Conditions for practice flights

(1) With reference to Article 21(5) of the Order, a person who is not the holder of a pilot’s licence to fly flying machines or public transport or aerial work gliders may fly within Belize as pilot in charge of a flying machine or a public transport or aerial work glider, as the case may be, for the purpose of becoming qualified for the grant or renewal of such a licence, subject to the conditions specified in subregulations (2) and (3) respectively of this regulation. (2) In respect of Flying Machines, the person pursuant to subregulation (1)– (a) shall, if required to do so by Article 25 of the Order, be the holder of a student pilot’s licence granted under the Order; (b) must be not less than seventeen years of age; (c) shall not carry in the flying machine, any other person, except a person required under the Order or these Regulations to be carried as a member of the operating crew; and (d) shall carry out each flight in accordance with instructions given by a person entitled by Civil Aviation 115 virtue of a rating included in his pilot’s licence to give instruction in flying machines and shall terminate at the aerodrome of departure. Intermediate practice landings may, however, in accordance with such instructions, be made elsewhere than at the aerodrome of departure. (3) In respect of Public Transport or Aerial Work Gliders, the person pursuant to subregulation (1)– (a) must be not less than sixteen years of age; (b) shall not carry in the glider any other person, except a person required under the Order or these Regulations to be carried as a member of the operating crew; (c) in the case of a glider of which the maximum total weight authorised exceeds 1,250 lbs. which in the course of flight is towed by a flying machine and released therefrom, shall carry out each flight in accordance with instructions given by a person entitled, by virtue of a rating included in his pilot’s licence, to give instructions in flying gliders towed by flying machines, and shall terminate either at the aerodrome of departure, or, with the consent of such person, at a place within three nautical miles therefrom.