The Air Navigation Order 2016

PART 1 Information and Instructions which must be included in an Operations Manual

1.  Information and instructions relating to the following matters must be included in an operations manual—

(a) The number of the crew to be carried in the aircraft, on each stage of any route to be flown.

(b) The respective capacities in which the crew members are to act.

(c) Instructions as to the order and circumstances in which command is to be assumed by members of the crew.

(d) The respective duties of each member of the crew and the other members of the operating staff.

(e) The scheme referred to in article 175(1).

(f) Such technical detailed information concerning the aircraft, its engines and equipment and concerning the performance of the aircraft as may be necessary to enable the flight crew of the aircraft to perform their respective duties.

(g) The manner in which the quantities of fuel and oil to be carried by the aircraft are to be computed and records of fuel and oil carried and consumed on each stage of the route to be flown are to be maintained (and the instructions must take account of all circumstances likely to be encountered on the flight, including the possibility of failure of one or more of the aircraft engines).

(h) The manner in which the quantity, if any, of oxygen and oxygen equipment to be carried in the aircraft for the purpose of complying with Scale L1 or L2 in Part 1 of Schedule 6 is to be computed.

(i) The check system to be followed by the crew of the aircraft before and on take-off, on landing and in an emergency, so as to ensure that the operating procedures contained in the operations manual and in the flight manual or performance schedule for the aircraft are complied with.

(j) The circumstances in which a radio watch is to be maintained.

(k) The circumstances in which oxygen is to be used by the crew of the aircraft, and by passengers.

(l) Subject to paragraph 2, communication, navigational aids, aerodromes, local regulations, in-flight procedures, approach and landing procedures and such other information as the operator considers necessary for the proper conduct of flight operations (which must be contained in a route guide, which may be in the form of a separate volume).

(m) The reporting in flight to the notified authorities of meteorological observations.

(n) Subject to paragraph 2, the minimum altitudes for safe flight on each stages of the route to be flown (which must not be lower than any which may be applicable under the law of the United Kingdom or of the countries whose territory is to be flown over) and any planned diversion from that route.

(o) The required information referred to in article 131(2).

(p) Emergency flight procedures, including procedures for the instruction of passengers in the position and use of emergency equipment and procedures to be adopted when the pilot in command of the aircraft becomes aware that another aircraft or a vessel is in distress and needs assistance.

(q) In the case of aircraft intended to fly at an altitude of more than 49,000 feet the procedures for the use of cosmic radiation detection equipment.

(r) The labelling and marking of dangerous goods, the manner in which the dangerous goods must be loaded on or suspended beneath an aircraft, the responsibilities of members of the crew for the carriage of dangerous goods and the action to be taken in the event of emergencies arising involving dangerous goods.

(s) Such detailed information about any permission granted to the operator under article 78(3) as may be necessary to enable the pilot in command of the aircraft to determine whether article 69(8)(b) can be complied with.

(t) Procedures for the operation of any airborne collision avoidance system carried on the aircraft.

(u) The establishment and maintenance of an accident prevention and flight safety programme.

(v) In the case of a helicopter, the maximum approved passenger seating configuration.

2.  In relation to any flight which is not one of a series of flights between the same two places and to the extent that it is not practicable to comply with sub-paragraphs 1(l) and 1(n), it is sufficient if the manual contains such information and instructions as will enable the equivalent data to be ascertained before take-off.