Instrument number CASA EX15/16
I, Mark alan skidmore, Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, make this instrument under regulation 11.160 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.
[Signed M. Skidmore]
Mark Skidmore AM
Director of Aviation Safety
20 January 2016
Exemption — aircraft operating without carriage of Mode S transponder equipment (Balloon Flights Over Melbourne)
1          Duration
                 This instrument:
(a)   commences on the day of registration; and
(b)   expires at the end of December 2018, as if it had been repealed by another instrument.
2          Application
                 This instrument applies to the aircraft mentioned in Schedule 1 operated by Balloon Flights Over Melbourne Pty Ltd, trading as Balloon Flights Over Melbourne and Balloon Man, Aviation Reference Number 598425 (the operator).
3          Exemption
                 The aircraft mentioned in section 2 are exempt from compliance with paragraph 9E.2 of Civil Aviation Order 20.18 in relation to the requirement to carry a serviceable ADS-B capable Mode S transponder.
4          Condition
                 A person, who is using the aircraft to which this instrument applies, must ensure that all I.F.R. flight plans for the aircraft in Australian airspace are annotated in Item 18 with “RMK/CASA MODE S EXEMPT” (quotation marks omitted).
Note   If this annotation is not included in a flight plan, the Airservices Australia automated systems will reject the plan.
Schedule 1          Aircraft
                 An aircraft of an aircraft make or model mentioned in column 1 with the registration mark in column 2 of an item in the following table:
Item
Column 1
Aircraft make or model
Column 2
Registration mark

1
Kavanagh E240-479
VH-SET

2
Kavanagh E240-422
VH-VCN