Last Updated: 15 January 2013

[CIA 13,525] Use of flight data recorder125 

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(1) On any flight on which a flight data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder is required by these Regulations to be carried in an aircraft, it shall always be in use from the beginning of taxiing for take-off through to the parking of the aircraft at the completion of the flight.

[subreg (1) am LN 82 of 2009 reg 64, effective 6 February 2010]

(2) The operator of such aircraft shall at all times, subject to the provisions of these Regulations, preserve—
  • (a)the last 25 hours of recording made by any flight data recorder required by or under these Regulations to be carried in an aircraft; and
  • (b)a record of not less than one representative flight, that is to say, a recording of a flight made within the last 12 months which includes a take-off, climb, cruise, descent, approach to landing and landing, together with a means of identifying the record with the flight to which it relates,

and shall preserve such records for such period as the Authority may, in a particular case, direct.