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55.—(1) In this article “the Rules of the Air” means regulations made or having effect as if made under article 95 of the Air Navigation Order 2005 and applied to the Isle of Man under section 11 of the Airports and Civil Aviation Act 1987 (an Act of Tynwald).
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), it shall be an offence to contravene, to permit the contravention of, or to fail to comply with, the Rules of the Air.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Rules of the Air to be departed from to the extent necessary—
(a) for avoiding immediate danger;
(b) for complying with the law of any country other than the Isle of Man within which the aircraft then is; or
(c) for complying with Military Flying Regulations (Joint Service Publication 550) or Flying Orders to Contractors (Aviation Publication 67) issued by the Secretary of State in relation to an aircraft of which the commander is acting as such in the course of his duty as a member of any of Her Majesty’s naval, military or air forces.
(4) If any departure from the Rules of the Air is made for the purpose of avoiding immediate danger, the commander of the aircraft shall cause written particulars of the departure, and of the circumstances giving rise to it, to be given within 10 days thereafter to the competent authority of the country in whose territory the departure was made or if the departure was made over the high seas, to the Department.
(5) Nothing in the Rules of the Air exonerates any person from the consequences of any neglect in the use of lights or signals or of the neglect of any precautions required by ordinary aviation practice or by the special circumstances of the case.
56.—(1) The operator and the commander of an aircraft registered in the Isle of Man (or, if the operator’s principal place of business or permanent residence is in the Isle of Man, any other aircraft) which is being flown over any foreign country shall not allow that aircraft to be used for a purpose which is prejudicial to the security, public order or public health of, or to the safety of air navigation in relation to, that country.
(2) A person does not contravene paragraph (1) if he neither knew nor suspected that the aircraft was being or was to be used for a purpose referred to in paragraph (1).
(3) The operator and the commander of an aircraft registered in the Isle of Man (or, if the operator’s principal place of business or permanent residence is in the Isle of Man, any other aircraft) which is being flown over any foreign country shall comply with any directions given by the appropriate aeronautical authorities of that country whenever—
(a) the flight has not been duly authorised; or
(b) there are reasonable grounds for the appropriate aeronautical authorities to believe that the aircraft is being or will be used for a purpose which is prejudicial to the security, public order or public health of, or to the safety of air navigation in relation to, that country;
unless the lives of persons on board or the safety of the aircraft would thereby be endangered.
(4) A person does not contravene paragraph (3) if he neither knew nor suspected that directions were being given by the appropriate aeronautical authorities.
(5) The requirement in paragraph (3) is without prejudice to any other requirement to comply with directions of an aeronautical authority.
(6) In this article “appropriate aeronautical authorities” includes any person, whether a member of a country’s military or civil authorities, authorised under the law of the foreign country to issue directions to aircraft flying over that country.
57.—(1) The objective of this article is to contribute to the improvement of air safety by ensuring that relevant information on safety is reported, collected, stored, protected and disseminated.
(2) The sole objective of occurrence reporting is the prevention of accidents and incidents and not to attribute blame or liability.
(3) This article applies to occurrences which endanger or which, if not corrected, would endanger an aircraft, its occupants or any other person.
(4) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (3), a list of examples of these occurrences is set out in Annexes I and II (and their Appendices) of Directive 2003/42/EC of 13th June 2003 on occurrence reporting in civil aviation(5).
(5) Every person listed below shall report to the Department any event which constitutes an occurrence for the purposes of paragraph (3) and which comes to his attention in the exercise of his functions—
(a) the operator and the commander of a turbine-powered aircraft which has a certificate of airworthiness issued by the Department;
(b) a person who carries on the business of maintaining or modifying an aircraft, which has a certificate of airworthiness issued by the Department, and a person who carries on the business of maintaining or modifying any equipment or part of such an aircraft;
(c) a person who signs a certificate of release to service in respect of an aircraft, which has a certificate of airworthiness issued by the Department, and a person who signs a certificate of release to service in respect of any equipment or part of such an aircraft;
(d) a licensee and a manager of a licensed aerodrome.
