{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2000/schedule-8/part-1/crossheading-1-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2000/schedule-8/part-1/crossheading-1-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1562",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2000",
  "path": "schedule/8/part/1/crossheading/1-1",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "1 AEROPLANE PILOTS",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Minimum age—17 years\nNo maximum period of validity\nPrivileges:\n(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the holder of the licence shall be entitled to fly as pilot in command or co-pilot of an aeroplane of any of the types or classes specified or otherwise falling within an aircraft rating included in the licence.\n(2) (a) He shall not fly such an aeroplane for the purpose of public transport or aerial work save as hereinafter provided:\n(i) he may fly such an aeroplane for the purpose of aerial work which consists of\n(aa) the giving of instruction in flying, if his licence includes a flying instructor’s rating, class rating instructor rating, flight instructor rating or an assistant flying instructor’s rating; or\n(bb) the conducting of flying tests for the purposes of this Order;\nin either case in an aeroplane owned, or operated under arrangements entered into, by a flying club of which the person giving the instruction or conducting the test and the person receiving the instruction or undergoing the test are both members;\n(ii) he may fly such an aeroplane for the purpose of aerial work which consists of:\n(aa) towing a glider in flight; or\n(bb) a flight for the purpose of dropping of persons by parachute;\nin either case in an aeroplane owned, or operated under arrangements entered into, by a club of which the holder of the licence and any person carried in the aircraft or in any glider towed by the aircraft are members.\n(b) He shall not receive any remuneration for his services as a pilot on a flight save that if his licence includes a flying instructor’s rating, a flight instructor rating or an assistant flying instructor’s rating by virtue of which he is entitled to give instruction in flying microlight aircraft or self-launching motor gliders he may receive remuneration for the giving of such instruction or the conducting of such flying tests as are specified in sub-paragraph (a)(i) in a microlight aircraft or a self-launching motor glider.\n(c) He shall not, unless his licence includes an instrument rating (aeroplane) or an instrument meteorological conditions rating (aeroplanes), fly as pilot in command of such an aeroplane:\n(i) on a flight outside controlled airspace when the flight visibility is less than 3km;\n(ii) on a special VFR flight in a control zone in a flight visibility of less than 10 km except on a route or in an aerodrome traffic zone notified for the purpose of this sub-paragraph; or\n(iii) out of sight of the surface.\n(d) He shall not fly as pilot in command of such an aeroplane at night unless his licence includes a night rating (aeroplanes) or a night qualification (aeroplanes).\n(e) He shall not, unless his licence includes an instrument rating (aeroplane), fly as pilot in command or co-pilot of such an aeroplane flying in Class A, B or C airspace in circumstances which require compliance with the Instrument Flight Rules.\n(f) He shall not, unless his licence includes an instrument rating (aeroplane) or an instrument meteorological conditions rating (aeroplanes), fly as pilot in command or co-pilot of such an aeroplane flying in Class D or E airspace in circumstances which require compliance with the Instrument Flight Rules.\n(g) He shall not fly as pilot in command of such an aeroplane carrying passengers unless within the preceding 90 days he has made three take-offs and three landings as the sole manipulator of the controls of an aeroplane of the same type or class and if such a flight is to be carried out at night and his licence does not include an instrument rating (aeroplane) at least one of those take offs and landings shall have been at night.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/397",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/777",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/264",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1628",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1628",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1628",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1562/schedule/8/part/1/crossheading/1-1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:39.811318+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}