Flight Guides

CASA’s plain English guide for fatigue management makes it easy to meet your obligations under Civil Aviation Order 48.1 Instrument 2019 and Subpart 137.Q of Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

This guide contains information about each appendix, with helpful hints explaining what’s expected of pilots and operators, and what might need to be considered when complying with the fatigue management rules.

Operators may choose to operate to the appendix (or in some cases the appendices) which is/are most appropriate for their operation. Prescriptive appendices range from those intended for simple operations to those intended for highly complex multi-crew operations where acclimatisation and crew augmentation are factors to be considered. A performance based FRMS appendix is also provided for those operators that wish to manage crew fatigue outside prescriptive limits.

The prescriptive appendices also address quite specific types of operation such as flight training, aerial work, medical transport and emergency services, ballooning, and aerial application (aeroplane).

Who will benefit from this guide

Pilots and operators will benefit from a shared understanding of the rules. By providing information in a simple easy to read form, CASA aims to facilitate this common understanding.

CASA have developed this plain English guide to help you understand the Part 133 regulations that apply to the operation of a rotorcraft for an Australian air transport operation.

The guide sets out the regulatory requirements in a concise, clear, easy-to-read, and practical format for:

• Part 133 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASR)
• Part 133 Manual of Standards (MOS)
• Part 119 of CASR (as applicable).

It contains exemptions, relevant guidance and advisory material.

Who the guide is for

The guide is for anyone involved in rotorcraft air transport operations including:

• operators who hold or wish to obtain an Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC)
• key personnel in these organisations
• flight crew
• cabin crew
• air crew
• medical transport specialists.

CASA have developed this plain English guide to help you understand the Part 61 regulations that apply to flight crew licensing for aeroplane category pilots, flight training providers and aerial work and air transport operators.

See also CASR Part 61 Guide for helicopter category flight crew licensing.

The guide sets out the regulatory requirements in a concise, clear, easy-to-read, and practical format for:

• Part 61 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASR)
• Part 61 MOS.

It contains exemptions, relevant guidance material and advisory documents.

Who the guide is for

We have designed this guide for:

• aeroplane category pilots
• flight training providers
• aerial work operators
• air transport operators.

CASA have developed this plain English guide to help you understand the Part 61 regulations that apply to flight crew licensing for helicopter category pilots, flight training providers and aerial work and air transport operators.

See also CASR Part 61 Guide for aeroplane category flight crew licensing.

The guide sets out the regulatory requirements in a concise, clear, easy-to-read, and practical format for:

• Part 61 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations (CASR)
• Part 61 MOS.

It contains exemptions, relevant guidance material and advisory documents.

Who the guide is for

We have designed this guide for:

• helicopter category pilots
• flight training providers
• aerial work operators
• air transport operators.

The CASA Plain English Guide makes it as easy as possible to understand the new general operating and flight regulations for all pilots.

The guide sets out the regulatory requirements in a concise, clear easy to read and practical format for both:

• Part 91 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations
• the associated Manual of Standards.

It contains:

• all the general operating and flight rules, incorporating any changes we have made in exemption instruments
• helpful hints explaining what’s expected of you
• things to consider when complying with the rules
• an index and other features to help find what you need.

Visual Flight Rules Guide

The popular VFRG—THE guide for VFR pilots now fully revised in an easy-to-understand format. Presented in an accessible A5-size ring-bound folder.

The VFRG is divided into five main sections, plus an index:

• General—the rules, licensing, pilot responsibilities, radio procedures
• Pre-flight planning—meteorology, briefing, notification, information services
• Operations—communications, non-controlled aerodromes, controlled   airspace sport aviation, helicopter operations
• Helicopter operations
• Emergency procedures
• Index

Instrument Flight Guide 2026

The IFG is the instrument pilot’s version of the VFG.
A useful, and easily accessible collection of useful operational information.
It is published annually but updated whenever significant changes occur.
It is a compact and valuable aide-memoire of calls and procedures for whenever you are out-of-practice or when your renewal is due.

Size: A5
Binding: Ring bound

Visual Flight Guide 2026

Designed as a cockpit companion to the ERSA, the VFG is a comprehensive pocket-book that contains a wealth of useful information for planning and conducting a safe VFR flight. It is tabbed and very user-friendly and is designed to be attached to your clip-board or knee-pad. Although it is an annual edition, it is updated regularly throughout the year. Also a good summary guide to read the night before a flight.

The PPL/CPL manuals provide a complete set of reference texts for all examination subjects. They are prepared in accordance with the CASA Syllabus for both levels of licence and are the perfect preparation for the composite PPL and the single subject CPL cyber exams. They are true to the depth of knowledge requirements of the syllabus and do not attempt to be an easy passage.

Size: A5
Binding: Ring bound