(6) Reports of occurrences shall be made within such time, by such means and containing such information as may be prescribed and shall be presented in such form as the Department may in any particular case approve.
(7) A person listed in paragraph (5) shall make a report to the Department within such time, by such means, and containing such information as the Department may specify in a notice in writing served upon him, being information which is in his possession or control and which relates to an occurrence which has been reported by him or another person to the Department in accordance with this article.
(8) A person shall not make any report under this article if he knows or has reason to believe that the report is false in any particular.
(9) The Department shall put in place a mechanism to collect, evaluate, process and store occurrences reported in accordance with paragraphs (5) to (7).
(10) The Department and the Chief Inspector of Air Accidents shall use any information received in accordance with the terms of this article solely for the purposes set out in this article.
(11) Without prejudice to the rules of criminal law, no proceedings shall be instituted in respect of unpremeditated or inadvertent infringements of the law which come to the attention of the relevant authorities only because they have been reported under this article, except in cases of gross negligence.
(12) The provisions in paragraphs (10) and (11) apply without prejudice to the right of access to information by judicial authorities.
(13) Where a report is made voluntarily to the Department of an perceived actual or potential hazard which is not required to be reported under the system of mandatory reporting, it shall be subjected to a process of disidentification by it where the person making the report requests that his identity is not recorded on a database.
(14) The Department shall ensure that relevant safety information deriving from the analysis of reports, which have been subjected to disidentification, are stored and made available to all parties so that they can be used for improving safety in aviation.
58.—(1) If it appears to the Department or an authorised person that any aircraft is intended or likely to be flown—
(a) in such circumstances that any provision of article 2, 4, 5, 6, 20, 21, 34, 35, 36 or 40(2) would be contravened in relation to the flight;
(b) in such circumstances that the flight would be in contravention of any other provision of this Order or of any regulations made thereunder and be a cause of danger to any person or property whether or not in the aircraft; or
(c) while in a condition unfit for the flight, whether or not the flight would otherwise be in contravention of any provision of this Order or of any regulations made thereunder;
the Department or that authorised person may direct the operator or the commander of the aircraft that he is not to permit the aircraft to make the particular flight or any other flight of such description as may be specified in the direction, until the direction has been revoked by the Department or by an authorised person, and the Department or that authorised person may take such steps as are necessary to detain the aircraft.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) the Department or any authorised person may enter upon and inspect any aircraft.
(3) If it appears to the Department or an authorised person that any aircraft is intended or likely to be flown in such circumstances that any provision of article 56 would be contravened in relation to the flight, the Department or that authorised person may direct the operator or the commander of the aircraft that he is not to permit the aircraft to make a particular flight or any other flight of such description as may be specified in the direction until the direction has been revoked by the Department or by an authorised person, and the Department or any authorised person may take such steps as are necessary to detain the aircraft.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3) the Department or any authorised person may enter upon any aerodrome and may enter upon and inspect any aircraft.
59. The Department and any authorised person shall have the right of access at all reasonable times—
(a) to any aerodrome for the purpose of inspecting any aircraft on the aerodrome or any document which it or he has power to demand under this Order, or for the purpose of detaining any aircraft under the provisions of this Order; and
(b) to any place where an aircraft has landed, for the purpose of inspecting the aircraft or any document which it or he has power to demand under this Order and for the purpose of detaining the aircraft under the provisions of this Order.
60. A person shall not intentionally obstruct or impede any person acting in the exercise of his powers or the performance of his duties under this Order.
61.—(1) Where any provision of this Order or any regulations made thereunder gives to a person the power to direct, the person to whom such a power is given shall also have the power to revoke or vary any such direction.
(2) Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any direction given to him under any provision of this Order or any regulations made thereunder shall be deemed for the purposes of this Order to have contravened that provision.
62.—(1) If any provision of this Order or any regulations made thereunder is contravened in relation to an aircraft, the operator of that aircraft and the commander of that aircraft shall (without prejudice to the liability of any other person for that contravention) be deemed for the purposes of the following provisions of this article to have contravened that provision unless he proves that the contravention occurred without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the contravention.
