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CIVIL AVIATION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1998 No. 32 - REG 4

4. Regulation 5.74 (May an instructor permit a student to carry out activities for which a rating is required?)
4.1 Omit "An", substitute "Subject to subregulation (2), an".

4.2 Add at the end:

"(2) An authorised flight instructor may permit a student pilot to fly an
aircraft as pilot in command at night under the V.F.R. in a traffic pattern,
if:

   (a)  the student conducts the flight under the direct supervision of an
        authorised flight instructor; and

   (b)  weather conditions in the traffic pattern are such that the flight can
        be conducted as a V.F.R. flight; and

   (c)  an authorised flight instructor has made an entry in the student's
        personal log book to the effect that the student has satisfied the
        night V.F.R. handling requirements in an aircraft of the same category
        as the aircraft used for the flight; and

   (d)  the student meets the recent experience requirements set out in
        subregulation (3) for the flight; and

   (e)  there are no passengers in the aircraft.

"(3) For paragraph (2) (d), the student pilot meets the recent experience
requirements for the flight if:

   (a)  in the case of a student who has not passed the general flying
        progress flight test for the category of aircraft used for the
        flight-the student has, within 30 days before the day of the flight,
        carried out:

        (i)    at least 3 take-offs and 3 landings at night while flying under
               the V.F.R. as pilot in command of an aircraft of that category;
               or

        (ii)   at least 1 take-off and 1 landing at night while dual flying
               under the V.F.R. in an aircraft of that category; or

   (b)  in the case of a student who has passed the general flying progress
        flight test for the category of aircraft used for the flight-the
        student has, within 90 days before the day of the flight, carried out:

        (i)    at least 3 take-offs and 3 landings at night while flying under
               the V.F.R. as pilot in command of an aircraft of that category;
               or

        (ii)   at least 1 take-off and 1 landing at night while dual flying
               under the V.F.R. in an aircraft of that category.". 


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