Division 10Emergency locator transmitters

Division 10—Emergency locator transmitters

11.47 Carriage of ELTs

(1) Until immediately before 2 December 2023, an aeroplane for a flight must be fitted with or carry emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) in accordance with: (a) regulation 252A of CAR, and subsection 6 of Civil Aviation Order 20.11 (as it applies to ELTs), as each of those provisions is in force immediately before the commencement of this instrument; or (b) this Division. (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), if immediately before 2 December 2021 the aeroplane flight would have been: (a) classed as a charter flight—then the ELT requirements are those that would have applied to such a charter flight; and (b) classed as an RPT flight—then the ELT requirements are those that would have applied to such an RPT flight. (3) With effect from the beginning of 2 December 2023, an aeroplane must be fitted with or carry ELTs in accordance with sections 11.48 to 11.51.

11.48 ELT must be fitted or carried

An aeroplane that has the characteristics mentioned in columns 1 and 2 of an item in table 11.48, must be fitted with, or carry, at least the number and kind of ELTs mentioned in column 3 of the item.

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:94.88%; margin-left:21.3pt; border-collapse:collapse"><thead><tr style="height:19.85pt"><td colspan="4" style="border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Table 11.48—Emergency locator transmitters</span></p></td><td style="width:3.02%; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="TableHeading"><span></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:19.85pt"><td style="width:8.98%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Item</span></p></td><td style="width:25.16%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="TableHeading"><span>Column 1</span></p><p class="TableHeading"><span>Maximum certificated passenger seating capacity of the aeroplane</span></p></td><td style="width:32.34%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="TableHeading" style="margin-left:7.1pt"><span>Column 2</span></p><p class="TableHeading" style="margin-left:7.1pt; margin-bottom:3pt"><span>Date certificate of airworthiness was first issued, or date an authorisation (however described) equivalent to a certificate of airworthiness issued by the NAA of a Contracting State, was first issued</span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="TableHeading" style="margin-left:7.05pt"><span>Column 3</span></p><p class="TableHeading" style="margin-left:7.05pt"><span>ELT requirements—at least:</span></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="width:8.98%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1</span></p></td><td style="width:25.16%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Greater than 19</span></p></td><td style="width:32.34%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>After 1 July 2008</span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>2 ELTs, at least one of which must be an automatic ELT</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.98%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>2</span></p></td><td style="width:25.16%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Greater than 19</span></p></td><td style="width:32.34%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>On or before 1 July 2008</span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Either:</span></p><p class="Tabletext"><span>1 automatic ELT; or</span></p><p class="Tabletext"><span>2 ELTs</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.98%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>3</span></p></td><td style="width:25.16%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>19 or less</span></p></td><td style="width:32.34%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>After 1 July 2008</span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1 automatic ELT</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:8.98%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>4</span></p></td><td style="width:25.16%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>19 or less</span></p></td><td style="width:32.34%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>On or before 1 July 2008</span></p></td><td colspan="2" style="border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1 ELT</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="width:35.4pt"></td><td style="width:99.2pt"></td><td style="width:127.55pt"></td><td style="width:120.3pt"></td><td style="width:11.9pt"></td></tr></tbody></table>