(2) If it is proved that an act or omission of any person which would otherwise have been a contravention by that person of a provision of this Order or any regulations made thereunder was due to any cause not avoidable by the exercise of reasonable care by that person the act or omission shall be deemed not to be a contravention by that person of that provision.
(3) Where a person is charged with contravening a provision of this Order or any regulations made thereunder by reason of his having been a member of the flight crew of an aircraft on a flight for the purpose of public transport or aerial work the flight shall be treated (without prejudice to the liability of any other person under this Order) as not having been for that purpose if he proves that he neither knew nor suspected that the flight was for that purpose.
(4) If any person contravenes any provision of this Order, or any regulations made thereunder not being a provision referred to in paragraph (5) or (6), he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(5) If any person contravenes any provision specified in Part A of Schedule 8 he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
(6) If any person contravenes any provision specified in Part B of the said Schedule he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum and on conviction on information to a fine or custody for a term not exceeding two years or both.
63.—(1) Except where the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this Order—
(a) in so far as they apply (whether by express reference or otherwise) to aircraft registered in the Isle of Man, apply to such aircraft wherever they may be;
(b) in so far as they apply as aforesaid to other aircraft apply to such other aircraft when they are within the Isle of Man;
(c) in so far as they prohibit, require or regulate (whether by express reference or otherwise) the doing of anything by persons in, or by any of the crew of, any aircraft registered in the Isle of Man, apply to such persons and crew, wherever they may be; and
(d) in so far as they prohibit, require or regulate as aforesaid the doing of anything in relation to any aircraft registered in the Isle of Man by other persons, where such persons are Commonwealth citizens, British protected persons or citizens of the Republic of Ireland, apply to them wherever they may be.
(2) Nothing in this article shall be construed as extending to make any person guilty of an offence in any case in which it is provided by section 3(1) of the British Nationality Act 1948(6) that that person shall not be guilty of an offence.
64. The Department may direct that such of the provisions of this Order and of any regulations made thereunder as may be specified in the direction shall have effect as if reference in those provisions to aircraft registered in the Isle of Man included references to the aircraft specified in the direction, being an aircraft registered elsewhere than in the Isle of Man but for the time being under the management of a person who, or of persons each of whom, is qualified to hold a legal or beneficial interest by way of ownership in an aircraft registered in the Isle of Man.
65.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, the provisions of this Order shall apply to or in relation to aircraft belonging to or exclusively employed in the service of Her Majesty as they apply to or in relation to other aircraft.
(2) For the purposes of such application, the authority for the time being responsible on behalf of Her Majesty for the management of the aircraft shall be deemed to be the operator of the aircraft and, in the case of an aircraft belonging to Her Majesty, to be the owner of the interest of Her Majesty in the aircraft.
(3) Nothing in this article shall render liable to any penalty any authority responsible on behalf of Her Majesty for the management of any aircraft.
(4) Save as otherwise expressly provided the naval, military and air force authorities and members of any visiting force and any international headquarters and the members and property held or used for the purpose of such a force or headquarters shall be exempt from the provisions of this Order and of any regulations made thereunder to the same extent as if that force or headquarters formed part of the forces of Her Majesty raised in the Isle of Man and for the time being serving there.
(5) Save as otherwise provided by paragraph (6) and by the Rules of the Air Regulations 1996 (so far as they impose a requirement to give way to military aircraft), nothing in this Order shall apply to or in relation to any military aircraft.
(6) Where a military aircraft is flown by a civilian pilot and is not commanded by a person who is acting in the course of his duty as a member of any of Her Majesty’s naval, military or air forces or as a member of a visiting force or international headquarters, the following provisions of this Order shall apply on the occasion of that flight, that is to say, articles 38, 39 and 40 and in addition article 55 (so far as applicable) shall apply unless the aircraft is flown in compliance with Military Flying Regulations (Joint Service Publication 550) or Flying Orders to Contractors (Aviation Publication 67) issued by the Secretary of State.
