Paragraph 12 Operations under Instrument Flight Rules — flight and navigational instruments and associated equipment – helicopters and gyroplanes

Helicopters and gyroplanes operated under Instrument Flight Rules must be equipped with a means of—

(a)

measuring and displaying the—

(i)

magnetic heading;

(ii)

time in hours, minutes and seconds;

(iii)

pressure altitude;

(iv)

indicated airspeed;

(v)

vertical speed;

(vi)

slip;

(vii)

attitude;

(viii)

stabilised heading; and

(ix)

outside air temperature;

(b)

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

(c)

preventing malfunction of the airspeed indicating system required in paragraph (a)(iv) due to condensation or icing; and

(d)

as a standby instrument, an additional means of measuring and displaying attitude.

Notes on Schedule 5

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)