Regulations > Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011 > Part 127 : Commercial Helicopter Operations: Passengers Cargo and Mail > Subpart 8 : Helicopter Performance Operating Limitations > Division Four : Class 3 Helicopter

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

Regulations

Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011

Part 127 : Commercial Helicopter Operations: Passengers Cargo and Mail

Subpart 8 : Helicopter Performance Operating Limitations

Division Four : Class 3 Helicopter

127.08.10 General

(1)	The operator of a Class 3 helicopter shall ensure that operations are only conducted in conditions of weather and light, and from those aerodromes and over such routes and diversions therefrom, which will permit a safe forced landing to be executed in the event of a power unit failure.

(2)	A Class 3 helicopter shall not be permitted to operate from elevated heliports in built-up urban areas.

(3)

The operator of a Class 3 helicopter, carrying passengers, shall not operate such helicopter under IMC or above more than three eighths of clouds within a radius of five nautical miles of the helicopter, unless the latest weather reports or forecasts, or any combination of them, indicate that the weather along the planned route, including take-off and landing, with due regard for the provision of regulation 127.08.12, allows flight under VFR under an existing ceiling at prescribed minimum heights established in terms of regulation 127.07.6, and that the weather is forecast to remain so until at least one hour after the estimated time of arrival at the destination aerodrome or alternate aerodrome.