1956-HKRS30-8-46_Part02 — Page 5

Examina. tion of radio Apparatus.

Certificate

of service- ability.

PART III.

Maintenance and overhaul of radio apparalus,

10. (1) The provisions of this regulation shall apply to aircraft stations installed in public transport aircraft.

(2) The aircraft station shall be examined at intervals in accordance with a maintenance schedule approved by the Director, and for this purpose there shall be provided by the operator of the aircraft, for the use of persons employed on the maintenance of the aircraft station, data in the form of manuals or other suitable publications, giving essential information as to the opera- tion and procedures necessary for the servicing and maintenance of the aircraft station. The examination shall extend to all accessories on board the aircraft installed to ensure the efficient working of the aircraft station and its correct tuning and shall include the bonding of the aircraft station.

(3) The place and date of every such examination and of any other examination and of any action taken to rectify defects shall be recorded and certified in a suitable book by the holder of an aircraft radio maintenance engineer's licence granted or rendered valid by the Director.

11. (1) The provisions of this regulation shall apply to flights by public transport aircraft in circumstances in which the carriage of radio equipment is prescribed by regulation 7.

(2) Except as provided by paragraph (6), no such Biglit shall be commenced unless the aircraft station is fully serviceable and has been examined and found to have been maintained in accord- ance with the maintenance schedule prescribed in paragraph (2) of regulation 10 and a certificate of serviceability in the following form, or in such other form as may be approved by the Director as suitable for the purpose, is in force-

"Aircraft Radio Station Certificate of Serviceability. Aircraft Type

Registration Marks

I hereby certify that, with the exception of the items listed below, the radio station in the above aircraft is fully serviceable and that all maintenance and examination in accordance with the approved maintenance schedule for that station has been carried out and that all adjustments and rectifications found necessary have been made and examined to my satisfaction.

(Give details, in the space below, of any unserviceabia ap- PARNELLA, If none write "na items unserviceable.")

Kigned

Aircraft Radio MaintenaLAS

Engineer: Licence Nn.

Time of izsNC

Dated at bonamen this

day of

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(3) (i) Prior to the issue of a certificate of serviceability the operator of the aircraft shall furnish such information as may be necessary to enable the aircraft radio maintenance engineer, who is to sign the certificate, to be satisfied that up to the time of issue of such certificate all maintenance and examination. required to be carried out in accordance with the approved main- tenance schedule for the aircraft station has been so carried out;

(ii) a certificate of serviceability, which shall be prepared in ink or indelible pencil, shall be issued at such periods as may be laid down in the maintenance schedule for the aircraft station;

(iii) a certificate of serviceability shall be issued by the holder of an aircraft radio maintenance engineer's licence granted or rendered valid by the Director, shall be made out in the prescribed manner and signed in duplicate, and shall come into force im- mediately after it has been issued;

(iv) one duplicate copy of a certificate of serviceability shall be carried in the aircraft and shall be kept with the journey log book of the aircraft, whenever such log book is required to be carried in the aircraft, until a further certificate is issued. The other duplicate copy of the certificate shall be retained by the operator of the aircraft and preserved by him for a minimum period of six months.

(4) A certificate of serviceability shall cease to be in force at a time when a new certificate is required to be issued in accordance with the terms of the approved maintenance schedule for the aircraft station to which it relates :

Provided that, if the aircraft station sustains a serious defect, the certificate of serviceability shall cease to be in force at the time at which such a defect occurs.

(5) For the purpose of paragraph (4) the expression "serious defeer" means such a defect as would not, in accordance with ordinary aeronautical practice, be remedied by the operating crew.