The Air Navigation (Fourth Amendment) Order 1988

• (i) certificated in the transport category or for which an application for such certification has been made and for which an individual certificate of airworthiness was first granted on or after 1st June 1990; or

• (ii) certificated in the aerial work or private category and for which an individual certificate of airworthiness was first issued on or after 1st June 1990

must, when flying on any flight, be equipped with a 32 parameter flight data recorder capable of recording specified data and a cockpit voice recorder (article 2(46) and (59)).

• (23) Aeroplanes powered by one or more turbine jets and first issued with a certificate of airworthiness on or after 1st April 1989 must, on any flight on or after 1st April 1989, be equipped with an altitude alerting system.

Aeroplanes powered by one or more turbine jets and first issued with a certificate of airworthiness prior to 1st April 1989 must, on any flight on or after 1st April 1990, be equipped with an altitude alerting system.

Aeroplanes of more than 5,700 kg powered by one or more turbine propeller engines and first issued with a certificate of airworthiness on or after 1st April 1989 must, on any flight on or after 1st April 1989, be equipped with an altitude alerting system (article 2(48) and (55)).

• (24) Aeroplanes which conform to a type first issued with a type certificate on or after 1st April 1978 and with a certificate of airworthiness in the Transport Category (Passenger) and which are capable of carrying more than 19 passengers must, on all flights for the purpose of the public transport of passengers on or after 1st April 1991, be equipped with a public address system and an interphone system of communication between members of the flight crew and the cabin attendants.

Aeroplanes which conform to a type first issued with a type certificate between 1st April 1968 and 31st March 1978 (inclusive) and with a certificate of airworthiness in the Transport Category (Passenger) and which are capable of carrying more than 19 passengers must, on all flights for the purpose of the public transport of passengers on or after 1st April 1992, be equipped with a public address system and an interphone system of comunication between members of the flight crew and the cabin attendants.

Aeroplanes which conform to a type first issued with a type certificate before 1st April 1968 and with a certificate of airworthiness in the Transport Category (Passenger) and which are capable of carrying more than 19 passengers must, on all flights for the purpose of the public transport of passengers on or after 1st April 1993, carry a public address system and an interphone system of communication between members of the flight crew and the cabin attendants (article 2(49) and (60)).

• (25) The holder of a Basic Commercial Pilot’s Licence (Aeroplanes) which licence includes a flying instructor’s rating or an assistant flying instructor’s rating may now only carry out instructional flights or conduct flying tests which consist of aerial work and receive remuneration for such flights when he does not have the specific type of aircraft endorsed in Part I of the aircraft rating in the licence subject to certain conditions. The conditions are; first that the type is specified in the instructor’s rating; secondly that he is entitled to fly the aircraft pursuant to his private privileges and thirdly that the instruction in flying is carried out under the auspices of a club of which both the instructor and trainee are members. The holder of a Commercial Pilot’s Licence (Aeroplanes) now has similar privileges (article 2(61) and (62)).

• (26) The holder of a Private Pilot’s Licence (Balloons and Airships) may not exercise the privileges of his licence unless he has within the preceding thirteen months carried out as pilot in command five free flights each of not less than five minutes duration (article 2(63)).

• (27) The maximum period of validity of the Commercial Pilot’s Licence (Balloons) is extended to ten years. The maximum period of validity of the Commercial Pilot’s Licence (Gliders) is extended to ten years (article 2(64) and (66)).

• (28) The holder of a Commercial Pilot’s Licence (Balloons) may not act as pilot in command on a flight for the purpose of public transport of passengers unless he has within the preceding ninety days carried out three free flights each of not less than five minutes duration (article 2(65)).

• (29) An operations manual must include information and instructions relating to the transport of dangerous goods, whether carried within or suspended beneath an aircraft and the action to be taken in the event of emergencies arising involving dangerous goods (article 2(70)).

• (30) On any international flight, an aeroplane must carry a copy of the procedures to be followed and the visual signals to be used when an aircraft is intercepted (article 2(73), (74), (75) and (76)).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1982 c. 16.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1985/1643, amended by S.I. 1986/2238, 1987/2062 and 1988/251.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1987/2062.