Hong Kong Regulations

AIR NAVIGATION (HONG KONG) ORDER 1995 - SECT 37

Use of flight recording systems and preservation of records

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(1) On any flight on which a flight data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder
or a combined cockpit voice recorder/flight data recorder is required by
sub-paragraph 4(4), (5), (6) or (7) of Schedule 5 to this Order to be carried
in an aeroplane, it shall always be in use from the beginning of the take-off
run to the end of the landing run.

(2) The operator of the aeroplane shall at all times, subject to the
provisions of Article 61 of this Order, preserve:

   (a)  the last 25 hours of recording made by any flight date recorder
        required by or under this Order to be carried in an aeroplane; and

   (b)  a record of not less than one representative flight, that is to say, a
        recording of a flight made within the last 12 months which includes a
        take-off, climb, cruise, descent, approach to landing and landing,
        together with a means of identifying the record with the flight to
        which it relates; and shall preserve such records for such period as
        the Governor may in a particular case direct.

(3) On any flight on which a cockpit voice recorder or a flight data recorder
or a combined cockpit voice recorder/flight data recorder is required by
paragraph 4(14) of Schedule 5 of this Order to be carried in a helicopter, it
shall always be in use from the time the rotors first turn for the purpose of
taking off until the rotors are next stopped.

(4) The operator of the helicopter shall at all times, subject to Article 61
of this Order, preserve:

   (a)  the last 8 hours of recording made by any flight data recorder
        specified at sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of Scale SS of paragraph 5 of
        Schedule 5 to this Order and required by or under this Order to be
        carried in the helicopter;

   (b)  in the case of a combined cockpit voice recorder/flight data recorder
        specified at sub-paragraph (iii) of the said Scale SS and required by
        or under this Order to be carried in a helicopter either:

        (i)    the last eight hours of recording; or

        (ii)   the last five hours of recording or the duration of the last
               flight, whichever is the greater (together hereinafter referred
               to in this
Article as the "required recording"), together with an additional period of
recording for either:

   (aa) the period immediately preceding the required recording; or

   (bb) such period or periods as the Governor may permit in any particular
        case or class of cases generally.

(5) The additional recording retained pursuant to sub-paragraphs

   (b)  (ii)(aa) and (bb) of paragraph (4) above shall, together with the
        required recording, total a period of eight hours and shall be
        retained in accordance with arrangements approved by the Governor.

(6) An approval granted by the Governor for the purposes of this Article shall
be in writing and may be subject to such conditions as the Governor thinks
fit.