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Flight crew training in use of ACAS

11.  After article 61 insert—

Training in use of airborne collision avoidance system

61A.(1) This article applies to any aeroplane to which article 38 does not apply.

(2) In this article “an ACAS equipped flight” means a flight on which an airborne collision avoidance system is required to be carried by article 20 and Schedule 5.

(3) Before commencing an ACAS equipped flight in an aeroplane to which this article applies the commander must reasonably satisfy himself that every member of the flight crew has had the training specified in paragraph (5).

(4) No person may act as a member of the flight crew on an ACAS equipped flight in an aeroplane to which this article applies unless he has had the training specified in paragraph (5).

(5) The training referred to in paragraphs (3) and (4) is—

(a)suitable training in the operation of the airborne collision avoidance system in the aeroplane; and

(b)suitable training in the use of the procedures referred to in article 61(b).