{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2000/schedule-8/part-1/crossheading-1-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2000/schedule-8/part-1/crossheading-1-3.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/1-3",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "3 BALLOON AND AIRSHIP 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 of any type of balloon or airship on which he is so qualified and which is specified in an aircraft rating in the licence and co-pilot of any type of balloon or airship specified in such a rating.\n(2) (a) He shall not fly such a balloon or airship for the purpose of public transport or aerial work, other than aerial work which consists of the giving of instruction in flying or the conducting of flying tests in either case in a balloon or airship 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(b) He shall not receive any remuneration for his services as a pilot on a flight other than remuneration for the giving of such instruction or the conducting of such flying tests as are specified in sub-paragraph (a).\n(c) He shall not fly such a balloon unless he has within the immediately preceding 13 months carried out as pilot in command in a free balloon 5 flights each of not less than 5 minutes duration.",
  "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/1-3",
    "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."
}