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Good day SAHPA members
On receiving this media release (copy below) it looks very promising for us to fly however does not take away the actual threat of COVID and it most certainly should not be reason for a free for all.
There are many still considering the judgement and there is still leave to appeal.
What does this mean to Sahpa members that only wish to fly?
At present this judgement will have a ripple effect in the next few days. Until then in terms of aviation we have the following Notam (latest copy below) against which we are expected to adhere to. As of 07h46 2july 2020
Note1: Compliance to validate our insurances and operations to all applicable Notams in aviation is required.
Note2: A Notam can be retracted or amended at any time so please keep an eye on the SACAA website for any amendments (this Notam has been amended multiple times) .
The Notam included below allows for sport aviation under 7
Extract from Notam:
7) LTD SPORT FLYING PERMITTED PROVIDED THAT OPS IS FM SINGLE AD WITH
LTD GROUP SIZE PARTICIPATION.
We have no guidance on group size from any of the authorities, however all FAI and disciplines underneath SRSA which SAHPA’s disciplines fall seem open.
Please also note there has been no gazette yet from the DOT’s minister of transport validating this Notam
SAHPA is therefore moving forward on this cautiously and advocates compliance with the Notam.
Covid Hygiene and Sanitary requirements inclusive of social distancing is still required and in place along with our SAHPA system’s and requirements until further notice.
So it looks like we can fly within the limitations of this notam which restricts us to Sahpa sites.
With regard to TFI flights Sahpa is developing Covid protocols followed by a TFI subcommittee meeting to approve flying. We will advise as we get further information.
COPY OF LFN PRESS RELEASE
Date: 1 July 2020
ATTENTION: ALL MEDIA HOUSES
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE CIRCULATION
LIBERTY FIGHTERS OVERJOYED WITH LOCKDOWN VICTORY FOR THE PEOPLE!: ‘Let us make a toast with a (legal) smoke...”
In a Court judgment which speaks of pure genius, Justice Norman Davis, effectively brought an end to the hard Lockdown which plagued the people of South Africa the past 3 months seeing a futile ever increasing number of COVID-19 cases at a constant 0.1% daily rate since mid-May.
The High Court Gauteng Division Pretoria has ordered yesterday 30 June 2020 that the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, may for what it is still worth, appeal her Disaster Management Regulations to the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, but not those regulations which clearly violated basic human rights of all our people and gave her 10 days to formally get rid of it. However, this period is only academic and does not overrule the declaration of invalidity.
Liberty Fighters Network (LFN) and its President Reyno De Beer were overjoyed when they received the order of the High Court Gauteng Division Pretoria in the Application for Leave to Appeal late yesterday afternoon wherein Davis J ordered that above others the restrictions on all businesses, religious and other gatherings, exercises, walking on the beach and the public parks, freedom of movement must stand as obvious constitutional violations, no doubt.
In a surprise move, Justice Davis, also excluded Regulation 48(2) from the appeal, which forms the heart of the Government’s stronghold over us as the people during the Lockdown by having decriminalised the violation of the Lockdown Regulations in respect of the holding of funerals (Regulation 35), initiations (Regulation 38), access to all events (Regulation 39), on premises liquor consumption (Regulation 44), and the sale of tobacco (Regulation 45).
Yes, we belief that although the sale of tobacco is still technically prohibited in terms of Regulation 45, the Court has brilliantly now also ordered that the sale of tobacco does not carry criminal prosecution anymore and leaving Government with the only way of enforcement, following a civil process. The Police and other law enforcers may legally not enforce the unlawful sale of tobacco anymore.
The further, and for the majority the most important, wearing of masks is obligatory (Regulations 5 and 33) but not something which could lead to your arrest and criminal prosecution (ito Regulations 14 and 48) anymore. LFN is advocating anyone who so wishes, may now legally remove their masks and may not be arrested or criminally prosecuted for doing it.
The declaration of invalidity has already declared those regulations excluded from the appeal to be invalid and of no effect and the measures in terms of Level 3 are merely academic in nature.
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Media Queries:
Reyno De Beer, President: Liberty Fighters Network, Cell. 0781745878 /
NOTAM
A2040/20 NOTAMN
Q) FAXX/QXXXX/IV/NBO/E/000/999/5152S01651E999
A) FAJA FACA FAJO B) 2006302004 C) 2007311800 EST
E) COVID-19:
1)THE FLW GEN AVIATION FLT ARE PERMITTED INCL MAINT RELATED FLT AS
O0100157 - 01JUL20 0600 ATNS 4/65
PER APPLICABLE REGULATIONS:
A)AGRICULTURAL SPRAYING, SEEDING AND DUSTING.
B)CLOUD SPRAYING, SEEDING AND DUSTING.
C)CULLING.
D)CONST RELATING TO AVIATION.
E)AERIAL HARVESTING.
F)AERIAL PATROL, OBS AND SURVEY.
G)SEARCH AND RESCUE.
H)AERIAL RECORDING BY PHOTOGRAPHIC OR ELECTRONIC MEANS.
I)FIRE SPOTTING, CTL AND FIGHTING
J)SPRAYING, SEEDING OR DUSTING OTHER THAN FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES
AND CLOUDS.
K)ESSENTIAL SER FLT.
2)AVIATION TRG OPS PERMITTED AS PER PART 141 OPR SPECIFICATIONS.
A)NO FULL STOP LDG PERMITTED AT AD OTHER THAN INITIAL POINT OF DEP.
3)SKILLS TESTS ARE ALLOWED, PROVIDED THAT THE EXAMINER OR INSTRUCTOR
IS AUTH BY THE SACAA TO CONDUCT A FLT TEST DRG LOCKDOWN.
4)ALL ABOVE OPS TO SUBMIT COVID-19 PROC TO SACAA FOR APPROVAL PRIOR
TO OPS.
A)COVID-19 SIGNED PROC CHECKLIST FOR AVIATION TRG ORGANISATION OPS
TO BE SUBMITTED TO PERSONNEL LICENCING EMAIL: PEL.TRAINING(AT)CAA
B)COVID-19 SIGNED PROC CHECKLIST FOR GEN AVIATION OPS TO BE SUBMITTED
TO LAUBSCHERP(AT)CAA.CO.ZA.
C)AERIAL WORK AOC OPS TO SUBMIT COVID-19 PROC TO SACAA FOR APPROVAL
PRIOR TO OPS TO THABEDEN(AT)CAA.CO.ZA.
5)ALL FLIGHTS LISTED ABV TO ENSURE A COPY OF THE NOTAM, ALONG WITH
ASSOCIATED DOCUMENTATION TO BE CARRIED ABOARD THE ACFT.
6)RECREATIONAL AVIATION OPS ARE PROHIBITED, EXC FOR MAINT RELATED
FLT. PRIOR APRROVAL REQUIRED FM SACAA.
7)LTD SPORT FLYING PERMITTED PROVIDED THAT OPS IS FM SINGLE AD WITH
LTD GROUP SIZE PARTICIPATION.
8)RDO CONTROL MODEL ACFT OPS PERMITTED WITH LTD GROUPS SIZE
PARTICIPATION.
9)PARACHUTE JUMPS PERMITTED.
10)PART 148 POST PRODUCTION TEST FLIGHTS PERMITTED
Notice: Please check www.sahpa.co.za regularly for any information regarding aviation during Covid-19 lockdown.
Kind regards / Groete
LOUISE LIVERSEDGE
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