CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 61.480 Grant of recreational pilot licences in recognition of pilot certificates granted by certain organisations

CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 61.480

  (1)   This regulation applies to an applicant for a recreational pilot licence if:

  (a)   the applicant holds a pilot certificate, granted by a sport aviation body that administers activities involving aircraft of a particular category; and

  (b)   the certificate permits the holder to act as the pilot in command of an aircraft of that category.

  (2)   For subregulation   61.475(2), the applicant is taken to have passed:

  (a)   the aeronautical knowledge examination; and

  (b)   the flight test;

for the licence and the associated aircraft category rating.

  (3)   The applicant is also taken to have met the requirements for the grant of:

  (a)   the aircraft category rating for each category of aircraft in which the person is permitted by the certificate to act as pilot in command; and

  (b)   the aircraft class rating for each class of aircraft in which the person is permitted by the certificate to act as pilot in command; and

  (c)   the design feature endorsement for each design feature of an aircraft in which the applicant is permitted by the certificate to act as pilot in command.

Note:   The holder of an aircraft class rating must successfully complete a flight review for the rating to be authorised to exercise the privileges of the rating, and is not taken to have met the flight review requirement on the basis of being taken to have met the requirements for the grant of the rating under subregulation   (3): see subregulation   61.745(4).