—Preliminary 10.01 Definitions for Chapter 10 10.02 Meaning of adequate vertical margin 10.03 Meaning of take‑off distance required – rotorcraft 10.04 When a rotorcraft is flown in performance class 1 10.05 When a rotorcraft is flown in performance class 2 10.06 When a rotorcraft is flown in performance class 2 with exposure 10.07 When a rotorcraft is flown in performance class 3 Division 2—Flight in performance class 1 or 2 or performance class 2 with exposure 10.08 Requirement to be a Category A rotorcraft Division 3—Flight in performance class 2 with exposure Subdivision 1—Preliminary 10.09 Definitions for Division 3 Subdivision 2—Requirements to be complied with 10.10 Purpose of Subdivision 2 10.11 Maximum permitted exposure time 10.12 Take-off weight limitations 10.13 Preventative maintenance 10.14 Risk assessments 10.15 Flight manual and exposition 10.16 Flight crew training and checking requirements Subdivision 3—Information to be included in application for approval 10.17 Purpose of Subdivision 3 10.18 Reliability and sudden power loss 10.19 Type certificate holder's modification standard 10.20 Preventative maintenance 10.21 Risk assessment 10.22 Usage monitoring system 10.23 Flight manual and operator's exposition 10.24 Flight crew training and checking 10.25 Incident reporting Division 4—Flight in performance class 3 10.26 Flight in performance class 3 over populous areas Division 5—Rotorcraft performance — exposition — procedures for stages of flight 10.27 Exposition procedures for operations — rotorcraft flown in performance class 1 10.28 Exposition procedures for operations — rotorcraft flown in performance class 2 or performance class 2 with exposure 10.29 Exposition procedures for operations — rotorcraft flown in performance class 3 10.30 Exposition procedures for operations — general Division 6—Rotorcraft performance — pre‑flight 10.31 Pre‑flight determination of performance 10.32 Pre-flight identification of relevant obstacles Division 7—Rotorcraft performance — performance class 1 10.33 Performance class 1 — take‑off 10.34 Performance class 1 — take‑off and initial climb 10.35 Performance class 1 — en route 10.36 Performance class 1 — approach and landing, or baulked landing Division 8—Rotorcraft performance — performance class 2 10.37 Performance class 2 — take‑off 10.38 Performance class 2 — take‑off and initial climb 10.39 Performance class 2 — en route 10.40 Performance class 2 — approach and landing, or baulked landing Division 9—Rotorcraft performance — performance class 3 10.41 Performance class 3 — take‑off 10.42 Performance class 3 — take‑off and initial climb 10.43 Performance class 3 — en route 10.44 Performance class 3 — approach and landing, or baulked landing Chapter 11 — Equipment Division 1—General 11.01 Purpose of Chapter 11 etc. Division 2—Approvals, visibility and inoperability 11.02 Approval of rotorcraft equipment 11.03 Visibility and accessibility of equipment 11.04 Serviceability of equipment Division 3—Flight instruments 11.05 Day VFR flight instrument requirements 11.06 Night VFR flight instrument requirements 11.07 IFR flight instruments Division 4—Operational equipment 11.08 Radiocommunication systems 11.09 Navigation equipment 11.10 Automatic pilot 11.11 Survival equipment Division 5—Lighting systems 11.12 Cockpit, and cabin, lighting requirements 11.13 Anti-collision lights 11.14 Landing lights 11.15 Navigation lights Division 6—Alerting and warning system requirements 11.16 Altitude alerting equipment and assigned altitude indicator 11.17 Rotorcraft flown with inoperative altitude alerting equipment or assigned altitude indicator 11.18 Terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) 11.19 Flight with inoperative TAWS equipment 11.20 Airborne weather radar equipment 11.21 Flight with inoperative airborne weather radar equipment Division 7—Flight recorders 11.22 Definitions for Division 7 11.23 Flight data recorder 11.24 Cockpit voice recorder 11.25 Combination recorders 11.26 FDR, CVR and combination recorder technical requirements 11.27 Use of FDR, CVR and combination recorders 11.28 Flight with an inoperative FDR, CVR or combination recorder 11.29 Data link recorder Division 8—Rotorcraft interior communication systems 11.30 Flight crew intercommunication system 11.31 Crew interphone system 11.32 Public address system Division 9—Oxygen