The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2003
This Order further amends the Air Navigation Order 2000 (“the ANO”). In addition to a drafting amendment the following changes are made:The manner in which the CAA may issue a permit to fly or issue a certificate of validation in respect of a permit to fly issued by another state is specified. The CAA shall refuse to issue a permit to fly in respect of an aircraft if it appears that the aircraft is eligible for the issue of a certificate of airworthiness. An aircraft with a permit to fly shall not fly for the purpose of public transport or aerial work other than aerial work connected with flying displays and demonstration flights. No persons may be carried during flying display or demonstration flight other than minimum flight crew except with the permission of the CAA. With the permission of the CAA an aircraft with a permit may fly for the purpose of aerial work which consists of the giving of instruction or flying or the conduct of flying tests within a club environment. A permit to fly shall cease to be in force until the completion of an inspection, modification or maintenance mandated by the CAA. A permit aircraft must have a placard visible to its occupants stating that the aircraft has not been certificated to an international requirement. A permit aircraft may fly only by day and in accordance with the visual flight rules unless the prior permission of the CAA has been obtained (article 3).Simple engines and propellers have been fitted to some gliders thereby affording the ability to sustain flight in the absence of atmospheric lift. Such aircraft are known as self-sustaining gliders. For the avoidance of doubt, the definition of glider is amended to include self-sustaining gliders. A self-sustaining glider is not permitted to take off under its own power (article 4).All aircraft flying within the United Kingdom for the purpose of public transport and all aircraft registered in the United Kingdom flying for the purpose of public transport wherever the are, are required to be fitted with secondary surveillance radar equipment which includes a pressure altitude reporting transponder by 1st January 2004 (article 5).