{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2007/schedule-6/crossheading-aeroplane-pilots",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2007/schedule-6/crossheading-aeroplane-pilots.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3468",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2007",
  "path": "schedule/6/crossheading/aeroplane-pilots",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "MINIMUM AGE, PERIOD OF VALIDITY, PRIVILEGES",
  "heading": "AEROPLANE PILOTS",
  "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 or co-pilot of an aeroplane of any of the types specified or otherwise falling within an aircraft rating included in the licence.\n(2) He shall not fly such an aeroplane for the purpose of commercial air transport or aerial work save as provided below—\n(a) he may fly such an aeroplane for the purpose of aerial work which consists of—\n(i) the giving of instruction in flying, if his licence includes a flying instructor’s rating; or\n(ii) the conducting of flying tests for the purposes of this Order;\nin either case in an aeroplane 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 may fly such an aeroplane for the purpose of aerial work which consists of—\n(i) towing a glider in flight; or\n(ii) a flight for the purpose of dropping of persons by parachute;\nin either case in an aeroplane owned, or operated under arrangements entered into, by a club of which the holder of the licence and any person carried in the aircraft or in any glider towed by the aircraft are members.\n(3) He shall not receive any remuneration for his services as a pilot on a flight save that if his licence includes a flying instructor’s rating by virtue of which he is entitled to give instruction in flying microlight aircraft or self-launching motor gliders he may receive remuneration for the giving of such instruction or the conducting of such flying tests as are specified in paragraph (2)(a)(i) in a microlight aircraft or a self-launching motor glider.\n(4) He shall not, unless his licence includes an instrument 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 3 km;\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(5) He shall not fly as pilot-in-command of such an aeroplane at night unless his licence includes a night rating (aeroplanes).\n(6) He shall not, unless his licence includes an instrument rating (aeroplanes), fly as pilot-in-command or co-pilot of such an aeroplane flying in Class A, B or C airspace in circumstances which require compliance with the Instrument Flight Rules.\n(7) He shall not, unless his licence includes an instrument 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(8) He 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 and if such a flight is to be carried out at night and his licence does not include an instrument rating (aeroplane) at least one of those take-offs and landings shall have been at night.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/237",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3468/schedule/6/crossheading/aeroplane-pilots",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:39:48.593168+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."
}