66. The Department may exempt from any of the provisions of this Order (other than article 47, 49 or 56) or any regulations made thereunder, any aircraft or persons or classes of aircraft or persons, either absolutely or subject to such conditions as it thinks fit.
67.—(1) An appeal shall lie to the High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man from any decision of the Department under article 13 or 22 of this Order and if the court is satisfied that on the evidence submitted to the Department it was wrong in so deciding, the court may reverse the Department’s decision and the Department shall give effect to the court’s decision.
(2) An appeal shall not lie from a decision of the Department that a person is not qualified to have a licence rendered valid by reason of a deficiency in his knowledge, experience, competence, skill, physical or mental fitness.
(3) The Department shall be a respondent to any appeal under this article.
(4) For the purposes of any provision relating to the time within which an appeal may be brought, the Department’s decision shall be deemed to have been taken on the date on which the Department furnished a statement of its reasons for the decision to the applicant for the licence, or as the case may be, the holder or former holder of the validated licence.
68.—(1) In this Order—
“A Conditions” means the conditions so entitled set out in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2;
“aerial work” has the meaning given by Schedule 9;
“aerial work aircraft” means an aircraft (other than a public transport aircraft) flying, or intended by the operator to fly, for the purpose of aerial work;
“aerial work undertaking” means an undertaking whose business includes the performance of aerial work;
“aerobatic manoeuvres” includes loops, spins, rolls, bunts, stall turns, inverted flying and any other similar manoeuvre;
“aerodrome” means any area of land or water designed, equipped, set apart or commonly used for affording facilities for the landing and departure of aircraft and includes any area or space, whether on the ground, on the roof of a building or elsewhere, which is designed, equipped or set apart for affording facilities for the landing and departure of aircraft capable of descending or climbing vertically, but shall not include any area the use of which for affording facilities for the landing and departure of aircraft has been abandoned and has not been resumed;
“aerodrome control service” means an air traffic control service for any aircraft on the manoeuvring area or apron of the aerodrome in respect of which the service is being provided or which is flying in, or in the vicinity of, the aerodrome traffic zone of that aerodrome by visual reference to the surface or any aircraft transferred from approach control in accordance with procedures approved by the Department;
“aerodrome operating minima” in relation to the operation of an aircraft at an aerodrome means the cloud ceiling and runway visual range for take-off, and the decision height or minimum descent height, runway visual range and visual reference for landing, which are the minimum for the operation of that aircraft at that aerodrome;
“aeronautical ground light” means any light specifically provided as an aid to air navigation, other than a light displayed on an aircraft;
“aeronautical radio station” means a radio station on the surface, which transmits or receives signals for the purpose of assisting aircraft;
“air transport undertaking” means an undertaking whose business includes the undertaking of flights for the purpose of the public transport of passengers or cargo;
“alternate aerodrome” means an aerodrome to which an aircraft may proceed when it becomes either impossible or inadvisable to proceed to or to land at the aerodrome of intended landing;
“annual costs” in relation to the operation of an aircraft means the best estimate reasonably practicable at the time of a particular flight in respect of the year commencing on the first day of January preceding the date of the flight, of the costs of keeping and maintaining and the indirect costs of operating the aircraft, such costs in either case excluding direct costs and being those actually and necessarily incurred without a view to profit;
“annual flying hours” means the best estimate reasonably practicable at the time of a particular flight by an aircraft of the hours flown or to be flown by the aircraft in respect of the year commencing on the first day of January preceding the date of the flight;
“approach control service” means an air traffic control service for any aircraft which is not receiving an aerodrome control service, which is flying in, or in the vicinity of the aerodrome traffic zone of the aerodrome in respect of which the service is being provided, whether or not the aircraft is flying by visual reference to the surface;
“approach to landing” means that portion of the flight of the aircraft, when approaching to land, in which it is descending below a height of 1,000 feet above the relevant specified decision height or minimum descent height;
“appropriate aeronautical radio station” means in relation to an aircraft an aeronautical radio station serving the area in which the aircraft is for the time being;
