The Air Navigation Order 2009 (revoked)

Flight crew licence requirement – Exception for balloons U.K.

55.—(1) A person may act as pilot in command of a balloon within the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, without being the holder of an appropriate licence granted or rendered valid under this Order if the conditions in paragraph (2) are satisfied.

(2) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) are that—

(a) the person is the holder of an appropriate licence granted or rendered valid under this Order in all respects save that the person has not within the immediately preceding 13 months carried out as pilot in command at least five flights each of not less than five minutes duration;

[F1 (b) the person acts in accordance with instructions given by a person authorised by the CAA to supervise flying in the type of balloon being flown (“the instructor”);]

[F1 (c) no person is carried other than the instructor unless the instructor is carried and is the holder of an appropriate licence granted or rendered valid under this Order entitling the instructor to act as pilot in command for the flight; and]

(d) the balloon is not flying for the purpose of commercial air transport, public transport or aerial work other than aerial work which consists of the giving of instruction in flying or the conducting of flying tests.

Textual Amendments

F1 Art. 55(2)(b)(c) substituted (10.8.2012) by The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1751), arts. 1(2), 63(1)