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Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009)

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Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011

Part 135 : Air Transport Operations - Carriage of less than 20 passengers or cargo

Subpart 5 : Aeroplane Instruments and Equipment

135.05.2 Flight, navigation and associated equipment for aeroplanes operated under VFR

 

(1) An air service operator shall not operate the aeroplane in accordance with VFR, unless such aeroplane is equipped with—
(a) a magnetic compass;
(b) an accurate time-piece showing the time in hours, minutes and seconds;
(c) a sensitive pressure altimeter with a subscale setting, calibrated in hectopascals, adjustable for any barometric pressure setting likely to be encountered during flight;
(d) an airspeed indicator system with heated pitot tube or equivalent means for preventing malfunctioning due to either condensation or icing;
(e) a vertical-speed indicator;
(f) a turn-and-slip indicator or a turn coordinator, incorporating a slip indicator;
(g) an attitude indicator;

[Regulation 135.05.2(1)(g) substituted by regulation 17(b) of Notice No. R. 1349, GG 40376, dated 28 October 2016 (Fourteenth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2016)]

(h) a stabilised direction indicator; and
(i) a means of indicating on the flight deck the outside air temperature in degrees Celsius.

 

(2) For aeroplanes required by these Regulations or the type certificate of the aeroplane to be operated by two pilots, the second pilot's station shall be equipped with—
(a) a sensitive pressure altimeter with a subscale setting calibrated in hectopascals, adjustable for any barometric pressure setting likely to be encountered during flight;
(b) an airspeed indicator system with heated pitot tube or equivalent means for preventing malfunctioning due to either condensation or icing;
(c) a vertical-speed indicator;
(d) a turn-and-slip indicator or a turn coordinator, incorporating a slip indicator;
(e) an attitude indicator; and

[Regulation 135.05.2(2)(e) substituted by regulation 17(c) of Notice No. R. 1349, GG 40376, dated 28 October 2016 (Fourteenth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2016)]

(f) a stabilised direction indicator.

 

(3) For flights, the duration of which does not exceed 60 minutes, which commence and end at the same aerodrome, and which remain within 25 nautical miles of such aerodrome, the instruments specified in subregulation (1)(f), (g) and (h), and subregulation (2)(d), (e) and (f), may be replaced by a turn-and-slip indicator, or a turn coordinator incorporating a slip indicator, or both an attitude indicator and a slip indicator.

[Regulation 135.05.2(3) substituted by regulation 17(d) of Notice No. R. 1349, GG 40376, dated 28 October 2016 (Fourteenth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2016)]