equipment and oxygen supplies 11.33 Definitions for Division 9 11.34 Supplemental oxygen — pressurised rotorcraft 11.35 Supplemental oxygen — unpressurised rotorcraft 11.36 Oxygen mask — pressurised rotorcraft 11.37 Oxygen dispensing units for passengers in a pressurised rotorcraft 11.38 Protective breathing equipment — flight crew members 11.39 Portable protective breathing equipment 11.40 First aid oxygen equipment — pressurised rotorcraft Division 10—Emergency locator transmitters 11.41 Carriage of ELTs 11.42 ELT — basic technical requirements 11.43 Requirements to be classed as an automatic ELT 11.44 Requirements to be classed as a survival ELT 11.45 Transitional requirements for ELTs Division 11—Portable emergency equipment 11.46 Hand-held fire extinguishers 11.47 First-aid kits Division 12—Equipment for flights over water 11.48 Sea anchors etc. and sound signals — certain rotorcraft 11.49 Life jackets and infant flotation cots 11.50 Life raft carriage requirements 11.51 Emergency flotation equipment Division 13—Surveillance equipment 11.52 Definitions for Division 13 11.53 Carriage of surveillance equipment 11.54 Operation of surveillance equipment — general requirements 11.55 Mode S transponders and ADS-B OUT — specific requirements 11.56 Alternate GNSS position source for ADS-B OUT — requirements 11.57 Alternate ADS-B OUT equipment configuration — requirements 11.58 Rotorcraft flown with inoperative surveillance equipment Division 14—Equipment for NVIS flights 11.59 Purpose 11.59A Application 11.60 Definitions 11.61 General and lighting standards for NVIS flights 11.62 Performance and other specifications for NVG image intensifier tubes 11.63 Maintenance of the NVIS and its components 11.64 Minimum equipment for NVIS flight Chapter 12 — Flight crew member training and checking Division 1—Preliminary 12.01 Definitions for Chapter 12 Division 2—Flight crew member training and checking events 12.02 Purpose of Division 2 12.03 Training and checking requirements 12.04 General emergency training 12.05 Conversion training and flight crew member proficiency check 12.06 Line training and flight crew member line check 12.07 Differences training 12.08 Recurrent training and checking 12.09 Remedial training Division 3—Individuals who conduct training and checking 12.10 Purpose of Division 3 12.11 Requirements for individual conducting training and checking 12.12 CASA may test nominated individual Division 4—Use of available approved flight simulator 12.13 Use of available approved flight simulator for training or checking etc. Division 5—Command training for pilot in command 12.14 Command training requirements Division 6—Pilot in command in non-command seat 12.15 Non-command seat proficiency check requirements Chapter 13 — Cabin crew member training and checking 13.01 Prescribed circumstances and number 13.02 Training and checking requirements 13.03 Who may conduct training and checking etc. Chapter 14 — Air crew member training and checking Division 1—Preliminary 14.01 Definitions for Chapter 14 Division 2—Air crew member training and checking events 14.02 Purpose of Division 2 14.03 Training and checking requirements 14.04 General emergency training 14.05 Conversion training and air crew member proficiency check 14.06 Line training and air crew member line check 14.07 Differences training 14.08 Recurrent training and checking 14.09 Remedial training Division 3—Individuals who conduct training and checking 14.10 Application of Division 3 14.11 Requirements for individual conducting training and checking 14.12 CASA may test nominated individual Chapter 15 — Medical transport specialist training and checking Division 1—Preliminary 15.01 Definitions for Chapter 15 Division 2—Medical transport specialist training and checking events 15.02 Purpose of Division 2 15.03 Training and checking requirements 15.04 General emergency training 15.05 Conversion training and medical transport specialist proficiency check 15.06 Line training and medical transport specialist line check 15.07 Differences training 15.08 Recurrent training and checking 15.09 Remedial training Division 3—Individuals who conduct training and checking 15.10 Application of Division 3 15.11 Requirements for individual conducting training and checking 15.12 CASA may test nominated 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