SAAA - Sports Aircraft Association of Australia - Builders of Experimental Aircraft

Recent News

Website Updated 8th October 2011

SAAA National Convention 2011

The inaugural Narromine SAAA Annual Convention was a great success.

Check out the details.

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SAAA initiative achieves results!

The news we have all been waiting for!

RPL (LAPL)? Not Yet....But read on-

Continue to fly your prideand joy when your Class 2 medical expires.

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Langley Park Fly-In

Perth's Famous Langley Park

Check out the Final report and pictures

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Instrument number CASA 146/11.

The lastest version of Appointment of persons to issue maintenance releases is available here. Experimental aircraft CASA maintenance instrument 58/11 became invalid as of 27th June 2011. New instrument 146/11 is active as of now until 28th February 2013.

ATSB reportable matters.

The Sport Aviation office CASA has been advised by CASA Legal Services and ATSB that incidents and accidents involving sport aviation aircraft are to be reported to ATSB.
That is, that the Transport Safety Investigation Regulations are referable to any aircraft not just Australian aircraft (i.e. VH registered).
For your clarification as to what is an accident, incident and reportable matters please refer to the ATSB page via the link below:
http://www.atsb.gov.au/mandatory/asair.aspx

Try our new Forum

A forum has been setup to enable members to be able to communicate to other members, topics that are of interest and relevant to aviation and safety.

The forum is only open for members and access is at http://www.saaa.com/forum. To post to the forum you will need to log in. The username and password are the same as your log in used for the saaa web site.

It should be pointed out that the views expressed in the forum topics are those of the poster and not necessarily that of the SAAA or of the National Council.

If you have any comments about the forum please contact the webmaster.

SAAA at Avalon 2011.

The SAAA was well represented at Avalon 2011 with a variety of aircraft on display as well as a spacious marquee and willing volunteers. The weather this year was an improvement over the last Avalon with bright sunny days on the main public days of Saturday and Sunday.

Our last few attendances at Avalon had not been overly successful in terms of visitors due in part to the general layout of the Sports Aviation Section at the Airshow. This year however Airshows Downunder changed the layout, including the closure of Taxiway Charlie to aircraft. This has the effect of allowing direct access from the main entry pathway so visitors could walk directly into the Sports Aviation part of the Airshow. Airshows DownUnder are to be congratulated for this change as it certainly did improve access and visitor numbers.

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SAAA Handbook Released.

The SAAA Handbook outlines the structure of the SAAA, how the SAAA functions, the role of the Executive and National Council together with the aims and objectives of the organisation.

It details what we provide to our members as well as the benefits of membership of the SAAA.

You can download a copy from here.

Maintenance Procedures Course

Background;
The authority to maintain our own aircraft is a valued privilege for amateur builders, but it carries important legal responsibilities. Having built an aircraft, in some cases many years ago, does not ensure that the holder of the maintenance authority is up to the job today.
The SAAA Maintenance Procedures Course is approved by CASA to enable all who hold maintenance authority for their amateur built experimental aircraft, the required knowledge and current obligations to meet their responsibilities associated with the authority.

Many of our older members built aircraft under the Amateur Built Aircraft Acceptance system (ABAA) which did not give them any maintenance capability. The SOAG group in Queensland, who until recently operate ABAA built aircraft, approached CASA some years ago to obtain maintenance capability similar to that for experimental amateur built (EAB) aircraft. CASA agreed with the concept provided they completed a course designed to meet the requirements of the CASA Basic Airworthiness Administration Syllabus plus demonstrating practical maintenance competence.
This course has been given freely to SAAA by SOAG. This provides great value to SAAA members, not only in helping our ABAA member builders to obtain maintenance authority, but also to educate all EAB builders and owners. Builders of EAB category aircraft must convince the Authorised Person (AP) who issues their CoA that they are capable of ‘continuous maintenance’ of their aircraft. Experience since the introduction of the EAB category has shown that many may be less than competent for this task. With the MPC now available, new CoA applicants as well as existing maintainers, can demonstrate their competency by successful completion of this course and the final exam and obtaining the course certificate.
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Members EMail Address Update

Do we have your correct email address?
From time to time we send information to members via email. This enables us to contact you quickly with up-to-date information for you to provide a convenient reply if necessary.Not all members have provided an email address, and many we have are no longer current.
If you have not received an email from us in the last week of October we probably don't have your correct email.
Simply email your name and updated contact details to: membership@saaa.com or click on the 'Update Your Details' in the Members Section of the web site.
If you don't have an email address or a relative who could receive emails for you, contact Head Office and we will arrange for any important information to be posted directly to you.
Log in as member; click on the update details prompt. This will take you to a separate, secure log in prompt that will then allow you to update your email address and other important information for our database.

Log In/Forgotten Password:

In the top right hand corner of this home page is the box to login to the members' only section. Please follow the prompts. If you still have difficulty or get no response please go to the bottom of this page and click on webmaster prompt and email the details to the webmaster.

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