Regulation 3 Specified aviation functions: duties relating to aviation

(1)

A duty of a person subject to service law is specified as an aviation function for the purposes of section 93A(3A) and (3B)^f1 of the Armed Forces Act 2006 if it is any duty—

(a)

as a member of the flight deck crew of one of Her Majesty’s ships;

(b)

to supervise, certify or carry out maintenance on an aircraft;

(c)

to authorise a military flight;

(d)

of a pilot of an aircraft during flight or when conducting a ground run;

(e)

of any other member of the crew of an aircraft during flight;

(f)

of a person on board an aircraft during flight—

(i)

to give or supervise training or to administer a test; or

(ii)

to observe a period of practice or to monitor or record the gaining of experience;

(g)

as an air traffic controller;

(h)

of an operator of a remotely-piloted aerial system in flight;

(i)

of a person in relation to the handling or use on an aircraft, or the operation on or from it, of a depth-charge launcher, firearm, mortar, rocket or torpedo;

(j)

of a person handling, or supervising the handling of, explosives being loaded onto, carried on or in, or unloaded from an aircraft;

(k)

to ensure any part of the following activities is carried out safely—

(i)

fuelling, or removing fuel from, an aircraft;

(ii)

loading cargo onto or suspending cargo from an aircraft (including securing that cargo) or unloading cargo carried by or suspended from an aircraft;

(iii)

picking up a person or cargo from an aircraft or raising a person or cargo to an aircraft;

(iv)

dropping (whether or not by parachute), lowering or projecting a person or cargo from an aircraft; or

(v)

an activity carried out in close proximity to an aircraft operating under its own power.

(2)

In this regulation “air traffic controller” means a person directing or controlling the direction of aircraft in flight, taking off, or landing.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 93A(3A) and (3B) were inserted by section 2(2)(g) of the Armed Forces Act 2016.