The Air Navigation (Isle of Man) Order 2015

Equipment of aircraft

32.—(1) An aircraft must not be flown unless it is so equipped as to comply with the law of the country in which it is registered and as to enable lights and markings to be displayed and signals to be made all in accordance with this Order and any applied regulations.

(2) Subject to paragraph (7), an aircraft registered in the Isle of Man must (in addition to any other equipment required by this Order or any applied regulations) carry the equipment specified in paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 in the circumstances described in the second column of the Table in paragraph 4 of that Schedule.

(3) The equipment carried must—

(a) comply with the provisions of Schedule 3;

(b) except for the equipment specified in paragraph 3 of that Schedule, be of a type approved by the Department either generally or in relation to a class of aircraft or in relation to that aircraft; and

(c) be installed in a manner approved by the Department.

(4) In any particular case the Department may direct that an aircraft registered in the Isle of Man must carry such additional or special equipment or supplies as the Department may specify for the purpose of facilitating the navigation of the aircraft, the carrying out of search and rescue operations or the survival of persons carried in the aircraft.

(5) This paragraph applies to navigational equipment capable of establishing the aircraft’s position in relation to its position at some earlier time by computing and applying the resultant of the acceleration and gravitational forces acting on it.

(6) Navigational equipment to which paragraph (5) applies that is carried in an aircraft registered in the Isle of Man (whether or not in compliance with this Order or any regulations made under this Order) must—

(a) be of a type approved by the Department, either generally or in relation to a class of aircraft or in relation to that aircraft; and

(b) be installed in a manner approved by the Department.

(7) This article does not apply in relation to radio communication and radio navigation equipment except such equipment specified in Schedule 3.