“appropriate air traffic control unit” means in relation to an aircraft either the air traffic control unit serving the area in which the aircraft is for the time being or the air traffic control unit serving the area which the aircraft intends to enter and with which unit the aircraft is required to communicate prior to entering that area, as the context requires;
“area navigation equipment” means equipment carried on board an aircraft which enables the aircraft to navigate on any desired flight path within the coverage of appropriate ground based navigation aids or within the limits of that on-board equipment or a combination of the two;
“authorised aviation medical examiner” means a designated medical examiner, qualified and licensed in the practice of medicine, to conduct medical examinations of fitness of applicants for the issue or renewal of flight crew licences;
“authorised person” means—
any constable; and
any person authorised by the Department (whether by name, or by class or description) either generally or in relation to a particular case or class of cases;
“B Conditions” means the conditions so entitled set out in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2;
“beneficial interest” includes interests arising under contract and other equitable interests;
“British protected person” has the same meaning as in section 50 of the British Nationality Act 1981(7);
“CAA” means the Civil Aviation Authority of the United Kingdom;
“cabin crew” in relation to an aircraft means those persons on a flight carried for the purpose of performing in the interests of the safety of passengers duties to be assigned by the operator or the commander of the aircraft but who shall not act as a member of the flight crew;
“cargo” includes mail and (for the avoidance of doubt) animals;
“certificate of airworthiness” includes any flight manual, performance schedule or other document, whatever its title, incorporated by reference in that certificate relating to the certificate of airworthiness;
“certificate of maintenance review” has the meaning given by article 11(1)(b);
“certificate of release to service issued under this Order” means a certificate issued by a person specified in article 12(10) which conforms with article 12(9);
“certificate of validation” means a certificate issued by the Department rendering valid for the purposes of this Order a certificate of airworthiness or a permit to fly issued in respect of an aircraft registered elsewhere than in the Isle of Man or a licence or approval granted under the law of a country other than the Isle of Man;
“certificate of validity” means a certificate issued under article 9(5)(d) for the purpose of maintaining the validity of a permit to fly issued by the Department;
“cloud ceiling” in relation to an aerodrome means the vertical distance from the elevation of the aerodrome to the lowest part of any cloud visible from the aerodrome which is sufficient to obscure more than one-half of the sky so visible;
“commander” in relation to an aircraft means the member of the flight crew designated as commander of that aircraft by the operator, or, failing such a person, the person who is for the time being the pilot in command of the aircraft;
“the Commonwealth” means the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, the countries mentioned in Schedule 3 to the British Nationality Act 1981 and all other territories forming part of Her Majesty’s dominions or in which Her Majesty has jurisdiction and “Commonwealth citizen” shall be construed accordingly;
“competent authority” means in relation to the Isle of Man, the Department, and in relation to any other country the authority responsible under the law of that country for promoting the safety of civil aviation;
“conditional sale agreement” has the same meaning as in section 189 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974(8);
“congested area” in relation to a city, town or settlement, means any area which is substantially used for residential, industrial, commercial or recreational purposes;
“Contracting State” means any State (including the United Kingdom) which is party to the Chicago Convention;
“co-pilot” in relation to an aircraft means a pilot who in performing his duties as such is subject to the direction of another pilot carried in the aircraft;
“country” includes a territory;
“crew” means a member of the flight crew, a person carried on the flight deck who is appointed by the operator of the aircraft to give or to supervise the training, experience, practice and periodical tests required in respect of the flight crew in accordance with the law of the country in which the aircraft is registered or the State of the operator or a member of the cabin crew;
“decision height” in relation to the operation of an aircraft at an aerodrome means the height in a precision approach at which a missed approach must be initiated if the required visual reference to continue that approach has not been established;
“the Department” means the Department of Transport of the Isle of Man Government;
“designated required navigation performance airspace” means airspace which has been notified, prescribed or otherwise designated by the competent authority for the airspace as requiring specified navigation performance capabilities to be met by aircraft flying within it;
