ATOM News

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The ATOM provides guidance to all Approved Testing Officers (ATOs) on the conduct of flight tests and the administration of delegations for flight testing. The ATOM is a web based manual. This means that once it is printed it becomes an uncontrolled document, if the manual is printed the user should ensure that they are referring to the latest version by checking the version number on their printed copy against the version on the web site. When the manual is printed, the version number and published date (the date of last amendment) is printed at the foot of each page. The ATOM News will identify the current version number, publish date and identify where amendments have been made.

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February 19, 2010

The Approved Testing Officer Manual has been amended as follows:

• New Section 19 - CAR 217 Delegate & Approved Person Administration and Conduct of CAR 217 Tests & Checks
  Note: This version of Section 19 applies only to delegates and approved persons who are operating within a High Capacity Regular Public Transport organisation. Subsequent amendments to this section will incorporate guidance and policy for all CAR 217 delegates and approved persons.

The current version of the ATOM is Version 1.2

January 14, 2009

The Approved Testing Officer Manual has been amended as follows:

• Grammatical, spelling and linking corrections throughout the manual.
• Delegate Instructions amended to reflect changes appearing in Instrument CASA 684/08 (which replaced CASA 417/08) issued to all general aviation ATOs.
The sections affected are - Sections 3.3; 4.2; 5.2; 6.2; 9.2; 10.2; 11.3; 12.3; 13.3 and 14.3.
• Section 11.4.3 - Ground Component - Flight test brief and paperwork
Amended with the addition of a sentence to remind ATOs that applicants for a flight instructor (aeroplane) rating grade 3 must hold a night VFR rating or a command instrument rating.
• Section 14.2 - General Guidance
Amended with the addition of a paragraph stating that applicants applying for renewal of their flight instructor rating who have had the single engine limitation on their rating previously lifted, should undertake the flight test for renewal of the rating in a multi-engine aircraft on at least every second renewal.

The current version of the Manual is Version 1.1.

October 2008

The initial version of the Manual is Version 1.0.