Public transport aircraft: Certificate of serviceability

(1) The provisions of this regulation shall apply to flights by public transport aircraft other than training aircraft in circumstances in which the carriage of radio equipment is prescribed by regulation 6. (2) Except as provided by paragraph (6) of this regulation, no such flight shall be commenced unless the aircraft station is fully serviceable and has been examined and found to have been maintained in accordance with the maintenance schedule prescribed in paragraph (2) of regulation 9 and a certificate of serviceability in the following form, or in such other form as may be approved by the Governor as suitable for the purpose, is in force Aircraft Radio Station Certificate of Serviceability Aircraft Type .......................................... Registration Marks ................................. I hereby certify that, with the exception of the items listed below, the radio station in the above aircraft is fully serviceable and that all maintenance and examination in accordance with the approved maintenance schedule for that station has been carried out and that all adjustments and rectifications found necessary have been made and examined to my satisfaction. (Give details, in the space below, of any unserviceable apparatus. If none write “no items unserviceable”.) Signed ............................... Aircraft Radio Maintenance Engineer: Licence No. ...................................................................... Civil Aviation 227 Time of issue ................................. Dated at ............................................. this ........................ day of ................................................, 20 …………. (3) Prior to the issue of a certificate of serviceability the operator of the aircraft shall furnish such information as may be necessary to enable the aircraft radio maintenance engineer, who is to sign the certificate, to be satisfied that up to the time of issue of such certificate all maintenance and examination required to be carried out in accordance with the approved maintenance schedule for the aircraft station has been so carried out. (4) a certificate of serviceability shall – (a) be prepared in ink or indelible pencil, and shall be issued at such periods as may be laid down in the maintenance schedule for the (b) be issued by the holder of an aircraft radio maintenance engineer’s licence granted or rendered valid by the Governor, and shall be made out in the prescribed manner and signed in duplicate, and shall come into force immediately after it has been issued; (c) be carried in the aircraft and shall be kept with the journey log book of the aircraft, whenever such log book is required to be carried in the aircraft, until a further certificate is issued. The other duplicate copy of the certificate shall be retained by the operator of the aircraft and preserved by him for a minimum period of six months; 228 Civil Aviation (d) cease to be in force at a time when a new certificate is required to be issued in accordance with the terms of the approved maintenance schedule for the aircraft station to which it relates. (5) If any of the radio apparatus comprising an aircraft station is unserviceable, details of the defective apparatus shall be recorded on the certificate of serviceability and the aircraft may then fly provided that the circumstances of the flight are such that carriage in the aircraft of radio apparatus of that type is not compulsory under the provisions of regulation 6. (6) Exceptionally, when an aircraft is located away from its operating base and, through unforeseen circumstances, a certificate of serviceability relating to the aircraft station installed therein ceases to be in force and facilities for complying with the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this regulation are not available, the aircraft may continue to fly without a further certificate having been issued until it arrives at a place where such facilities are available, provided that the person in command thereof is satisfied that the aircraft station, or such of the radio apparatus thereof as is required to be carried under the provisions of regulation 6, is functioning satisfactorily. (7) On the completion of every flight a flight radio operator carried on that flight shall record whether the aircraft station was functioning satisfactorily during the flight, and, in the event of any defect having been disclosed, shall record the nature of the defect. The record shall be handed by the person in command of the aircraft to the operator of the aircraft and shall be preserved by him for a minimum period of six months.