“direct costs” means, in respect of a flight, the costs actually and necessarily incurred in connection with that flight without a view to profit but excluding any remuneration payable to the pilot for his services as such;
“director” has the same meaning as in section 53(1) of the Companies Act 1989(9);
“disidentification” means removing from reports submitted all personal details pertaining to the reporter and technical details which might lead to the identity of the reporter, or of third parties, being inferred from the information;
“flight” and “to fly” have the meanings respectively given by paragraph (2);
“flight check” means a check carried out by an aircraft in flight of the accuracy and reliability of signals transmitted by an aeronautical radio station;
“flight crew” in relation to an aircraft means those members of the crew of the aircraft who respectively undertake to act as pilot, flight navigator, flight engineer and flight radiotelephony operator of the aircraft;
“flight level” means one of a series of levels of equal atmospheric pressure, separated by notified intervals and each expressed as the number of hundreds of feet which would be indicated at that level on a pressure altimeter calibrated in accordance with the International Standard Atmosphere and set to 1013.2 hectopascals;
“flight manual” means a document provided for an aircraft stating the limitations within which the aircraft is considered airworthy as defined by the appropriate airworthiness requirements, and additional instructions and information necessary for the safe operation of the aircraft;
“flight recording system” means a system comprising either a flight data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder or both;
“flight simulator” means apparatus by means of which flight conditions in an aircraft are simulated on the ground;
“flying display” means any flying activity deliberately performed for the purpose of providing an exhibition or entertainment at an advertised event open to the public;
“flying machine” means an aeroplane, a powered lift tilt rotor aircraft, a self-launching motor glider, a helicopter or a gyroplane;
“glider” means—
a non-power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed under given conditions of flight;
a self-sustaining glider; and
a self-propelled hang-glider;
and a reference in this Order to a glider includes a reference to a self-sustaining glider and a self-propelled hang-glider;
“hire-purchase agreement” has the same meaning as in section 189 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974;
“ICAO” means the International Civil Aviation Organisation;
“ICAO licence” means a flight crew licence granted by a Contracting State of ICAO;
“Instrument Flight Rules” means Instrument Flight Rules prescribed by Section VI of the Rules of the Air Regulations 1996;
“Instrument Landing System” means a ground-based radio system designed to transmit radio signals at very high frequency and ultra high frequency that allow the pilot of an aircraft to accurately determine the aircraft’s position relative to a defined approach path whilst carrying out an approach to land;
“International Standards” means the Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPS) contained in the Annexes to the Convention on International Civil Aviation;
“JAA” means the Joint Aviation Authorities, an associated body of the European Civil Aviation Conference;
“JAA Full Member State” means a State which is a full member of the JAA;
“JAA licence” means a flight crew licence granted under JAR-FCL 1 or 2 by the competent authority of a JAA Full Member State in accordance with a procedure which has been assessed as satisfactory following an inspection by a licensing and a medical standardisation team of the JAA;
“JAR-FCL 1” means the Joint Aviation Requirement of the JAA bearing that title including Amendment 3 adopted by the JAA on 1st July 2003;
“kg” means kilogramme or kilogrammes as the context requires;
“to land” in relation to aircraft includes alighting on the water;
“legal personal representative” means the person so constituted executor, administrator, or other representative, of a deceased person;
“licence” in relation to a flight crew licence includes any certificate of competency or certificate of validation or revalidation issued with the licence or required to be held in connection with the licence by the law of the country in which the licence is granted;
“licensed aerodrome” means an aerodrome licensed under this Order;
“lifejacket” includes any device designed to support a person individually in or on the water;
“log book” in the case of an aircraft log book, engine log book or variable pitch propeller log book, or personal flying log book, includes a record kept either in a book, or by any other means approved by the relevant NAA in the particular case;
“maintenance” means in relation to an aircraft any one or combination of overhaul, repair, inspection, replacement, modification or defect rectification of an aircraft or component, with the exception of pre-flight inspection;
