Hong Kong Regulations

AIR NAVIGATION (HONG KONG) ORDER 1995 - SECT 18

Composition of crew of aircraft

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PART IV

AIRCRAFT CREW AND LICENSING

(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 Hong Kong 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) A flying machine registered in Hong Kong and flying for the purpose of
public transport having a maximum total weight authorized exceeding 5700 kg,
shall carry not less than two pilots as members of the flight crew thereof.

   (b)  An aeroplane registered in Hong Kong and flying for the purpose of
        public transport in circumstances where the aircraft commander is
        required to comply with Instrument Flight Rules and having a maximum
        total weight authorized of 5700 kg, or less and powered by:-

        (i)    one or more turbine jets;

        (ii)   one or more turbine propeller engines and provided with a means
               of pressurizing the personnel compartments;

        (iii)  two or more turbine propeller engines and certificated to carry
               more than nine passengers;

        (iv)   two or more turbine propeller engines and certificated to carry
               fewer than ten passengers and not provided with a means of
               pressurizing the personnel compartments unless it is equipped
               with an auto-pilot which has been approved by the Governor for
               the purposes of this Article and which is serviceable on
               take-off; or

        (v)    two or more piston engines unless it is equipped with an
               auto-pilot which has been approved by the Governor for the
               purposes of this Article and which is serviceable on take-off;
               shall carry not less than two pilots as members of the flight
               crew thereof: Provided that an aeroplane powered by two or more
               turbine propeller engines and certificated to carry fewer than
               ten passengers or an aeroplane powered by two or more piston
               engines and equipped with an appropriate auto-pilot shall not
               be required to carry two pilots notwithstanding that before
               take-off the approved auto-pilot is found to be unserviceable
               if the aeroplane flies in accordance with arrangements approved
               by the Governor.

(4) An aircraft registered in Hong Kong engaged on a flight for the purpose of
public transport shall carry:

   (a)  a flight navigator as a member of the flight crew; or

   (b)  navigational equipment approved by the Governor and used in accordance
        with any conditions subject to which that approval may have been
        given; 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 to pass over part of an area specified in
        Schedule 8 to this Order. The flight navigator carried in compliance
        with this Article 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 Hong Kong which is required by the provisions of
Article 14 of this Order to be equipped with radio communication apparatus
shall carry a flight radio operator as a member of the flight crew, who, if he
is required to operate radiotelegraph apparatus, shall be carried in addition
to any other person who is carried in accordance with this Article to perform
other duties.

(6) If it appears to him to be expedient to do so in the interests of safety,
the Governor may direct any particular operator of any aircraft registered in
Hong Kong 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 he may specify in the direction.

(7) (a) This paragraph applies to any flight for the purpose of public
transport by an aircraft registered in Hong Kong:

        (i)    on which is carried twenty or more passengers; or

        (ii)   which may in accordance with its certificate of airworthiness
               carry more than thirty-five passengers and on which at least
               one passenger is carried.

   (b)  The crew of an aircraft on a flight to which this paragraph applies
        shall include cabin attendants carried for the purposes 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
        members of the flight crew.

   (c)  On a flight to which this paragraph applies, there shall be carried
        not less than one cabin attendant for every fifty, or fraction of
        fifty passenger seats installed in the aircraft: Provided that the
        number of cabin attendants calculated in accordance with this
        sub-paragraph need not be carried where the Governor has granted
        written permission to the operator to carry a lesser number on that
        flight and the operator carries the number specified in that
        permission and complies with any other terms and conditions subject to
        which such permission is granted.

(8) If it appears to him to be expedient to do so in the interests of safety,
the Governor may direct any particular operator of any aircraft registered in
Hong Kong 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 cabin attendants required to be carried therein by the
foregoing provisions of this Article such additional persons as cabin
attendants as he may specify in the direction.