Aviation maintenance organizations and other segments of the aviation community have told the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) that the agency should adopt “a simpler, more understandable set of rules” for general aviation maintenance, CASA says.
Of the 89 respondents to CASA’s request for feedback on general aviation maintenance regulations, 78 percent endorsed the adoption of rules resembling those now in place in the United States. Eleven percent said they preferred New Zealand regulations, which CASA characterized as “broadly based on the American approach.” None of the 89 respondents said CASA should retain its existing regulations.
CASA said that a technical working group reviewed the comm…
