HEAD OF OPERATIONS ACHIEVERS

Written by Jarod Rowe

With the upcoming holiday break, I’d firstly like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year for you and your families.

Some of you may be taking up the opportunity to take up some Christmas flying with your loved ones and maybe even a long trip or overnight trip planned, with that it’s a good point to recap some of the changes in the last twelve months that has occurred.

Air law wise, we’re now a year into the Part 91/135/138 regs and while the latter two won’t concern private flying it’s worth making sure you know the changes for part 91. For those of you who aren’t aware Google “CASA part 91 plain English guide” version 2.0 is out and will give you a crash course on changes, whilst there might as well grab another drink and Google “CASA VFRG” the visual flight rules guide is now up to version 7.0 and worth a recap if you haven’t seen one for a while. Both publications are available digitally via PDF so you can read them on your tablet or phone if you wish.

Air space wise, the south west has seen some huge changes with not only Bunbury/Busselton/Caple sharing the same CTAF frequency (127.0) but now the South-West Cape has its own broadcast area from surface to 5500ft on 132.25. If you’re not familiar with any of what I’ve just mentioned then now is the time to do some reading so you don’t get caught out.

Apart from that, I hope you have had the chance to get in some fair weather flying, I’m sure it won’t be long until we’re all complaining it’s 40+ and too hot for us to then be able to fly! In the meantime, enjoy your flying.

Congratulations to all of our achievers for the months of October and November. We are very proud to see so many people reaching new heights in their flight training with us.