Composition of crew of aircraft

(1) An aircraft shall not fly unless it carries a flight crew of the number and description required by the law of the country in which it is registered. (2) An aircraft registered in the Colony shall carry a flight crew adequate in number and description to ensure the safety of the aircraft and of at least the number and description specified in the certificate of airworthiness issued or rendered valid under this Order or, if no certificate of airworthiness is required under this Order to be in force, the certificate of airworthiness, if any, last in force under this Order, in respect of that aircraft. (3) A flying machine registered in the Colony and flying for the purpose of public transport, having a maximum total weight authorised of more than 22,500 lb., shall carry not less than two pilots as members of the flight crew thereof. Eighth Schedule. (4) An aircraft registered in the Colony engaged on a flight for the purpose of public transport shall carry a flight navigator as a member of the flight crew if on the route or any diversion therefrom, being a route or diversion planned before take-off, the aircraft is intended to be more than 500 nautical miles from the point of take-off measured along the route to be flown, and over part of an area specified in the Eighth Schedule to this Order. The flight navigator carried in compliance with this paragraph shall be carried in addition to any person who is carried in accordance with this Article to perform other duties. (5) An aircraft registered in the Colony which is required by the provisions of Article 10 of this Order to be equipped with radio communication apparatus shall carry a flight radio operator as member of the flight crew, who, if he is required to operate radiotelegraph apparatus, shall be carried in addition to Civil Aviation 337 any other person who is carried in accordance with this article to perform other duties. (6) If it appears to it to be expedient to do so in the interests of safety, the Governor may direct any particular operator of any aircraft registered in the Colony that the aircraft operated by him or any such aircraft shall not fly in such circumstances as the Governor may specify unless those aircraft carry in addition to the flight crew required to be carried therein by the foregoing provisions of this article such additional persons as members of the flight crew as it may specify in the direction. (7) When an aircraft registered in the Colony carries twenty or more passengers on a flight for the purpose of public transport, the crew of the aircraft shall include a person carried for the purpose of performing in the interest of the safety of passengers’ duties to be assigned by the operator or the person in command of the aircraft, but who shall not act as a member of the flight crew. flight crew-