{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2000/schedule-8/part-1/crossheading-2-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2000/schedule-8/part-1/crossheading-2-1.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/2-1",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "AEROPLANE PILOTS",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Minimum age—17 years\nMaximum period of validity—5 years\nPrivileges and conditions:\n(1) Subject to any conditions specified in respect of the licence, the privileges of the holder of a Private Pilot Licence (Aeroplane) are to act, but not for remuneration, as pilot in command or co-pilot of any aeroplane specified in a class or type rating included in Part XII of the licence engaged in non-revenue flights.\n(2) (a) The licence is subject to the conditions and restrictions specified in paragraph 1.175 of JAR-FCL 1.\n(b) The holder 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(c) The holder shall not unless his licence includes 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(d) The holder 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 (aeroplane).\n(e) The holder 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 (aeroplanes) at least one of those take-offs and landing 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/2-1",
    "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."
}