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Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009)

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Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011

Part 101 : Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems

Subpart 5 : UA Operations

101.05.21 Use of time

 

(1) For the purposes of reporting and recording time, Co-ordinated Universal Time shall be used and shall be expressed in hours and minutes and, when required, seconds of a 24-hour day beginning at midnight.

 

(2) A pilot shall have a timepiece synchronised with Co-ordinated Universal Time prior to operating a UAS in controlled airspace and at such other times during a flight as may be necessary.

 

(3) Wherever time is utilised in the application of data link communications, it shall be accurate to within 1 second of Co-ordinated Universal Time.

 

[Regulation 101.05.21 substituted by regulation 14(rr) of Notice No. R. 3170, GG48228, dated 17 March 2023 (Twenty-Sixth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2023)]