Hong Kong Regulations

AIR NAVIGATION (HONG KONG) ORDER 1995 - SECT 25

Operations Manual

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 36 of 1999 s. 3 PART V

OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT

(1) This Article shall apply to public transport aircraft registered in Hong
Kong except aircraft whose maximum total weight authorized does not exceed
2730 kg and which are 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 aerodrome.

(2) (a) The operator of every aircraft to which this Article applies shall-

        (i)    make available to each member of his operating staff an
               operations manual, and

        (ii)   ensure that each copy of the operations manual is kept up to
               date, and

        (iii)  ensure that on each flight every member of the crew has access
               to a copy of every part of the operations manual which is
               relevant to his duties on the flight.

   (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 particular information and
        instructions relating to the matters specified in Part A of Schedule
        11 to this Order: 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) (a) An aircraft to which this Article applies shall not fly unless, not
less than 30 days prior to such flight, the operator of the aircraft has
furnished to the Chief Executive a copy of the whole of the operations manual
for the time being in effect in respect of the aircraft.

   (b)  Any amendments or additions to the operations manual shall be
        furnished to the Chief Executive by the operator before or immediately
        after they come into effect: Provided that, where an amendment or
        addition relates to the operation of an aircraft to which the
        operations manual did not previously relate, that aircraft shall not
        fly for the purpose of public transport until the amendment or
        addition has been furnished to the Chief Executive.

   (c)  Without prejudice to the foregoing sub-paragraphs the operator shall
        make such amendments or additions to the operations manual as the
        Chief Executive 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. (36 of 1999 s. 3)

(4) For the purposes of this Article, Article 42 and Schedule 11 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.

(5) If in the course of a flight on which the equipment specified in Scale O
in paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 hereto is required to be provided the said
equipment becomes unserviceable, the aircraft shall be operated on the
remainder of that flight in accordance with any relevant instructions in the
operations manual.

"operating staff"