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

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Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011

Part 121 : Air Transport Operations - Carriage on Aeroplanes of more than 19 Passengers or Cargo

Subpart 5 : Aeroplane Instruments and Equipment

121.05.1 Approval of instruments and equipment

 

(1) For the purposes of this Sub part, any reference to the initial date of a type certificate or certificate of airworthiness means the first time that type certificate or certificate of airworthiness was issued for that aircraft type.

 

(2) An air service operator shall ensure that a flight does not commence unless the instruments and equipment required under this Subpart, or otherwise installed on an aircraft are such that they will enable a flight crew to control a flight path of such aircraft, carry out any required procedural manoeuvres and observe the operating limitations of such aircraft in the expected operating conditions and are—
(a) approved and installed in accordance with the requirements, including operational and airworthiness requirements, applicable to such instruments and equipment; and
(b) in a condition for safe operation of a kind being conducted, except as provided for in MEL.

 

(3)  An air service operator shall not be required to obtain approval for—
(a) fuses referred to in regulation 91.04.2;
(b) intrinsically safe electric torches referred to in regulation 91 .04.3( 1)(d);
(c) accurate time piece referred to in regulations 91.04.4 and 91.04.5;
(d) first aid equipment referred to in regulation 91.04.16 ;
(e) megaphones referred to in regulation 91.04.24;
(f) survival equipment referred to in regulation 91.04.29; and
(g) medical equipment referred to in regulation 121.05.13.

 

(4) An agent used in a built-in fire extinguisher for each lavatory disposal receptacle for towels , paper or waste in an aeroplane which was first issued with a certificate of airworthiness on or after 31 December 2011, and an extinguishing agent used in a portable fire extinguisher in an aeroplane which was first issued with a certificate of airworthiness on or after 31 December 2016 shall—
(a) meet the applicable prescribed minimum performance requirements; and
(b) not be of a type listed in the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, as amended from time to time.

 

(5) Information regarding extinguishing agents to be used in an aeroplane is contained in Document SA-CATS 121.

 

(6) A person shall not conduct a take-off in an aeroplane with an instrument or equipment that is unserviceable or that has been removed, where such instrument or equipment is required by—
(a) the standards of airworthiness that apply to a type of flight being operated;
(b) any equipment list published by an aeroplane manufacturer indicating aeroplane equipment that is required for an intended flight;
(c) an AOC;
(d) an airworthiness directive; or
(e) this Part.

[Regulation 121.05.1(6) inserted by regulation 16(e) of Notice No. R. 3170, GG48228, dated 17 March 2023 (Twenty-Sixth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2023)]

 

[Regulation 121.05.1 substituted by regulation 32(c) of Notice No. R.1503, GG45491, dated 15 November 2021 (Twenty-First Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2021)]