Paragraph 3 Nature of test

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch 8, Pt A, Section 1, para 2 am by Air Navigation 2001 arts 2, 12
Sch 8, Pt A, s 3 rev in pt by Air Navigation 2003 art 6
Sch 8, Pt A, s 2 renumbered and am by Air Navigation 2002 arts 2, 9(2)
Sch 8, Pt A am by Air Navigation 2002 arts 2, 3(1), (7)
Sch 8, Pt B am by Air Navigation 2002 arts 2, 3(1), (8), (9)
Sch 8, Pt C am by Air Navigation 2002 arts 2, 3(1), (10)

The appropriate test referred to in paragraph 2 above shall be:

(a)

in the case of a test which entitles the holder of the licence of which the certificate forms part to act as pilot in command and/or co-pilot of aircraft of the type, types or class specified in the certificate, a test of the pilot’s competence to fly the aircraft as pilot in command and/or co-pilot and shall, where the CAA so specifies in respect of the whole or part of a test, be conducted in an aircraft in flight or by means of a flight simulator approved by the CAA;

(b)

in the case of a test which entitles the holder of the licence of which the certificate forms part to act as flight engineer of aircraft of the type specified in the certificate, a test of the flight engineer’s competence to perform duties of a flight engineer in the type of aircraft to be used on the flight and shall, where the CAA specifies in respect of the whole or part of the test, be conducted in an aircraft in flight or by means of a flight simulator approved by the CAA;

(c)

in the case of a test which entitles the holder of the licence of which the certificate forms part to perform the functions to which a flying instructor’s rating (gyroplanes), an assistant flying instructor’s rating (gyroplanes) or an instrument meteorological conditions rating (aeroplanes) relates, a test of his ability to perform the functions to which the rating relates and shall, where the CAA so specifies in respect of the whole or part of the test, be conducted in an aircraft in flight.