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

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Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011

Part 135 : Air Transport Operations - Carriage of less than 20 passengers or cargo

Subpart 7 : Flight Operations

Division Two : Dispatch and flight release rules

135.07.31 RVSM

 

(1) An air service operator  shall  not operate in RVSM  airs pace unless such operator—
(a) is authorised to do so in its operation specification by means of an RVSM  specific approval: and
(b) complies with the requirements stipulated in regulation 91.04.31.

 

(2) An air service operator authorised to operate in an RVSM airspace shall ensure that a minimum of two  aeroplanes of each aeroplane type grouping of its fleet, have  their height-keeping performance monitored at   least once every two years or within intervals of 1 000 flight hours per aeroplane, whichever period is longer:  Provided that, if an operator's aeroplane type grouping consists of a single aeroplane, monitoring of that   aeroplane shall be accomplished within a period specified in such aircraft documentation.

 

(3) The height-keeping performance monitoring requirements specified in subregulation (2 ) may be met through the use of data obtained from any air traffic services  regional monitoring programme.

 

[Regulation 135.07.31 substituted by regulation 11 of Notice No. R. 3169, GG 48228, dated 17 March 2023 (Twenty-Fifth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2023)]