Aviation Personnel Standards: Urgent Notices

Withdrawal of AIC 30-8 dated 29 July 2010 :

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DFE/DE Endorsements on Licences:

Please note that the licences of DFEs and Cabin Crew DEs will no longer have the DFE or DE status endorsement placed in them and the only official lists of current DFEs and Cabin Crew DEs are those to be found on this website under Aviation Personnel Standards, Flight Examiners and Cabin Safety Examiners

DFE II Designation

Please note that because of discrepancies between regulations 61.36.3 and 61.36.8 no further DFE II designations will be issued until further notice. Existing DFE IIs are authorized to continue exercising their privileges provided that the requirements set by regulations 61.36.3(2) and (3) are complied with.

Printing error in Aviation Legislation in South Africa

Please note that in issue 24 of Aviation Legislation in South Africa the following sentence in regulation 61.03.1(2) has been erroneously deleted:  ‘An applicant for a Private Pilot Licence (Aeroplane) must have completed not less than 45 hours flight time as pilot of an aeroplane with a maximum certificated mass in excess of 450 kg of which –...'.  This is an error and the requirements stipulated in the sentence are still in force.

Logbook summaries and copies

All pilots are reminded that:

1. CAR 61.01.5(10) requires, at least annually, a certified copy of a summary of his or her logbook for the preceding 12 months
2. CAR 61.03.6(c), 61.04.6(c), 61.05.6(c), 61.06.6(c), 61.07.6(c) and 61.08.6(c) each require certified (by a Commissioner of Oaths) copies of the last 3 pages of his or her logbook and all endorsements with the annual revalidation fee
3. CAR 61.01.8(1) requires that electronic logbooks must be printed out on paper at least every 90 days and the printed pages filed sequentially in a binder.”