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Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009)

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Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011

Part 60 : Flight Simulator Training Devices

Subpart 1 : General

60.01.8 FSTD user certificate approvals

 

(1) A person intending to be a user of a qualified FSTD shall apply to the Director, in writing, for an FSTD user certificate.

 

(2) The Director shall take the following into consideration before issuing an FSTD user  certificate—
(a) a difference between the characteristics of an FSTD and the characteristics of a specific type or a specific make , model and series of an aircraft.
(b) whether or not a user operates such an aircraft;
(c) a proposed user's operating and training competencies; and
(d) the validity and scope of a proposed user's ATO certificate.

 

(3) The Director may, in addition, consider any other matter that affects the manner  in which an FSTD operates or is used.

 

(4) An FSTD user certificate issued in terms of subregulation (2)—
(a) shall  be issued  in an  appropriate form  published  on the  website  of  the Authority;
(b) may be issued subj ect to any condition specified therein; and
(c) may be granted in terms of the Director FSTD Training or Testing credits  as contained in Document SA-CATS  60.

 

(5) An FSD user certificate shall be effective from the date of issue and be valid until an applicable FSTD qualification ceases  to  be in force in terms of regulation 60.01.6.

 

(6) The Director may, by a written notice, vary, suspend, or cancel an FSD user certificate if the Director is of the opinion that compliance the provisions of subregulations (2) and (3) have changed.

 

[Regulation 60.01.8 substituted by regulation 10 of Notice No. R.1503, GG45491, dated 16 November 2021 (Twenty-First Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2021)]