Recommendation Date
Recipient Name
CAA
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Reconsider the issues involved with regard to the appropriate restraint of airborne deer shooters, with a view to ensuring that the equipment used for their restraint incorporates safety features guarding against inadvertent release.
Reply Text
I have adopted Safety Recommendation 005/96 to the extent that I have reconsidered the issues involved in regard to the appropriate restraint of airborne deer-shooters. Although your recommendation is not explicit on the point, it appears from your draft report that you envisage the CAA developing and publishing a detailed standard for such restraints.
Having considered the issues, my view remains that the industry should develop and adopt their own standard for shooter restraint, without the need for mandatory compliance with a detailed standard published by the CAA. This might be ensured by amending CAR Part 91 to provide an outcome-oriented rule that simply requires (for example) passenger restraints which preclude inadvertent release in any aircraft operating with a door removed. I will therefore treat your recommendation as a petition to amend CAR Part 91.
I also see some value in the CAA publishing some warnings and guidance on the matter via an article in our regular flight safety material. This I will arrange.
Having considered the issues, my view remains that the industry should develop and adopt their own standard for shooter restraint, without the need for mandatory compliance with a detailed standard published by the CAA. This might be ensured by amending CAR Part 91 to provide an outcome-oriented rule that simply requires (for example) passenger restraints which preclude inadvertent release in any aircraft operating with a door removed. I will therefore treat your recommendation as a petition to amend CAR Part 91.
I also see some value in the CAA publishing some warnings and guidance on the matter via an article in our regular flight safety material. This I will arrange.
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