Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009)

Regulations

Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011

Part 68 : Glider Pilot Licence

Subpart 1 : General

68.01.7 Logging of flight time
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(1)The holder of a glider pilot licence shall maintain a record of all his or her flight time and instruction time. Electronic logbooks may be used, provided that the electronic data is printed onto paper at least every 90 days and the printed pages are filed sequentially in a binder.

 

(2)The form and information to be contained in the logbook, referred to in subregulation (1), and the manner in which such logbook shall be maintained, are as prescribed in Document SA-CATS68.

 

(3)

(a)Entries in pilot logbooks shall be made within seven days after the completion of the flight to be recorded.
(b)Where a pilot is engaged in flight operations away from the base where the pilot logbook is kept normally, the periods specified in paragraph (a) may be extended to 48 hours after return to base.

 

(4)Pilot logbooks shall be retained by their holders for at least 60 months from the date of the last flight recorded therein.

 

(5)Flight time during which the holder of a glider pilot licence is—
(a) receiving dual instruction shall be logged as dual flight time, and shall include a record of the air exercises undertaken;
(b)the designated PIC shall be logged as PIC time.

 

(6)The holder of a student glider pilot licence may log as solo flight time only the flight time when the learner is the sole occupant of the glider.

 

(7)A glider flight instructor shall log the time spent in an glider occupying a pilot seat with access to the controls, whilst acting as a flight instructor, as flight instructor time, and may log all flight time whilst acting as such as PIC time.

 

(8)A glider flight instructor, acting as an examiner while occupying a pilot seat with access to the flight controls, may log all flight time whilst acting as such as PIC, and shall make the entry EXAMINER in the remarks column. Such time shall not be logged as night instructor time.