“maximum approved passenger seating configuration” means the maximum number of passengers which may be carried in the aircraft under and in accordance with its certificate of airworthiness, its flight manual and this Order;
“maximum total weight authorised” in relation to an aircraft means the maximum total weight of the aircraft and its contents at which the aircraft may take off anywhere in the world, in the most favourable circumstances in accordance with the certificate of airworthiness in force in respect of the aircraft;
“Microwave Landing System” means a ground-based radio system designed to transmit radio signals at super high frequency that allow the pilot of an aircraft to accurately determine the aircraft’s position within a defined volume of airspace whilst carrying out an approach to land;
“minimum descent height” in relation to the operation of an aircraft at an aerodrome means the height in a non-precision approach below which descent may not be made without the required visual reference;
“National Aviation Authority” and “NAA” means the national aviation authority for the purposes of Regulation (EC) No. 1592/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15th July 2002 on common rules in the field of civil aviation and establishing a European Aviation Safety Agency(10);
“national permit to fly” means a permit to fly issued under and in accordance with Part 3 of this Order;
“night” means the time from half an hour after sunset until half an hour before sunrise (both times inclusive), sunset and sunrise being determined at surface level;
“non-precision approach” means an instrument approach using non-visual aids for guidance in azimuth or elevation but which is not a precision approach;
“North Atlantic Minimum Navigation Performance Specification airspace” means the airspace prescribed as such;
“notified” means set out with the authority of the CAA in a document published by or under an arrangement entered into with the CAA and entitled “United Kingdom Notam” or “Air Pilot” and for the time being in force;
“occurrence” means an operational interruption, defect, fault or other irregular circumstance that has or may have influenced flight safety and that has not resulted in an accident or serious incident as those terms are defined in regulation 2 of the Civil Aviation (Investigation of Air Accidents and Incidents) Regulations 1996(11);
“operator” has the meaning given by paragraph (3);
“Part 66” means annex III so entitled to Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2042/2003(12);
“Part 145” means annex II so entitled to Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2042/2003;
“passenger” means a person other than a member of the crew;
“pilot in command” in relation to an aircraft means a person who for the time being is in charge of the piloting of the aircraft without being under the direction of any other pilot in the aircraft;
“pre-flight inspection” means the inspection carried out before flight to ensure that the aircraft is fit for the intended flight;
“precision approach” means an instrument approach using an Instrument Landing System, Microwave Landing System or precision approach radar for guidance in both azimuth and elevation;
“pressurised aircraft” means an aircraft provided with means of maintaining in any compartment a pressure greater than that of the surrounding atmosphere;
“private aircraft” means an aircraft which is neither an aerial work nor a public transport aircraft;
“private flight” means a flight which is neither for the purpose of aerial work nor public transport;
“public transport” has the meaning given by Schedule 9;
“public transport aircraft” means an aircraft flying, or intended by the operator of the aircraft to fly, for the purpose of public transport;
“record” includes, in addition to a record in writing —
a disc, tape, sound-track or other device in which sounds or signals are embodied to as to be capable of being reproduced from it (with or without the aid of some other instrument);
a film, tape or other device in which visual images are embodied so as to be capable of being reproduced from it (with or without the aid of some other instrument);
a photograph;
“reduced vertical separation minimum airspace” means any airspace between flight level 290 and flight level 410 inclusive designated by the relevant competent authority as being airspace within which a vertical separation minimum of 1,000 feet or 300 metres shall be applied;
“relevant overseas territory” means any colony and any country or place outside Her Majesty’s dominions in which for the time being Her Majesty has jurisdiction;
“replacement” in relation to any part of an aircraft or its equipment includes the removal and replacement of that part whether or not by the same part, and whether or not any work is done on it, but does not include the removal and replacement of a part which is designed to be removable solely for the purpose of enabling another part to be inspected, repaired, removed or replaced or cargo to be loaded;
“runway visual range” in relation to a runway means the distance in the direction of take-off or landing over which the runway lights or surface markings may be seen from the touchdown zone as calculated by either human observation or instruments in—
the vicinity of the touchdown zone; or
