Operations Manual

(1) This Article shall apply to public transport aircraft registered in the Colony except aircraft used for the time being solely for flights not intended to exceed 60 minutes in duration, which are either– (a) flights solely for training persons to perform duties in an aircraft; or (b) flights intended to begin and end at the same (2) (a) The operator of every aircraft to which this Article applies shall– (i) make available to each member of his operating staff an operation manual; and (ii) ensure that each copy of the operations manual is kept up to date and that one copy thereof is carried on each flight so as to be available to the members of the 348 Civil Aviation (b) Each operations manual shall contain all such information and instructions as may be necessary to enable the operating staff to perform their duties as such including in information and relating to the matters specified in Part A of the Tenth Schedule to this Order, Tenth Schedule. provided that the operations manual shall not be required to contain any information or instructions available in a flight manual accessible to the persons by whom the information or instructions may be required. (3) The operator of the aircraft shall, if the Governor shall so require, furnish the Governor with a copy of the whole of the operations manual for the time being in effect, or of such parts thereof as the Governor may specify. The operator shall make such amendments of or additions to the operations manual as the Governor may require for the purpose of ensuring the safety of the aircraft or of persons or property carried therein or the safety, efficiency or regularity of air navigation. Tenth Schedule. (4) For the purposes of this Article and the Tenth schedule to this Order “operating staff” means the servants and agents employed by the operator, whether or not as members of the crew of the aircraft, to ensure that the flights of the aircraft are conducted in a safe manner, and includes an operator who himself performs those functions. operator’s