{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/article-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/article-47.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2870",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013",
  "path": "article/47",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Flight crew licence requirements – exception for solo flying training",
  "text": "(1) A person may act as pilot-in-command of an aircraft for the purpose of becoming qualified for the grant or renewal of a pilot’s licence or the inclusion or variation of any rating in a pilot’s licence, without being the holder of an appropriate licence granted or rendered valid under this Order, if the conditions referred to in paragraph (2) are satisfied.\n(2) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) are that—\n(a) the person is at least 16 years of age;\n(b) the person is the holder of a valid medical certificate issued by a person approved by the Governor to the effect that the person is fit to act as pilot in command;\n(c) the person complies with any conditions subject to which that medical certificate was issued;\n(d) no other person is carried in the aircraft;\n(e) the aircraft is not flying for the purpose of commercial air transport or aerial work other than aerial work which consists of giving instruction in flying or conducting flying tests; and\n(f) the person acts in accordance with instructions given by another person holding a pilot’s licence granted under this Order, being a licence which includes a flying instructor’s rating, entitling that other person to give instruction in flying the type of aircraft being flown.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 47 in force at 1.1.2014, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2870/article/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:35:08.016872+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."
}