where this is not reasonably practicable, in the vicinity of the midpoint of the runway;
and the distance, if any, communicated to the commander of an aircraft by or on behalf of the person in charge of the aerodrome as being the runway visual range shall be taken to be the runway visual range for the time being;
“self-launching motor glider” means an aircraft with the characteristics of a non-power-driven glider, which is fitted with one or more power units and which is designed or intended to take off under its own power;
“self-propelled hang-glider” means an aircraft comprising an aerofoil wing and a mechanical propulsion device which—
is foot launched;
has a stall speed or minimum steady flight speed in the landing configuration not exceeding 35 knots calibrated airspeed;
carries a maximum of two persons;
has a maximum fuel capacity of 10 litres; and
has a maximum unladen weight, including full fuel, of 60 kg for single place aircraft and 70 kg for two place aircraft;
“self-sustaining glider” means an aircraft with the characteristics of a non-power-driven glider which is fitted with one or more power units capable of sustaining the aircraft in flight but which is not designed or intended to take off under its own power;
“small aircraft” means any unmanned aircraft, other than a balloon or a kite, weighing not more than 20 kg without its fuel but including any articles or equipment installed in or attached to the aircraft at the commencement of its flight;
“small balloon” means a balloon not exceeding 2 metres in any linear dimension at any stage of its flight, including any basket or other equipment attached to the balloon;
“State aircraft” means an aircraft engaged in military, customs, police or similar services;
“State of the operator” means the State in which the operator of an aircraft has his principal place of business or, if he has no such place of business, his permanent residence, in circumstances where—
that aircraft is registered in another Contracting State;
the operator is operating that aircraft under an agreement for its lease, charter or interchange or any similar arrangement;
the State in which that aircraft is registered has, by agreement with the State in which the operator of the aircraft has his principal place of business or, if he has no such place of business, his permanent residence, agreed to transfer to it its functions and duties as State of registry in respect of that aircraft in relation to, in the case of article 6(1), airworthiness, in the case of article 15(1), aircraft radio equipment, in the case of article 21(3), flight crew licensing or, in the case of article 29(1), radio licensing; and
the agreement has been registered with the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation or the existence and scope of the agreement have been directly communicated to the CAA;
“type rating” in respect of aeroplanes has the meaning specified in paragraph 1.215 of Section 1 of JAR-FCL 1;
“type rating” in respect of helicopters has the meaning specified in paragraph 2.215 of Section 1 of JAR-FCL 2;
“validated licence” means a JAA licence or ICAO licence rendered valid under article 22;
“valuable consideration” means any right, interest, profit or benefit, forbearance, detriment, loss or responsibility accruing, given, suffered or undertaken under an agreement, which is of more than a nominal nature;
“Visual Flight Rules” means Visual Flight Rules prescribed by Section V of the Rules of the Air Regulations 1996.
(2) A piloted flying machine shall be deemed to be in flight from the moment when, after the embarkation of its crew for the purpose of taking off, it first moves under its own power until the moment when it next comes to rest after landing; and the expressions “a flight” and “to fly” shall be construed accordingly.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), references in this Order to the operator of an aircraft are, for the purposes of the application of any provision of this Order in relation to any particular aircraft, references to the person who at the relevant time has the management of that aircraft.
(4) For the purposes of the application of any provision in Part 3 of this Order, when by virtue of any charter or other agreement for the hire or loan of an aircraft a person other than an air transport undertaking or an aerial work undertaking has the management of that aircraft for a period not exceeding 14 days, paragraph (3) shall have effect as if that agreement had not been entered into.
(5) The expressions appearing in the “Classification of Aircraft” in Part A of Schedule 1 shall have the meanings thereby given to them.
(6) References in this Order to regulations made under this Order include references to regulations made or having effect as if made under the Air Navigation Order 2005 and applied to the Isle of Man under section 11 of the Airports and Civil Aviation Act 1987 (an Act of Tynwald).
(7) References in this Order to any provision of the Rules of the Air Regulations 1996 or the Civil Aviation (Investigation of Air Accidents and Incidents) Regulations 1996 are to that provision as applied to the Isle of Man under section 11 of the Airports and Civil Aviation Act 1987 (an Act of Tynwald).
The Air Navigation (Isle of Man) Order 2007