Paragraph 11 Operations under Visual Flight Rules — flight and navigational instruments and associated equipment – helicopters and gyroplanes

(1)

Helicopters and gyroplanes operated under Visual Flight Rules by day must be equipped with a means of measuring and displaying the—

(a)

magnetic heading;

(b)

time, in hours, minutes and seconds;

(c)

pressure altitude;

(d)

indicated airspeed; and

(e)

slip.

(2)

Helicopters and gyroplanes operated under visual meteorological conditions at night or where flight visibility below cloud is less than 1,500 metres must, in addition to the requirements of sub-paragraph (1), be equipped with—

(a)

a means of measuring and displaying attitude and stabilised heading; and

(b)

where gyroscopic instruments are installed, a means of indicating when the supply of power to those instruments is not adequate.

Notes on Schedule 5

Textual amendments

F1: Word in Sch. 5 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aviation Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/645), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 80 (with Sch. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2019/1098, regs. 1(3), 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)