OC application
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 9:31 am
Hey Team,
I'm currently looking into the application for an Operators certificate and I'm after a bit of guidance getting started.
I have a controllers certificate for multirotors between 7 and 20kgs. We have an S900, S1000 and a phantom 3. At this stage, we intend on exclusively doing real estate photography/videography and possibly the occasional event. I fly heli's for a living (as I suspect some of you also do), so I have some experience in dealings with CASA. However, upon looking into this application I've found that the information provided is quite vague. As I understand it, we need to produce an operations manual that outlines our proposed operations, a maintenance manual and a flight manual for the craft/s that we wish to use.
I've emailed the UAV department at casa several times requesting an 'info pack' with only the automated response that I'm very familiar with - "CASA are experiencing a high volume of ..yada, yada, yada.. "
These are my questions and any information will be greatly appreciated.
1. Where should I start?
2. Would it be easier, harder or the same for us to propose only flying the little phantom to start with and then append the larger machines to our OC down the track?
3. Do the documents need to be produced with the same level of detail as we see in general aviation?
4. Does CASA or any third party produce templates for the documents?
Thanks guys
I'm currently looking into the application for an Operators certificate and I'm after a bit of guidance getting started.
I have a controllers certificate for multirotors between 7 and 20kgs. We have an S900, S1000 and a phantom 3. At this stage, we intend on exclusively doing real estate photography/videography and possibly the occasional event. I fly heli's for a living (as I suspect some of you also do), so I have some experience in dealings with CASA. However, upon looking into this application I've found that the information provided is quite vague. As I understand it, we need to produce an operations manual that outlines our proposed operations, a maintenance manual and a flight manual for the craft/s that we wish to use.
I've emailed the UAV department at casa several times requesting an 'info pack' with only the automated response that I'm very familiar with - "CASA are experiencing a high volume of ..yada, yada, yada.. "
These are my questions and any information will be greatly appreciated.
1. Where should I start?
2. Would it be easier, harder or the same for us to propose only flying the little phantom to start with and then append the larger machines to our OC down the track?
3. Do the documents need to be produced with the same level of detail as we see in general aviation?
4. Does CASA or any third party produce templates for the documents?
Thanks guys